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COTIN STALK CUTTERS, 
FOR 
HA1D OB, HORSE POWER. 
Plate VI. 
§ 88 . For corn stalks and coarse material, it has been found necessary to have an open 
cutting cylinder, and with independent flexible feeding rollers to accommodate themselves 
to the kind as well as quantity of stalks, &c., in the feeding hopper. (See plate, No. 00.) 
§ 89. The knives of the most approved kind are attached to arms or heads which are 
fixed upon a shaft, and they are made with cylindrical and spirally formed cutting edges 
and nicely adjusted so their edges shall, in revolving pass in contact with a straight strong 
cast steel bed or dead knife, which is set permanently at the mouth of the hopper, and as the 
feeding rollers advance the stalks in the same ratio of velocity as that of the knives, the 
stalks are cut at all speeds of a uniform length. 
This length is usually | to \ inch with four knives, by taking off two of the knives double 
length, and if three knives he removed four times the length will he cut. 
All machines of this class are constructed with pullies for Horse Power as well as with 
cranks for hand use. 
As this kind of work requires great strength as well as high velocity of the knives to ac¬ 
complish much work, the cost of the machine is considerably greater than simple Hay 
Cutters for hand use. 
These Machines, however, are very way well adapted for feeding both horses and other 
stock, as they can cut long or short, and for hay and straw as well as corn stalks, &.c. 
§ 90. A pair of grating cylinders is attached and furnished when desired similar to 
those used in a hand cider mill, between which the cut stalks pass and are at one and the 
same operation ground fine, making the hardest and coarsest material into the most palatable 
feed for any stock. 
§ 91. Each Machine is furnished with a crank for hand use, and the iron balance 
wheel forms the band pulley and is upon the knife shaft, thus avoiding any gearing in 
cutting, and using the gearing only for the feeding roller—the whole cutting works are in¬ 
closed to avoid accident and prevent the cut feed from flying about, also delivering it 
through a spout into a basket if desired. No machine has given so general satisfaction. 
§ 92. These machines are worth from thirty to thirty-five dollars, and with the grater 
attachment, ten dollars extra. Weight of machine, 250 to 300 pounds. 
No other machine has been made which will accomplish anything near the same amount 
of work at less than fifty to sixty dollars, and none excel it now at any price. 
CORN SHELLERS, 
FOR 
HORSE, STEAM OR WATER POWER. 
Plate IX. 
There is probably no better Power Sheller in use than the Horizontal Cylinder, as repre¬ 
sented in plate. . 
$ 93 . These Machines have recently been greatly improved m capacity, and by substituting 
wrought iron in place of cast, greater strength and lightness have been gained. Although 
before the improvement they were superior to any in market, they now defy competition. 
It operates with astonishing rapidity, often shelling fifteen hundred bushels of shelled corn 
per day, of ten hours, with Emery’s Two Horse Power, and shelling perfectly clean and 
separating the cobs without breaking them. 
The ears are fed into the Hopper from a basket or shovel, as shown in the engraving, so as 
always to keep it full; the shelled corn falls under the Machine, while the cobs are dis¬ 
charged at the opposite end. 
The aperture through which the cobs are discharged has a slide, by which it may be 
enlarged or contracted to increase or retard the passage of the cobs, so they may not escape 
until entirely clear of corn. 
The shelling is performed by the action of a Cylinder about six feet long and one foot in 
diameter, armed with curved rows of short stout steel teeth, revolving rapidly in contact 
with the ears of corn, agitating them violently against each other and the iron concave, 
which incloses and confines the ears upon the rising and upper side of the Cylinder (without 
pinching them against a shelling bar or grate), quickly removing the corn to the last kernel 
without breaking the corn or tearing the cobs. 
The rows of teeth are so formed upon the Cylinder that they, together with the weight of 
corn in the Hopper of the Machine, cause a continuous forward progress of the cobs towards 
the discharging end during the operation of shelling. 
§ 94. The weight is from three hundred and fifty to five hundred pounds. Cubic measure 
about twenty-two feet. Price No. 1, $100; No, 2, $-55. 
