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THE CULTIVATOR—N.QV. 1835. 
TO IMPROVE THE SOIL, AND THE MIND._ 
REPORT of the COMMITTEE ON FARM IMPLEMENTS, &c. 
The Committee examined five Threshing Machines. 
1. “ Lane’s patent rail-way horse power threshing machine,” 
presented by D. Roberts, and manufactured at Waterford, Sarato¬ 
ga county. ' The proprietor alledges that one horse will thresh 75 
bushels of wheat in 8 hours, attended by four men ; that when the 
horse walks 2j miles per hour, the cylinder, or thresher, revolves 
1,200 times per minute. Price of the machine $150. For sale by 
Charles Down and others, at Waterford. The horse power is on 
the principle of the endless chain, and the power is imparted to 
the thresher by means of a band. The four arms of the thresher 
are cast iron, with wrought iron teeth. The wheel disbands when 
the motion is obstructed by a stone or other hard body. The 
horse treads upon iron rollers. 
2. “ Shaw’s patent threshing machine,” one horse power- 
price $75—alledged by the proprietor to thresh 80 bushels of 
wheat in 8 hours, attended by four men and a boy. The machine 
occupies 8 by 2i feet and is moved by straps. The horse moves 
in a circle. ”A wheel and strap are affixed to each one of the 
axes of the threshing cylinder, which equalizes the motion. The 
cylinder has four arms of wood, and the teeth are secured in them 
by wood screws—length of the arm 18 inches—supposed to re¬ 
volve 1,400 times in a minute. Wolverton, Barney and Hart, of 
Albany, proprietors for the counties of Albany, Schoharie, Sarato¬ 
ga, Rensselaer and Montgomery. 
3. “ Pitts’ patent horse power, and threshing machine,” con¬ 
structed on principles somewhat similar to No. I—2 horse power. 
The horses tread abreast upon wood, and the legs are prevented 
from sagging by a series of what the inventors call “ surface rolls.” 
The cost is $125—the fourth of which is for the thresher ; will thresh 
100 bushels wheat in 8 hours, attended by three men and a boy— 
4,000 bushels of grain have been threshed without any repairs. 
This machine is manufactured at Waterford and Buffalo. 
2. “ Gleason’s patent threshing machine, with Baker’s horse 
power” —one horse power upon the chain principle—price $150. 
The horse travels upon wood. Machine is said to have threshed 
275 bushels of cats in nine hours, with two horses to relieve each 
other. The frames of the horse power and machine were of cast 
iron, admirably adapted to combine strength and lightness! 
The first weighing 350, and the latter 180 lbs.—manufactured at 
Waterford. 
5. “ Burr all’s new combination threshing machine,” presented 
by the inventor, Thos. D. Burrall, who resides at Geneva, Ontario 
county—price from 35 to 45 dollars, without horse power ; of ma¬ 
chine and four horse power $125 ; do. do. two horse power $100. 
The larger machine requires six hands to attend it, and wdll thresh 
200 bushels wheat in 8 hours ; the smaller, with four hands, will 
thresh 100 bushels in the same time. Cylinder 14 inches in dia¬ 
meter : 2 h feet long, and performs from 1,200 to 1,300 revolutions 
in a minute. Have threshed from 10 to 20,000 bushels of grain 
without repair. This machine differs from most machines, ill be¬ 
ing so contrived as to separate the grain, principally, from the 
straw, in the process of threshing, as threshers and screens alter¬ 
nate in the bed piece, which may be varied at pleasure ; threshes 
all kinds of grain. As the committee could only examine the 
machines, and saw but the momentary action of the three first nam¬ 
ed, they cannot safely give opinions as to their absolute or com¬ 
parative merits ; they appeared all to be substantial and useful la¬ 
bor-saving machines, entitled to public notice and patronage. 
Corn cultivators. 
1. “ Van Bergen’s Corn Cultivator,” (Coxsackie) presented 
by C. N. Bement. The sides expandable in parallel lines so as 
to be adapted to spaces between rows of different breadths, and 
the shares may be adjusted to turn the earth in or out. A new im¬ 
plement, and apparently a good one, drawn by a horse. Price$15. 
2. Bement’s expanding Corn Cultivator. —C. N. Bement, of 
Albany, proprietor and inventor. The improvement on the com¬ 
mon cultivator consists in a wheel and clevis, by which the depth 
may be regulated by double pointed shares, and two scarilyers in¬ 
serted between the shares. Expandible from 18 to 36 inches.— 
Price $. 
