New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-02
HA YING.

In this single, comprehensive word we have
the most important matter connected with Aneri-
can agriculture. Tie hay crop is Of more value
than the cotton, or the corn crop, or the wheat
crop, or any other single article Of farm produce,
and upon many fa- rs Of more value than all
others combined. OF what immense importance
then is haying. OF what vast consequence to indi-
vduas and to the whole country that the best of all
appliances that modern ingenuity has provided should
be brought into use to the hay crop-the crop,
upon which the lives of tbree.fourths Of all the
horses cattle and sheep in the United States depend
from November TO April. One-half Of the year, in
this the temperate zone Of the States that produce
the working animals, the beef butter cheese,
hides, the mutton and wool-these animals, so
necessary to our existence as q civilized people,
must be maioly supported upon hay. We could find
substitute for every other crop grown. For hay
there is pone.
Farmer have you thought how much depends
upon the next four weeks Are you ready with
the tools necessary to secure this immensely i'm
portant crop in the short season that nature only
gives you1 For you must make hay while the
sun shines" and thst never agsn will shine enough
during the haying season in this country to enable
YOU TO make il with poor Old hand-scythes, fastened
to crooked sticks cut in the woods, and forked
sticks for pitchforbs, with rakes to msch-such as
were in almost universal use in New-England City
years ago.
You cannot secure your crop with such tools.
Fortunately YOU have no need to use such. None
but sloven will. None but bsd manager will use
hand tools excellent they now are, except toa very
limited extent because Yankee ingenuity has been at
work and machines have been invented, tried i'm
proved tried again, and now are extensively manu-
featured in an aluos perfect state, by which horse
power is substituted for manpower to NOW the grass
TO spread IT, to rske it in wnrows and In some cases,
to pull it together in cocks to the stack to lift 1t
from the ground to the stack, or upon the hay-car
and then TO lit it again from the cart to the mow-an
by horsepower Have you got these mac hines or any
| one of them A. most important of all, have you
| got nov ing machine OF these, the family is nu-
! merous-al children of the original American reaPng
or moving machine, invented and put into successful
operation by Obed Hussey of Baltimore within the
last twenty years, and all, with slight variations,
working upon the same principle.
Upon Hussey Mccormick improved, and carried
of the palm OF success, until Mccormick Reaper
| has become Of worldwide renown.
Though both of these original machines would cut
grass they not successful enough a. mowers 10
come into general use. The honor Of successful
moving machine was reserved for hetchum OF Buffalo
His first machines gave great satisfaction though re-
curing strong team and too heavy and costly Tor
small farmers. Woods Improvement" of the
Ketchum machine has been generally considered an
important one.
Within the last ten years, the " Improvements,
and machines with names, and new con-
triyanoes to facilitate the work, have become so
numerous that We cannot catalogue them; ana
now a very large number are made and used, and
what speaks more in their favor than all we could say,
is the fact that the demand for them keeps pace with
the increased manufacture.
OF mowers mp to the present time, or rather M to
the hsyDg season of 1853 the great want was one
horse machine that would do the work perfectly as
the best two-horse mscbines, with speed proporoned
to the power In short, machine for small farmers,
such as compose nearly pre-tenihs of the population
of all the Moth Eastern States.
machine, combining all the vsluable improve
ments tha, had been applied to the large sizes, one
shat should be easy 10 understand and keep in ORDER
and easy to work with one horse and better adapted
than the large maci ines 10 the small fields, uneven
surfaces and hilsides Of New England rep ,atedly
urged inventors 10 oonrive and it is some satisfaction
TO know that what THE TRIBUNE has said upon the
subject has had some influence. We are assured II
had in one case We Dc not know how many one-horse
machines are now onered 10 the Puohc TOT tue ha!"s
of 1859. nor how good they al are; but We do know
that one has been invented that is "a near night as
we can imagine, which has been Thoroughly tested,
and is now being manufactured at South Groton,
Mass, with all the facilities at the command OF
Messrs. Nourse, Mason & Co, the great agri-
cultural implement manufacturers of Boston. And
we are well pleased to hesr that the strong water
power applied to the production Of their ooe-horse
power mowir & machines is inaeequate 10 supp! 'he
demand, 80 highly sre they appreciated oy sn 'msu
farmers In fact, it appears to oe, NOT tne yer!
thing, certainly Of them 80 long wished 'o'
many. 1t is a machine that no man VINO na'
five acres Of grass to cut can afordso be Without
1t is constructed entirely Of iron, with movaD'e
cutter bar, adapted to uneven surfaces or can Ue
raised from the ground and held 'tahonar! ~nie
driving from 6ed to field it certainly looks s'n0usn