. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. 312 COMPARATIVE RESULTS. It , m turnings This would be 2,V,x miles hour inchulino. the tuniino-s. At this 1 â¢>in " "> mciuUmg were cut in a minute. At the ; ;'^''i'^=^ cut -i ir« f . ! '^"^ '^ y'^"^^ mower cut .1 10
. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. 312 COMPARATIVE RESULTS. It , m turnings This would be 2,V,x miles hour inchulino. the tuniino-s. At this 1 â¢>in " "> mciuUmg were cut in a minute. At the ; ;'^''i'^=^ cut -i ir« f . ! '^"^ '^ y'^"^^ mower cut .1 108 leet long and 7 ieet wide, I 17G « feet,n. 3^ minutes; or, at the rate of aaO^c;! ! cj the. ^ouâ allownigthe machine no time fbr est or tunnng, zt cut a swatl, 4- ieet wide and 20 rods ong, equal to l,5o4A square feet in a minute ^r 1" tn^^es more than a good mower with a sc h'e in Z ing Mth such a competition and a large numher of spectators would exert himself to his utmost, tint oeitain that he was far better as a mower than the averag. of farm laborers, while at the same t^ "i e dent, from the above-named speed, that the team n ith the machine, could work pretty steadily ' curbv !l;::''^^"^^"'-5« ^f«^« the comparative quantity cut by tie machine, m this experiment, as five times greater than that cut by the mower. That is to Tu m ch n a half-day as five men, or a pair of horses and a n Hchine equal to four men. Now, as to the work performed it was admitted by all that the machine cut much the best; and, when it is considered that w th he mower^ one man is required to every five to o Z spreading, we have to credit the machine with a otit- man s labor in spreading, or a machine and '^1 to five men instead of four, or, including the 1 ive machine, and horses, equal to six men. T^us sunno e. we will say, a half-day's work. suppose., The cost of the six men for the half-dav, in havino- would he at least four
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