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Show niilsl a wt.mU-r.-ul improve-"R'l't improve-"R'l't i" Uk- speed ,vitl, which 11,, New Ki.RlaiM fanner.-lrccui- 1 ii.ir jjraiu fr ,. luai.ke!. "As Dk- liiaeliino advances, t'he knives in 11, e cutter l,ar clip oil' the heads of the stalks. These i'.,n m, a broad cmllesa canvas.- belt that carries them to the cvlinder or beater ol'the thresher, 'which removes re-moves the yvain i'roin them. It ilrops through scries ul' sieves ovcr ami among which a rotaling tan keeps a strong current ul" air moving. This removes the dust and chilli', and the grain pours in a steady stream through a tnuiel, into sacks which -are sewed up ami dropped on the ground to be picked up by teams that follow the threshers. The work of each machine for the day; in an average held, is SoO sacks, licside tin mules it requires three men at a cost of $2 a day each to opciati each machine." A NEW INVENTION. Tlia Combined Rcnplng, Tlircaliing, nml A few years ago a farmer near Merced. California, became dissatisfied dis-satisfied with the slow progress of the reaper and thresher as they operated separately, and so planned a machine to do the work of the two at once. It cost him if.3.000, and it weighed eight tons. It didn't work satisfactorily satis-factorily and had to be rebuilt at an expense of $5,000. This second machine was operated by thirty mules attached to a '-push beam" 50 feet long and nearly as large as a ship's spar. It was steered by a "helms-man," a'j he was called, and required three other men to manage it. Ofcource the operation of this machine was very expensive, but so manj- improvements have been made in it that a compactly built reaper and thresher is now in use, easily operated by serenteen horses. A journal describing one of these machines says: "The amount of work that one of them is capable of performing in a day will seem incredible to thoso persons who have never seen theln in operation; and to those agriculturists who have never seen anything swifter in operation than the cradle and the horse power threshing machine, the sight of thirty-five of these monsters working at one time in a single field of wheal, as is fro iplently tho case on the great Dal-rvmple Dal-rvmple farm in North Dakota, would be an astonishing revelation. revela-tion. "In one dav of ten hours, seventeen seven-teen mules will draw a combined reaper and thresher t ivcnty-th ree miles. The machine cuts 2.'i!) I acres to the mile, which makes j it capable of harvesting 111. ST acres a day. This would mean, in a J year when the yield was far. aboul j 1, '.100 bushels of grain. This grain is garnered at the rale of l'JU bushels an hour, or three ami one-sixth one-sixth bushels a minute, which is |