Perpetual Baling Machine.

Manawatu Herald, 2 March 1895, Page 3

Perpetual Baling Machine.

Mr W. R. Wilson, of Bulls, has struck out in a new line in the matter of machinery, having just imported an improved baling machine. This machine, which is known as P. K. Dederick's perpetual baling machine, is the only one probably in the North Island, and if the expecta* tions as to its utility and ValuG to farmers be realised, Mr Wilson will have rendered a service to the district for which he deserves en* couragement and liberal support. The use to which the machine is to be put is principally that of compressing straw, and for that matter hay, etc., into a compass so much less than the space which it occupies in the stack, that it can be stored in a very limited space comparatively and profitably railed or shipped to Wellington and other markets. We saw some of the bales of straw at Mr Wilson's yesterday which had been turned out by the machine, : and which gives good ground for the hope that a commodity which has hitherto been destroyed almost ! wholesale will in future be turned to good and profitable account. The bales, which contained about one hundred-weight of straw measured 86 inches, by 18 inches, by 14 inches. They are tied with wire by the machine, and are in form and weight very convenient for either stacking in lofts or packing on trucks. Mr Wilson estimates that while he could not carry more than about two tons of straw on a truck in trusses he could put seven tons on a truck when pressed into bales by the machine. About twelve tons of straw or hay can be put through the machine in a day. If the 4,000 or 5000 tons of hay roughly estimated to be produced in the counties of Rangitikei and Manawatu could be baled and sent to market annually, it would be found to make a very desirable addition to the income of the agricultural part of the community. We hope Mr Wilson's enterprise will meet with the success which it deserves. — Advocate.