The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-23
From the Broome Republican

"Thers are now ten machines attached 10
the pawer, on single frame, namely: A
ThreRher, q corn shelter, n Sitting EaV, a
root cutter planer, bOrer, wool saw,
a cider mill, Rrlst mill, and straw and
cornstock cutter. This machine may bc
multiplied 10 any extent until almost ev0ry
variety used in shops and manuIa-tuTits
and In farming IL added.
Every machine IL a. complete In i;self -
though the whole apparatus had been con-
structed for either one ofthem.
The machinery can be changed by two
men from a wood saw 10 threshing ina
chine in fifty five seconds the change from
a threshing IN chine 10 Sitting raw with
table is easily done Inside Of two minutes [;
the change from alittiDg sPw 10 a cider
mill IL done In less than minute: from q
cider mill 10 a root cutter the change re-
Qu!res less than half q minute and II ls
changed from cider mill TO corn sheller
in from three To fve minutes and 20 iod-
der cutter, grist mill or planer In about the
same length OF time.
There is nothing complicated about IN @
machinery, no more tnan there II about an
OK cart, and farm hands Of the ordinary IN
telligPnce can run II successfully. There IN
nolhing about II TO break 10 make eXtCn.
sive repairs necessary.
What the Machine will do can be told IN
a few words, they do their work well. The
thresher ior instance viii tbre-h any kind
bands from the bundles and snother pass
straw through the machine while several
men will De needed 10 bind the straw and
take away the grain. This thresher with
one horse has tbreshed Bs fast n one hmm
dred and four bundles Of Rye IN seven min
utfs and thirteen seconds. The capacity OF
the thresher must therefore be judged by
the deIterity oftho man or me n tbat use II.
sticks or stones or bTiaTs DO not effect the
machine, ~ the fails are hung sO that they
will accom- moda e themselves 10 the char.
acter OF the material they come In contact
with. Smaller machines ere msde 10 run
by band that tbresh from my TO seyenty.
five bushels per day.
No other corn ShfllFr reSenb' ~ the cor
shelters furnished with these machines. As
fast as the ears OF corn are sEOve ed into an
ample hopper, the cOlS vii bs carried out
At me other end Of the machine while the
corn passes down through spoUt into a
measure.
The wood saw makes from 800 "a $50 re-
volutiOns per minute. The velocity IL ~
great that n stick Of seasoned black birch
measuring seven inches on three sides can
be cut on In q second; and a quarter OF
cOvd Of stove wood can De sawed from three
feet sticks after the propelling power hs-
been disconnected. The Sitting saw run.
with gtlu greater speed and can SIT one
bundred and twenty feet Of inch board by
the momentum after the belt r. thrown on.
Inc plAGlDR HhfDlIs viii nlcfIy pane
the surface ola board o. plank eighteen in
ches wide as rapidly a. carpen-
ter al the bench passes over the edge o =
board with Joiner. Planning and saving
are both done a. the same tine with one
machine hy one horse power.
The straw cutter II a Eelffeeding machine
and cuts With great rspidity any length re-
quired. It's strength and velocity IL 10 great
IL Will cut OF piece Of Georgia pine board
six inches Wide and one inch thick at each
revolution Of the knife without iDjurtns
the machine or Stacking its motion per-
cepIbly.
The cider MIL has no 6quaI. The apples
are cut into the meresf khreds, 10 longer
than the fine blades OF lawn grsss. The
seeds pass through the cutter gh Ole leaving
none Of their bitter flavor 10 the cider Al
the cells IN the applss are broken, tke ju'cs
IL all obtained and after the pres. n applied
70 the pomace nothing but q meal Is len.
The root cutter shayts the roots IN fne
slices and dses II a. rapidly IS a man can
shovel potatoes.
The feed mill gJinds with rap:dlty from
eight 10 twelve bushels per hour with one
horse, leaving the meal az 70 comes rom th6
mill perfectly cool and ready for tagging
without Injury from heat. This last ma
chine completes combination which Der.
ntts farmer 70 ihresh his rye and oats,
shell his corn, mixing and grinding thu
same and cut the straw vhsTeon 70 fed
with a Jingle machine and sinzie horse.
The operation Of thee machines rs daily
witnessed By large numbeis OF farmers and
machuEcis, who express not only theiI
warm appreciation OF them, but their A.
tontshnent and grzaincation IN beboI1ing
the degree Of perfection snd cheapnes oi
lsboE-ssvtns machinery"