A NEW AMERICAN HARVESTER.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6501, 28 December 1881, Page 6

A NEW AMERICAN HARVESTER.

She Stoefctos Mmit describes a new her* vaster at work near that city. It says;“Silas March's {and borders open the tuW, end the field in which the machine was work’ mg wee reclaimed hot two or three yeere ago. Last season bo raised, sixty bushels of wheat to the acre oa It, hot Hus season the mop is not more than half ao heavy, on account of the great quantity of rain that fell during the winter and spring. Land of this character that is so low rcomtee not’ more than mmthird the amount of ram needed la the eastern part of the county. Viewed from a distance, the machine does cot look larger than an ordinary header and the waggon that aeeempanise it. Bat the notes sod doit created «<vfs*thmg m<w) fa<nyt*rw the grain Is being dona Four men are *3 that are requires for the work. Twenty Itoriee furnish Use poeer. Three of the men sit In comfortable seats—ose cm driving the bones, and the third seekme £i# grain., Tbt fourth man stands os s uurushT pisfifeta near the tickle, aod 07 meats of a irver, which can he moved with, cm hand, raises ot lowers the fattier. Then is no hard week about the machine far any man, except the excise wer,*wfa«n heavy grain.is bring cut. In ordinary .grain he, too, bee an easy tuns « it. The owner thinks ho will earn the price of the machine (SSOOdol.) this seasoc. Os good ground he threshes 40 acres a day easily, and expects to avenge 30 ten* tins Mason. TWo dollars an aw Is the cost- to the farmer. At SO acres a day this wo old leave a large margin of profit. By going into figures we can see; Four men at fidol a day, (Mot; 20 horses at fiOonts a day, lOdol; for incidental expenses, Sdolj total, SOdoL Thirty acre** day atSdel an acre, 60dal; less SOdol, eceala 40dol a day profit. This is a large profit to the owner of the .machine, but the farmer also comes in for a due- share of the advantage. Silas March says he aarm about Idol 60 cents an acre fay employing It. Beading alone fa## hitherto cost him Idol SO cents an acre. The expense of threshing this year is 7 cents a bushel. Oooniiaf thirty bushels to the acre makes It Sdol 10 cents per acre, which added to the eost of heading gives 3dd 60 cents against Sdol fay the new machine, dumpies were taken from the machine which were as clean as the cleanest wheat brought into the Stockton market. Where there are no rtaeka, furthermore there is no dirt scraped np&sd run into the grain to perplex miller# and discourage produce exchanges. The handling of grant from the header to the accompanying waggon, thence to the stack, and thence subsequently to the machine, shells a considerable percentage of it out. There Is no fire used shout the combination machine. Thin is an important consideration of itself with lha farmers. There are thirtytwo of lhaee machines in operation in this and other counties to the tenth. All who have seen them in operation are convinced that the day ia not far distant when the old f»«hioced header end threshing machine# will be Hungs of the past.**