| Show j i A Electrical Grass Mower I Mr John Sweeny the amateur rancher ranch-er has invented a machine for cutting grass by electricity which will prove a I striking improvement in agricultural machinery ma-chinery A small dynamite machine I weighing not over eightyfive pounds is the basis It generates a current of electricity I elec-tricity that heats a metallic ribbon white I hot This ribbon burns the grass I off close to the ground Yesterday Mr Sweeny made the trial trip with I his machine He filled up the batteries I with bluestone and acid and when he j I got all ready Mr Dodd the jockey was anxious to handle the ribbons Mr Dodd got on the seat and started off at a lively j pace sending the grass over back of the machine in a beautiful green shower Mr Sweeney was delighted when suddenly sud-denly Mr Dodd rose from his seat and turning a back somersault followed the I grass and the horses plunging on came up with the fragments of the affair against Shaws Hot Springs It appears that the speed at which Dodd had driven generated too much electricity and it got up on the iron seat and burned the seat of the drivers pants close to the hide It was just at this moment that Dodd took the header backward over the tailboard of the mower Mr Sweeney did not expect to have perfect machinery at the I beginning and thinks that by having the seat composed of some nonconductor he I can keep the driver from getting overheated I over-heated Carson Appeal |
