REAPER AND BAND CUTTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 108, 14 March 1879, Page 3

REAPER AND BAND CUTTER.

®N Tho value of Mr Quinlivan's patent feeder and band cutter as a labor-sayin« machine i 3 tliua commented on by a correspondent of the Bendigo Advertiser —"Mr Quinlivan of Coghill's Creek, deserves the thanks of the whole farming community in Victoria for his patent feeder and band cutter, which is attached to the threshing machine, It not only saves the labor of three men, but it does the work in so satisfactory a manner that' it leaves nothing to be desired. The band cutter consists of an elevator worked by an endless belt, which carries the sheaves from the stack to the foeder, and on ths passage to it they come in contact with a circular saw, which cuts tho bands just before they are received by the feeder, The feeder is so constructed that the number of sheaves is regulated and adjusted to the capacity of tho thresher, so that it is kept constantly at work. The work is performed much better than it could ever be done by hand labor, and the saving of labor not only benefits the owners of the machines,-hut is a great advantage to tho farmer as well, One of these feeders and band cutters has been at work this season at tho Terricks, attached'to Messrs Jewell and Walsh's

machine, and has given the greatest satisfaction. It is indeed destined to supersede those thresherp without it in the same manner that the reaper and binders supercedes the old style of reapers. Mr Quinlivan is to bo complimented on the ingenuity he has displayed, and for his persevoranco in bringing his patent to such perfection; and he may feol the satisfaction of knowing that ho has iron the approbation of all those who are interested in such matters."