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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 285, 3 December 1870, Page 2

New Agricultural Implements. — Mr. Carpenter, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, has succeeded in putting iuto the field an automatic machine, which will cut, bind, and deliver its thousauds of bundles of grain, without the aid of human hands, and without wasting a kernel. Trials made duri_g the recent harvest showed that, out of nearly 3000 buudles, not above eight or ten would need rebinding ; these had straw so short that ifc was difficult to get the cutter far below their heads. Three acres were cut in 2\ hours, without a bundle being missed ; and it is b> lieved that in an ordinary clear and level field a 6p»n of horses would easily cut and bind eight or ten acres daily, and probably more. . . One of the novelties at the recent agricultural exhibition in Christchurch was Mr. Glyde's thatching machine, which turns out forty yards ■ n hour at the rate of 2d per yard. Any length cau be supplied from the machine at the width of about four feet.