the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. 
Hay-Loaders. 
An important addition to the mechanical contrivances already in use for 
the harvesting of hay is Faust's Hayloader, manufactured by Stratton and 
Cullum, Meadville, Pa. This novelty was subjected to a rather severe trial, 
which was perfectly successful ; indeed, I have seldom met with a machine 
that so entirely came up to expectation and description as this. Like 
most successful inventions, it is very simple, comprising a revolving barrel, 
with teeth somewhat curved at the points. The English reader can best 
realise the form of the machine by imagining a haymaker with backward 
action, the hay carried round by the tines being placed upon an elevator made 
up of cross laths and longitudinal wires. The front portion of the machine is 
supported on wooden tressels, but only whilst being moved. The following 
drawings give a good idea of the construction and utility of the machine. 
Fig. 28. — View of FousVs Hay-Loader. 
Fig. 29. — Foitsfs Hay-Loader in operation. 
Fig. 28 shows it detached. Fig. 29 represents the connection of the loader 
with the tail of the waggon. Nothing can be simpler, and, provided the hay 
is left in windrow, nothing more successful. So clean is the picking up 
when the surface is tolerably level, that I have no doubt it might be used 
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