The utility of the Cultivator in dressing corn and oilier hoed 
crops, in saving a vast amount of manual labor, in almost super¬ 
seding the hand hoe, and in doing the work better than the plough, 
in most cases, induces the committee to recommend them to the 
general notice of our farmers. [See the common corn cultivator 
figured in the June number of the Cultivator.] 
Drill Barrows and Corn Planters. 
1. ’ Bement’s Turnip Drill. —C. N. Bement, of Albany, pro¬ 
prietor.—A hand barrow for drilling turnips—price $8, and an 
extra cylinder, adopted to sowing peas, mangel wurtzel, &c. for 
an additional 50 cents. [This is a modification of the drill bar- 
row figured in the June number of the Cultivator.] 
2. Burr all’s Corn Planter —for one horse, arranged to plant 
corn in hills or drills, at any required distance, and to regulate 
the quantity of seed. A nose piece levels the ground, a coulter 
opens the drills, into which the seed passes through a conducter 
close to the coulter—two teeth cut the little side furrows made by 
the drill, and throw the mould over the seed—a wheel follows to 
press the ground upon it,—and a scraper cleans the wheel of dirt. 
Invented by T. D. Burrall, Geneva.—Price 16 to 18 dollars. This 
is an ingeniously contrived and useful machine, altogether new to 
us, and promises to be of great utility, not only in planting corn, 
peas and beans, but under simple and cheap modifications, in 
drilling in small grains. 
3. Bobbin’s Corn Planter and Turnip Drill. —invented by Mr. 
Robbins, of Lewis county, and presented by C. N. Bement. It 
drills six different kinds of grain—has been some time in use, and 
is highly approved. Price $15. 
The drill barrow is of modern introduction among us, and is a 
valuable labor saving machine, particularly in the cultivation of 
ruta baga, turnips, mangel wurtzel, &c. The drilling of small 
grains is much practised in Europe, and with the introduction of 
these implements, the practice may be found to be advantageous 
here, as it affords the advantage of keeping the crop free from 
weeds, and of keeping the surface of the ground loose.—In the 
turnip culture, which is now fast gaining a footing among us, the 
drill barrow is almost an indispensible implement. 
Straw" Cutter. 
Green’s Straw Cutter, presented by C. N. Bement, was the 
only implement of this kind exhibited. It is a hand crank power. 
It is 5 feet long by 2t feet wide. It has 12 knives, 8 inches long, 
on a 4 inch cylinder, and works upon a cylinder or roller of lead 
—will deliver two bushels of cut hay per minute—feeds itself, and 
may be managed by a stout boy. Price, highly finished, $30.— 
The committee do not hesitate to recommend this as the most com¬ 
plete and perfect implement of the kind which has come under 
their notice. [Figured in the Oct. number of the Cultivator.] 
Clover Machine. 
Burrall’s Clover Machine, invented and presented by D. T. 
Burrall, appears to be a very perfect machine. It may be propel¬ 
led by a two or four horse or water power, and with the attend¬ 
ance of a man will clean from 16 to 32 quarts of seed in an hour. 
The current of air created by the motion of the cylinder, with its 
serrated teeth, is made to perform the winnowing process in the 
upper half, or simi-eircle of the machine—the chaff being thrown 
off, and the seed tailing into a box beneath, while the clover heads 
or hulls, are whipped out in the lower half. No seed is apparently 
wasted, and all resisting bodies are readily thrown out without in¬ 
juring the machine. The proprietor asserts it to be the only ma¬ 
chine which separates the seed from the hull without rubbing, 
heat or waste, at a single operation. Price $60. 
The highly profitable practice, in improved husbandry, of alter¬ 
nating clover and other grasses with tillage crops, and the conse¬ 
quent increasing demand for seed, renders every improvement in 
the process of cleaning clover seed a public benefit. The com¬ 
mittee recommended this machine, with strong confidence, to the 
public patronage. 
Stump Extractor. 
Burr all’s Stump Extractor, invented by D. T. Burrall, is of 
cast iron, about two feet square. It is a combination of power af¬ 
forded by the screw, lever and wheel. Mounted on an axle and 
wheel, one horse, operating on a ten foot lever, will raise 25 tons. 
Price $80. 
Harrow. 
TI e only one exhibited was a pair of <c Craig’s Scotch angled 
