Show it lil ill co 11 C TItI TRIAL ALOF OF HEARERS ax N Y july 19 1800 isdo thab b has been today to today day on 6 c of tile fife r most interesting trials of reapers readers that I 1 I 1 ever witnessed ed and aud perhaps most sp ever over ninde made in this country it took place un uh the f farm irm of or william sheldon in the town of sennett bennett about six miles eist east of auburn the tho nield field selected iq 14 a hill side of varied inclination covered wit with it a pretty heavy growth of wheat par partly ti y mediterranean and partly red ella clia chaff ft white wheat A good deal of the mediterranean is much tangled and some of it as flat as though it had been rolled down it was also aiso grown so full of grass that tile the bottom of the gavels garvels was quite green and adhered closely together in addition to these several tl things lins to make mako the cutting difficult a severe rain rain of an hour and moderate of longer duration had llad fallen the elay day before to soften the ground and the straw yet all these difficulties difficult les ies were encountered and completely overcome by every machine on the ground the most tangled ivl wheat tyl leat icat was cut by some of the machines as iund and close as though it had stood upright and not oneff them failed to go through it without breaking and but row few of them cio clo clogged ged so as to have to stop and back and start arlew anew so far as cutting grain r 1 n under the worst possible circumstances n c c s that can be conceived Is a matter of interest this day has settled the question of doing it by ba machinery I 1 have seen a dozen diff different lerent readers reapers id cut it wheat this d day ay that could not be cul cui cut cui with a cradle that could only be cut with the po point int of a scythe at very hiow slow speed that tha a man with a sie sickle kle kie would have had to cut a few stalks at a time while he was upon his knees yet this grain ii bieh bich could not except with the greatest difficulty have been ent by hand was most rapidly vapidly cut by machinery the horses homes moving nt tit the same pace they did in the standing wheat and most of them gathering it equally clean this fact in regard to readers reapers has been long known to those who wiio maud muc them and to those who have had llad most experience in it their use but it is not known to many people who have not been familiar with these C great laborsaving labor saving 0 farm implements 1 but the tile most hite hitt interesting resting part of the experiment toda to dat da wi not to prove that such wheat could bo be cut ap by N machinery it was hofto how to dino dipo of it afterward nid niu the great question now to be solved is hawco how to put the grain grant into a avels aveis ready for far the binder bentler ili in the very best be st lum ima possible sible manner it is not a question betwee ff self seif and hand that point to my mind is settled I 1 would as soon go ba backward to the first hussey inick mick or manning machine as they were originally nally built as to recommend any farmer to purchase a reaper for which the grain must be raked by hand yet such is 1 the inveterate old of some farmers that I 1 have heard one of them upon this neld held today to day holding an art argument in favor of han hand d raking 4 in answer to the tilo objection that it ift required an extra lland hand to do the work which a self machine could do in less time lie he replied that hoaas ho was in the habit habitor of driving and raking without any assistance and he was perfectly satisfied with that operation upon further inquiry I 1 ascertained that he was the owner of in an old style hussey machine and I 1 presume he could cut cutt about one third as much grain in idi iday a day aa as one 0 dt these reapers readers now antwork at rork vork while he would expend as much horse and manual labor to put three acres in b bundles bundies as a good seif self raker ends upon nine acres yet standing lere lore here with eyes and cars open he wll wil will wiil argue in favor of a hand raking machin machine to harvest wheat it is I 1 suppose su to accommodate this class elass of farmers who still cling to ideas that belong to a rosai fos ros RI ferous age that manufacturers of or reapers readers continue to make them thorn without a seif self ram attachment i k r I 1 under understand sand sana that th the tho new now revenue law exempts reapers readers from tax tak atlon I 1 think congress has madet badet mistake it should have havo lave made madea a dis crimination in favor of or those which rake the grain from the platform by 7 the same power that cuts il it any mau mao who will build or use a hand rake upon a reaping machine ought to bo be until ho no acquired more sense the work of this day has proved that wheat in every condition that is ever r likely to occur upon any andall and all ail farms can ean be cut by nin nia machines chines not by any particular one for here liere are aro represent atiles of all the prominent kinds shiely have reputation enough to dare