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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



the little evergreen, commonly called the ground 

 ivy. The leaf is gathered and dried before the 

 fire until it can be pounded, when a table spoon- 

 ful is mixed with an equal quantity of slacked 

 lime, and the swelling, having been laid open to 

 the bone, the mixture is laid in the wound, and 



kept in place by a bandage. Mr. Terrill says, 

 that he has used it himself, and that he has 

 known it frequently used by others, and that, in 

 no instance, has the first application failed to 

 effect a cure. A specimen of the plant may be 

 seen at our office. 



M'COR MICK'S REAPING MACHINE 



b. The fingers. 



d. The canvass for saving the grain, 

 n. The small ground wheel on the offside. 

 n. The platform on which the cut grain is de- 

 posited. 



h. The band which drives the reel. 



J. A screw by which the reel is raised, and 

 the band tightened. 



g. A part of the tongue. 



L. One of the ribs of the reel. 



o. The fly wheel, to the crank of which the 

 driver of the blade is attached. 



S s. Braces for the off reel post. 



t. The main ground wheel, which is shown 

 in two other places. 



It is not often that we present our readers with 

 an engraving as complicated and difficult of 

 comprehension, as any drawing of any such 



machine must, necessarily, be ; but the univer- 

 sal popularity of this Reaper, and its extreme 

 importance to the grain growing community, 

 have induced us to tax the ingenuity of our 

 readers in the engraving more than is our wont. 

 We have published several testimonials of its 

 value heretofore, but, within the last few weeks, 

 we have had the model at our office, and held 

 personal conversations with gentlemen who have 

 had it in use. We had entertained fears that 

 any machine for reaping grain, that did its work 

 well, would be of too complicated a nature for 

 the mechanical skill of a farmer, and too delicate 

 for the racking which hauling over rough ground 

 would necessarily produce ; but an inspection of 

 the model, and the testimony of others, satisfied 

 us that the ingenuity of Mr. M'Cormick has 

 overcome both of these cTifficulties. Mr. Wm. 



