HARVESTING MACHINERY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3193, 10 December 1892, Page 2

HARVESTING MACHINERY.

Although farmers should now be busily saving their grass crop*, t'oo se mon being so backward, but very few have as yet commenced cutting, and when the weather does settle there will be a rush to overtake arrears of work. To secure expedition and economy in the harvest field, the chief desideratum to the go-a-head farmer is the possession of reliable machinery. To any such who may oontsmplate purchasing this season, the advertisement appearing in Miis issue re the Walter A. Wood Company's machines will be interesting reading. Mr Thomas Slade, of Hamilton, is the sole agent for the company in Waik.ito, and he holds all classes of their machines in stock. The enclosed gear mower, so far as our not very extensive knowledge of such machinery goes, is as near perfection as possible It is so well balanced that, with a man sitting on the machine, a child of two years of age could with ease raise the pole, and tlio draught of the machine is so light (being so contrived that the pull is from the bottom of the machine), that- one cannot conceive of any further improvement in this direction being possible—unless of course a machine can be designed capable of working itself. The horses being thus relieved of all weight and the running of the machine being so easy, a day's work in the harvest field can have but little effect on them, which is in itself an important consideration. The machine is provided with gear for raising the knife, so that it can be instantly adjusted to suit the chara ter of the ground in which it may be working, and there are many other advantages possessed by this machine over those of other makes, which Mr Slade will be happy to point out to those interested. The patent mower knife grinding machines, which attracted so much attention at the late Waikato Agricultural Show, are also advertised. With these machines it is possible to do well in a few minutes that which would tike a man by the old-fashioned method of filing about an hour to do indifferently. Mr Slado has but a few of these handy little machines in stock, and as he will be niia'de to procure a further supply this season, those who wi.-h to secure one should lose no time in sending in t heir orders. The reaper and binder manufactured by the Walter A. Wood Company is more than holding its own against those of other makes—a fact which the number manufactured by the Company lasr, year (87,000) goes a long way t > prove. Mr Slade holds a quantity of agricultural machinery of various descriptions in -stock, which he intends to advertise in due course, '