Archive image from page 35 of Descriptive catalogue of horticultural and. Descriptive catalogue of horticultural and agricultural implements and tools, and field and garden seeds : with brief directions for planting, sowing, and culture and rules for the application of guano, lime, plaster, bone-dust, and other manures. Also a choice list of fruit trees with directions for planting out and culture with a description of the best breed of domestic animals, and the best time and manner of transporting them south descriptivecatal00abal Year: 1846 34 HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL TOOLS. 1 Man and
Archive image from page 35 of Descriptive catalogue of horticultural and. Descriptive catalogue of horticultural and agricultural implements and tools, and field and garden seeds : with brief directions for planting, sowing, and culture and rules for the application of guano, lime, plaster, bone-dust, and other manures. Also a choice list of fruit trees with directions for planting out and culture with a description of the best breed of domestic animals, and the best time and manner of transporting them south descriptivecatal00abal Year: 1846 34 HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL TOOLS. 1 Man and team, $1 50 1 Boy to drive, 50 $2 00 per day, which for 8 days is $16 00 Add interest for 1 year on the cost of the machine, 7 00 Cost of cutting 104 acres of Avheat by machine, S'23 00 If the same had been cradled, and supposing the average quantity, per man, per day, to be about two acres, it would require six cradles to cut 104 acres in eight days. At 13 acres per day the cost of six cradles, in- cluding board and lodging, at $1 50 per day, is $72 00. This show? a gain of $49 00 in favor of the machine. If, however, farmers employ men who day after day can cradle more than two acres per day, the esti- mate can readily be made in accordance with the greater manual power. It would seem that the usual quantity may be assumed at two acres per day for continued labor. In addition, we may estimate that six cradles would require nine rakers and binders; whereas the machine thus far has required but seven followers, making a saving of two men at §1 00 each, is $2 00 per day, which for eight days gives $16 00 in favor of the machine. If these calculations are correct, it will be perceived that Mr. D. saved $65 00 m harvesting his wheat crop alone. Since the ingathering of the wheat, we understand he has used the machine for cutting oats and flax. The farmers for many miles around Geneva came to examine the machine while at work, and were all sur- prised at the rapidity and neatne
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