. Charles V. Mapes'. Agricultural machinery. C. V. MAPES ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 115 Haymaking Machine. This machine has been long used in England, but its cost, as there made, is verv large. An improvement made here is now under experiment, and will doubtless be ready in time for next season's crops. Fig. 167^ represents the machine recently patented by Mr. Stodard, and has many improvements as compared with those which have preceded it. The teeth may be turned to any required angle, for heavier or lighter grasses, or may be turned in so as to be entirely protected when passing over common roa
. Charles V. Mapes'. Agricultural machinery. C. V. MAPES ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 115 Haymaking Machine. This machine has been long used in England, but its cost, as there made, is verv large. An improvement made here is now under experiment, and will doubtless be ready in time for next season's crops. Fig. 167^ represents the machine recently patented by Mr. Stodard, and has many improvements as compared with those which have preceded it. The teeth may be turned to any required angle, for heavier or lighter grasses, or may be turned in so as to be entirely protected when passing over common roads, or when not in use. Its promise is very great, and we anticipate receiving favorable reports from its use the present season. A series of rotating forks are moved by the axle of a two-wheeled frame, drawn by one horse, throwing the cut hay high into the air, and permitting it to fall in so open and divided a condition as to insure the full action of the sun and air. There is perhaps no implement the value of which has been so little understood, until very recently. The labor usually employed on a hay crop is of a casual and most expensive kind, whilst the above machine, when properly constructed, not only suffices to make the owner independent of extraneous aid, but enables him to do his work more quickly and efficiently, and thus to be more independent of the weather. Those already manufactured do the work of from 6 to 20 men. It is quite impossible to shake out and separate the hay so well by hand as by this ma- chine, and the drying is so much quicker as to frequently save a day in the secur- ing of the hay crop. With this machine and the mowing machine, in connection with the improved horse-rakes, a farmer is no longer confined to a small area of mowing This is a new invention, and labor-saving in its use. Hay may be carried by this im- plement, assisted by a tackle and sheaves, from the wagon to the highest mow, and there discharged of its load by the wagoner, a
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