. The American farmer's instructor, or, Practical agriculturist [microform] : comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm, together with a variety of information which will be found important to the farmer. Agriculture; Pennsylvania imprints; Pennsylvania imprints; Pennsylvania imprints. Willises Improved Vegetable Cutter for cutting large or small roots. The great objection to all other machines is, their cutting the roots into slices, which makes it almost impossible for the cattle to get hold of them; this machine, with a littl
. The American farmer's instructor, or, Practical agriculturist [microform] : comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm, together with a variety of information which will be found important to the farmer. Agriculture; Pennsylvania imprints; Pennsylvania imprints; Pennsylvania imprints. Willises Improved Vegetable Cutter for cutting large or small roots. The great objection to all other machines is, their cutting the roots into slices, which makes it almost impossible for the cattle to get hold of them; this machine, with a little alteration, cuts them into large or small pieces, of such shape as is most convenient for the cattle to eat. It will cut with iKiPLEMENTS, &c. OF THE FARM. ease from one to two bushels of roots per minute, should be without one of these machines. VEGETABLE CUTTER. 447 No farmer. MOWING AND REAPING MACHINES. ^^Though reaping machines,'* says the Editor of the Ency- clopaedia of Agriculture, <*are as old as the time of the Romans, one of an effective description is yet a desideratum in agricul- ture unless the recent invention'* of Mr. Obed Hussey, can be considered as supplying that desideratum. Wilson^s Mowing Machine or Grass and Grain Cutter is highly recommended by gentlemen who have tried it. It is principally used along the Hudson river. It is a machine of much promise, and is, we presume, an improvement on the best of the English reaping machines, that invented by Smith, of Perthshire. Hussey^s Mowing and Reaping Machine is, perhaps, supe- rior to any other, for its simplicity, durability, and the great facility and regularity with which it performs its work. It does its work clean; and one great quality is, that if the grain is too much lodged to be cradled, it will cut it at the rate of two acres per hour, nearly as clean as if it had been standing. It can be adapted to the inequalities of the surface of a field, and has been so improved by the original invento
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