IMPROVED METHOD OF HARVESTING.
The Colusa (Calefornia) Sun says that improved methods of harvesting, mostly peculiar to California, are making it possible to grow wheat at less cost than ever. The combined Harvester (an improved 'header and thrasher), is declared to have proved a success; but the Sun is of opinion that the machine of the future is a combined steam harvester, The Sun adds: —The horses simply ipull this along, and the engine keeps up the regular motion. One of these machines has been kept at work at J. S. Gibson's for several days, and has given entire satisfaction. It saves all the grain, and turns out good clean wheat, and is the cheapest machine yet invented. Ten horses, five men, and about forty gallons of crude petroleum constitute the i running expense ', and the machine puts about thirty acres of wheat a day in the sack, This makes the actual expense about eighty cents an acre. Of course more than this has to be charged, because interest, wear and tear, breakage, &c, must be added. But it is cheap harasting. The machine appears to be a * header and thrasher worked by steam, but drawn by horses.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1833, 27 December 1888, Page 3
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198IMPROVED METHOD OF HARVESTING. Temuka Leader, Issue 1833, 27 December 1888, Page 3
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