New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-29

pening TO think Of the mammoth harvester on Prairie
RcDde Mich which cuts, threshes WINDOWS and puts
the grain into bags il goes, yentu-ed 10 give hn
DESCRIPTION Of its operations such rs had r-ce' ir-m
an eye witness for though had cffen passed the shed
where the monster stood bad seen ban AZ work
lady Of ny acquaintance who came from NeT-fork 70
visit her was TAX en- by him 20 the wonder lhey
vent fifteen miles of the hottest days ia Jny AMI
he Old lady said she would have gone uiy rs.h-r 'hau
have missed the sight II was worth more than any
caravan or rcrs ste ever heard Of The machine had
think, eight pair of horses attached to X, nag was
waving from the top the workmen were all busy IN tnei
clrerent departm.nrs man stood on tRe platform oe
bind, dropping of full bags a. another, who gatheri
them up end tossed them into ssgon which Followed at
BIS heels Hundreds Of excited spectators followed IN
the and along the road side. Mrs. - sad she
was very who picked up the bags aud that
as he STOPPED wipe the streaming perspIration from
M lace he aughirsly remarked, ought 70 be v'ry
THANH ful 10 Lord who is kind a. 10 gse me bag
=" full Of wheat every y minutes The man name
who threw of the bags Was Lord spoke OF the level
Prairie Us immense wheat fields and the noble machine
that performed It's complicated ab0rs with snch precs
ION. and going tell my auditor OF the smaller
reayefs | lad seen sweeping down the grain win won
deIul rapidly, when glance At his face convinced me
that he did not credit aoTd had been saving he
drew back from the table remarkne that Yankees were
very iugenous about good MANY things talking amo
''the rest: but said be, give me nggers Tor work
their hands are good machines need about most
things on the srm Ii there such things as
"you tell Of what good would they do here The nig.
gers would smash them up the first time they touched
"Iem and then there would be the concerns to pay for
"snd the nggers keep besides Kentucky u gee along
without I'm YET awhile reckon Aud thus saying he
went 20 the harves. held agLln.
Formerly their grain had been threshed by spreading
the bundles On some smooth, hard place in the field and
Training ii out with horses but this year was an
n.unced that hreshing. narhne would be 10 the neigh
bcrhood and | presume the mammoth harvester on
Prsife Ronde never created greater excitement, or
drew upon il admirng eyes. than nd thar little
old fashioned thrcshing-n achine with iis mysterious
gearing. on Keu.ucky plantation. 1t was the theme
OF conversation for long time, even Charles acknowl
edeirc that the wheat threshed faster and cleaner
than by the cd way but the thing had to be ,nsgel
mostly by white men for all the nilgers could do
WAS 10 cape and stare, their time was all lost
Such harvesting and such ideas would seem primitive
enough in State like this where every invention - ad
industry grssped with eagerness and where spark
ling ewes and eloquent tongues hail with enthusiasm
every index that points 10 Developments in the high
way of progression The occasion of the difference may
be- understood by glance at the institutions of the
tao Stsies-but viii not speak OF that now. The
busv energetic life around Us. this inspiring season,
tlee splendid farms, whore broad fields are studied
thick with shocks Of golden grain, the ardent glowing
days CROW ned by such nights OF peay brightness snail
lead 10 other and serener thoughts. A.