SELF-BINDERS TYING WITH WIRE.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 141, 30 April 1879, Page 3

SELF-BINDERS TYING WITH WIRE.

We recommend the following communication from Messrs. Redwood Brothers, of the Spring Creek mills, to the careful attention of the agricultural interest: — '• Wc desire through the medium of your payer to call the attention of farmers using self-binders which tie with wire, to the fact, that by allowing the wire to pass through the threshing machine it is broken into small pieces which remain in the grain. With wheat this is most injurious, as we find that particles of wire passing through the stones in grinding are flattened and rendered so sharp that they cut the silk dressing machinery, and not only cause much loss from stoppage of repairs, but prevent us turning out a fine sample of flour. This to us is a most serious matter, and we wish to point out that by not carefully taking out the wire bands when, threshing, farmers are depreciating the value of their wheat, as no miller will give the same price for grain. On our own farm we have haefno difficulty in taking out the wire by using the nippers made by the manufacturers for the purpose. These implements cut the wire with ease and hold it firmly afterwards, so that the band can easily be pulled out and put aside. We noticed in some American papers that the millers there were very much against machines using wire, and were in fact combining to prevent their use amongst farmers, but we were inclined to think that they were doing so from other motives ; but when we accidentally found some of the pieces of wire in the meal, and then examined the silk dresser, we found the complaints of our. Yankee friends were well grounded. We have several of the pieces of wire at our mil!, and shall be glad to show them to any one interested, when we are certain it will be seen that we are not without good reasons for what we say," —" Marlborough Times."