FOUST'S HAY LOADER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 183, 4 August 1877, Page 6

FOUST'S HAY LOADER.

The Rural NevoYorJcertUm describes this newly invented implement : — "■ About the most diaagreeabte duty relegated to the farmer was pitching hay. It certainly 1 was one of the meanest gifts in. the agricultural Pandora's box. It not only broke the back, 'but unhinged the temper, and was no holiday work anyhow. This . has been remedied, we are glad' it> say, by Foust's hay-loader, which has been characterised by My. Coleradri ,a3 one of the most : important improvements .in. agricultural impjemetfts shown at the Centennial; '^s Mr Coleirian was chairman' of the agriciiltural judges of award, this remark, inky be taken as High 'and : di&nminating praise. W.e sitw the 1 loader/ in siijicessSchenk's' station' la'^'s'umnierj'Wn'ere'the test was both exhaustive liiid severed : 'lfc worked : admirably; taking tip^the^gmin rapidly, at^d without hitches "or drawbacks qFa'nfkinxi; The followiiig are some of ife advantage's' :— tf requires no extra men or horses to work Tti It will elevate a too* of hay from the" window in five minutes, thus niore tldin, doubling the speed of securiiig hay. %is easily attached and adapted to' all' farmT Wao*gons and rack's.. It a'ddktb the/drafe on level ground only the of one 1 mail. It takes the hay from Ihe grau'nd a3 clean as is usually done by the haW'-ibrk. It is apapted t6 all ordinary: m'eddow land. Will pitch barley and all fei'nds of loose grain and flax in the most Satisfactory manner. There is no. violent motion, and beingly strong bii ill; and : of good material it will last irideiinitelyi It must be conceded- that stifeK an im'pl'emetit is a-n important adjunct to the usual farm machinery, and, ndv^ that the successful working of a farm so much depends on thfe judicious use of practical labor-saving implement we ; cannot- too strongly urge au investigation 1 of the claims 'of tne liay-ioaderi When we take into cqnsiderattoii the facts 6f so many crops being lost.thrbugh the scarcity of labor at harvesting time, pie Foust hay-lpader must be'regardfed.as a highly Valuable m'acbjne. When it : blows hard in exposed; pod.dqcks,' what is termed a 'wind-bre'at, a kind of Tig^t frame which resembles"^ low; tilt frame for a cart, is' added to the elevator.