Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-18
TO THE EDITORS.

GENTLEMEN: Permit me to occupy small space in
your valuable sheet by giving short description Of
new machine that has lately been patented You num-
among your readers large body Of farmers and to
them will be found of special interest The inventor is
Mr. j. A. Wagner, Of Steuben county, New York. and he
terms it .Clover and Timothy Seed Harvester Labor
Saving Machine 1t has been tested on Mr. Abbottsfarm
in this city, and witnessed by numbers Of farmers,
who all spoke in the highest Of its performance 1t
is simple frame and box mounted on wheels, in front
Of which is cylinder set with spiral knives, acting IN
concert with curved spring teeth, in combination with
straight knife which forms perfect shear, that sewers
the heads from the stalk which at the same moment
discharged in the box The teeth being made to spring
and Vibrae II matters not how thick saky the clover
not particle can escape being cut allow the teeth to
become clogged The machine is so constructed that it
can be adjusted to the height of the clover and timothy
WITH the ala OF one boy and horse, this machine will
harvest from ten twelve acres per day thus not only
efecng considerable saving of labor such as moving
raking drawing stacking, and hreshng the heads from
the stalks but also retaining the on the land the
value of which every farmer can appreciate
BY the aid of five machines farmer can harvest one
thousand acres IN twenty-five days, which is allowing
only eight per day for each, though they will pro-
duce much more, the cost of which / reckon thus:
Wages for five men or boys for twenty-five days.
ct u each per $125 90
Expense Of FIVE horses at twenty-five each
per day for the period 81 rs
Hulhng the seed, 200 90
Tota...,......~-............. $3.50 IS
Take three bushels a fair average that each acre
VIII yield oil Seu, at value OF % per Dushel
and the result will be. 900 90
By the old system, the farmer allowing one-haf
would yield to them only $500 90
By the Of these machines to the number OF five
thousand acres, saving would be effect
ed will be by the foregoing figures off, $7,1 rs
BY reference to the statistics of the last census find
there nearly million bushels of clover and grass
seeds gathered throughout the United States estimated
be worth So, OOO O00 still there many States in the
Union where oneha of the seed is totally lost and not
more than onefourth of the land seeded it ought to
be. This has arisen from the of facilities to collect
the entire seed, but which happily be accom-
plished by this new invention.
disadvantage of cloverng land is to keep from the
sun, also to form mould to feed the land.
To do this on poor land lme guano plaster is found
good to stimulate start its growth. In many parts Of
our States there lands that would produce five
bushels Of wheat per But in years. by seeding
the land with clover and timothy the same lands have
yielded from thirty to forty bushels per acre. and other
crops in proportion.
fear have already trespassed too much your
space, or otherwise might show many other advantages
that would result from the Of this machine, which
commend to the examination of every farmer.
Yours, respectfully, G. w. MEARSON.