THE BUCKEYE PLATFORM REAPER AND BINDER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1980, 17 March 1885, Page 2

THE BUCKEYE PLA TFORM REAPER AND BINDER.

Some few days ago wo notified that the above machine had been given a trial at Mr A. B Stubbiug's place at Uwynnelands, and that the result was in every reject successful, and highly satisfactory. Since then further trials have been given, and which have fully corroborated the opinion of those who witnessed the fir&t trial that it was tho coining machine. This latest addition to our agricultural machinery was patented by the Buckeye Company in America in the early part of 1884, and has proved itself a vast .step in advance of the other reaper and binders at present in use. Itb advantages are numerous, and of great consideration. The mechanism is no more complicated than that of an ordinary mowing machines. The travelling gear indispensable to other machines in here distuned with. Farmers me aware of the great inconvenience and loss of time experienced in moving their reapers and binders from place to place through having to unship them. The " Buckeye" machine can go through a gato Oft. wide, set for work, and is easy draught when working for two hornet. It is no less than Ocwt lighter than any other machine in use. There are no elevators, and tho binding is done on a rise of about 18 inches from the platform. The elevators on other machines have been found rather cumbrous and complicated, and when the crop is long it ih generally very considerably injured in folding. Again, it Ills the great advantage of being specially adapted to hilly country. The machines at present in use, through their top-heaviness, are not at all adapted for broken or undulating laud, as they are liable to— and frequently do— topple over and get smashed. Tho platform is much narrower than usual, but will take grain any length, nevertheless. Its entiro working is under the complete supervision of the driver. The latest trial was that on Mr J. K. S. Richardson's farm, Cambridge, about a week ago, upon a crop both light and heavy in places, and from 2ft. to 7ft. in height. Five acres were disposed of in five hours. Tho tiial took place in the presence of a number of practical men, all of whom expressed great satisfaction with the working of the machine Tho machine will bo on view for sometime at (Jwynneland*, where it is in chargn of Mr Jas. Forrest. Mown* Morrin and Co., of Auckland, are the agents.