TRIAL OF HARVESTERS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 362, 9 January 1880, Page 2

TRIAL OF HARVESTERS.

The Deeding T-Wl* Binder,, ( jWwi The Press.)

Messrs Mason, Struthers and Co., the New Zealand agents, exhibited at work yesterday a Marsh harvester with Deering twine binder, and nothing could be more satisfactory than the work performed by it, which was in fact the very perfection of harvesting. The field chosen was one belonging to Mr John Overton, of Prebbleton. The crop of oats varied from two and a half to five and a half feet high high, and contained a large portion of broken down straws by wind and sparrowsT "But" a"" very, clean even stubble was left. The sheaves were turned, off all exactly jk& same size, and with wonderfully uniform tightness of Each sheaf was'so tight that it was impossible to shake any out of it, and-difficult °yen to ciraw a straw from it. The knoyt was perfect, and would not yield to strain upon it, and would be very difficult to untie. On putting sufficient strain on to break the string it never gave way ak the knot. The sheaves are compressed into a shape not round, but flattened, being about fifteen.inches through in one direction and only seven in thej other".x They looked very well when built in stool^.but were 1 certainly not symmetrical standirlgf or lying alone, as besides their flattenedsJjhape/ they looked very ) waspish, withJtiAiL drawn in and highly. and their bulging put Neither by hand nor nor by therol^^^^^^^^H whole a crop The obtainj^^^^^^^^H which instancy stops th^^^^^^^H

I lid starts the binder, which completes Is work in one revolution, when the Inder stops and the gathering claws Imeience their work again. There is jo confusion or imperfect separation be■yeen*Bie bound and unbound straw, |nd absolutely no waste. The whole p performed under conditions that Irould be unaffected by the strongest winds ; and indeed, after the grain leaves the cutting platform, no wind bould have any effect on it until quietly pushed off in a lightly bound sheaf with about one foot drop to the ground. The trial yesterday attracted a large gathering of farmers and others interested in agricultural pursuits; Punctually at [ten o'clock Mr Overton's man, with a pair of horses belonging to that gentleman, 'were attached to the Deering, and after the oil can had been applied to the working gear of the machine by Mr Eliithrope, the maker's representative, the word was given and the work began. The first sheaf was eagerly criticised. The knot was the subject of discussion, and the manner in which it stood the strain that was put upon it by one after another gave evident satisfaction. Then the machine was stopped, and the manner in which the knot is tied was slowly and practically shown and explained by the jnaker's representative. The knot tier is in appearance like a bird's bill, which opens and receives the two ends of the string at the moment it is cut by the knife, which are thus drawn through the loop by the beak retaining its hold oa them till the knot is made and the sheaf is gen% dropped on the ground. s The width fcf cut of the machine is i<^|ipd | claims that in he can negotiate a a day of ten iigg w ith ease. About field of fifteen & reS ent during the day, 200 persons were-jf satisfaction at the and the expressions'vmerous and unwork done were both s nlß||fr'by many ajumous, attention being caivork was to the clean way in which tlmissed by done. Not an ear of corn w.ourse, or the reaper and binder in its untied, allowed to fall on the grou£ : t was At a late hour in the of suggested by Mr H. J. 4sent who Yaldhurst, that all those in which were satified with the mannould give Je Deering did its work the same. th«in some tangible proof ofed by one Accordingly a letter was dn of th« visitors as under :— a lg g o - January {' andC m l 0 Messrs Mason, Strath* De,r farmers m tht Province, f / Mnrcl, k this day witness a trial oiT coe o S~ * Harvester with Wring's f me B ™ in a heavy crop of oats belong ° 0 , n Overton Esq Prebbletei, ai.^ 6 J sirous of testifying to the cxc ~, - * *h# work done, mid have no Jj^ in saying that it is a most perfec "* ijhjne. and does the best work of ay t j n jtfW";iueai*gj-sua-aiiffliaer it will be-.* great acquisition to this colony, and elsewhere. We |also desire t§ thank Mr Eliithrope, the representative, for his lucid explanations of the machine, and attention to all inquiries. Signed by over fifty farmers on the ground, including many of the principal settlers in Canterbury. It was stated by the agents that after the trial they took several orders for tlie machines from persons who had been present and witinessed the wtrk they had accomplished. It is worthy of notice that not a single hitch occurred to mar the working of the binder, which is strictly automatic, iiot even a tie broken. The agents may be fairly congratulated on a trial resulting in unqualified satisfaction to those witnessing it.