enten enter the lists of such a trial as the present and all have shown today to day the per perfect recta ability to cut up hill and down talcut to cut with atan at an inclination of 30 0 od degrees egrets to the right or left as thick and stout as it ift ever grows upon this rich wheat soil or as in spots over kno knoll ils lis 37 very thin and and short or in it other spots L q f in the ther worst tangie tangle I 1 ever saw and all ali this variety was encountered in every of the neld held and yet not diio one I 1 machine failed to do tilo the work satis factory to the committee and also to a great concourse of off intelligent i eruti mizing and critical nar far farmers 1 it is true that some machines both bolh in cutting and reaping did the v ork lork L some I 1 what better than othera and apparent I 1 ly easier to man and beast yet yei nonet failed broke stuck nor had to back baek down nor back out oft of any of the tests put upon them and some of were more severe than would ever be bo required in practical operations upon the farm I 1 farmers in putting a reaper hito a wheat neld held have always supposed that it wasa was a preliminary necessity to send a cradler cradier forward to open thomay the tho way that idea is exploded while waiting nor for a cradler to euta cuta cut a path through this heid held mr A r osborne mounted upon a self raking kirby said allow ballow me to do that job and I 1 will pay mr sheldon Shel shei donfon donfor fon for all the tiie wheat I 1 waste by trampling of the horses go ahead then and he pushed boldly in went through and turned back and picked uj up every straw the horses had broken down this new feature in reaping was hailed balled with ac by the crowd and produced some little jealousy on the part of some rival machines whose owners ownen declared that they could I 1 have hame it ve done d one the samo same thing thin quite as well no doubt of it aud and so can many of us do other things very well weli when we have learned how A good many other things leavo been an and d will bo be lc arned learned durin during these thes two weeks the scene of operations today to day has been one of animated and leau beau ticul rural pictures lectures exhibited to any ani any other thousand actors and spectators it should have been photographed from a stand upon tile tiie opposite hill side sidd tak tall in ing in it the valley pasture upon chic chichy i were numerous carriages several 0 o 4 them containing handsomely drass dressed dressea ej ladies and also a constantly movin 9 panorama of men and horses in this foreground too were numerous ful fui shade trees the chestnuts in full fall bloom flocks of sheep and cows and numerous picturesque crooked ram denees fences while tho the wheat neld nield was flank ed with other fields of green I 1 oats andl antl grass and ripening ri pening barley the goidch wheat h eat field being boin boid the bright topaz gern geia sn I 1 in its emerald s surroundings surround ingi AM and aud in tilis tills neld aleid glittering in the bright ln sun shine fin e was all the life and alid animation incident to the movements of 20 reaping machine s and altogether particularly close of the day formed a pio plo beauty seldom equi equaled dedi never surpassed in this or any 0 other th er country for after the various separate tests of machines had been finished 15 of them started upon a sort of sweepstakes race to cut down the remainder of the field fieldi it was a concentration rution of power and 1 it produced a powerful as well as s esque effect there were two kirbys kirbas Kir bys two cayuga chiefs two new york seymour morgan and aliens allens two Dod dodges weis gels two woods one hubbards hubbardd Hub bards one Br adleys one buckeye Bucke yc one brin ch ek erhoff and valley chief tho the most perceptible difference in the 06 working of these machines is in the tho motion of the machinery that does the self raking the defect heretofore noticed in that odthe kirby having baving been remedied that machine laid its gavels garvels handsomely during dur ingall all ali its work today to day whether upon fast or slow speed the chain raker of the wood machine is imperceptible to one who looks on at a little distance he can only seo sec that the wheat falls in neat gavels garvels gavels in regular order his sweep rake works well but it works by a complicated awkward looking piece of mechanism Wheel wheelers erys cayuga chief made good gavels garvels and eo so did Halli days marsh machine any and all of them better than any hand ban rakes in the field in my opinion two of the most successful rak rah rakes L at work here and it is difficult to say which is the most popular is marshs marahs rake upon the valley chief built at lewis lowis burgea burg pa and johnsons johnsona rake upon the hubbard machine built at syracuse N Y the working of both these rakes is neat next nex to perfect and the John johnson soil rake ability of laying tile trio grain in a swath which makes it valuable to barley le and dud oat growers of this more avon apon anon r Y tribune |