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REAPING MACHINE, 
PATENTED BY 
HORACE Xjs* EMBRY, 
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Such has been the condition of the people of 
our country,that in many portions of it,manual 
labor has been found inadequate to the task of 
harvesting grains and grasses in proper time 
and manner, while in all sections, the cost of 
manual labor, where to be had, has often been 
too expensive for profitable farming. 
These facts have caused hundreds of think¬ 
ing minds, for some years past, to turn their 
attention to the subject of substituting other 
more expeditious, as also cheaper methods of 
effecting the same. 
As the muscular power of the horse is 
known to be equal to that of seven men, while 
the cost per day for boarding and employing a 
horse is only equal to that of one man, this 
source has been looked to as the most fea¬ 
sible. 
With what success, it is only necessary to re¬ 
fer to the late Exhibition and and Trial of Mow¬ 
ing, Reaping and Threshing Machinery, under 
the direction of the committee of the State 
Agricultural Society at Geneva, where were 
collected the finally successful results of the 
experiments of years by hundreds of minds. 
With all this before us, whoever now at¬ 
tempts the construction of Agricultulfural 
machinery for the above purposes, must be 
blind indeed to make an unsuccessful attempt 
in constructing machines for either of the 
above classes of farm labor. 
Therefore, the subscriber, not only having 
made himself practically acquainted with the 
construction and working of all the successful 
machines of this class, but having made and 
successfully introduced several valuable im¬ 
provements in some of the above classes of 
machinery, which have already gained favor¬ 
able and world-wide reputation and adoption, 
flatters himself that he has also made an im¬ 
provement in.the construction of a Mower and 
Reaper of equal if not greater merit, than any 
of his former improvements. 
It will suffice to say, that while this is the- 
most compact, light, simple, cheap, durable, 
easy working machine, it is at the same time 
the most perfectly adjustable, portable and 
easily convertible into a Mower or Reaper, 
working as perfectly in either form as those of 
the best other kinds, whether simple or com¬ 
bined. 
The main wheel being 40 inches in diameter, 8 
inches face; the whole contains but one gear 
and pinion, and that an internal one. The 
frame itself is so suspended' upon the axis of 
the main wheel, as to be elevated and depress¬ 
ed at pleasure, so as to secure a horizontal or 
inclined (forward or back) position of the whole 
machine, at whatever elevation used, thus al¬ 
ways having the cutting works in proper posi¬ 
tion. 
In reaping, a reel is used, and the raker 
stands erect, face forward, and directy behind 
the center of the platform, with a support 
about him ; the movable platform being on 
the same plane with the frame-work at 
the side of the discharge, and at ■ the same 
time about two inches above the stubble. 
With the above introduction, and the di¬ 
rections and diagrams to follow, together 
with those in this number of the Cultivator, 
and also with prices, terms of sale, warranty, 
&c., which will appear in next month’s papers, 
the public will have before them the several 
machines from which to maks a selection be¬ 
fore purchasing for the coming season, and at 
the same time know what they are purchasing, 
much better than to be guided alone by imprac¬ 
ticably written and published reports of com¬ 
mittees of public trials. 
As this is the age of humbug, it becomes 
every purchaser to look well to his dollars before 
parting with them for that which will prove 
worse than useless, and purchase only such 
articles as have their practical as well as theo¬ 
retical merits plainly pointed out, or if not so 
pointed out, to purchase only of responsible 
manufacturers, who are willing to back their 
machines by their reputation and capital. 
For further particulars concerning the Reap¬ 
er and Mower above described, address 
HORACE L. EMERY, 
( Care of Emery & Co., Albany, N. Y.) 
