The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-02
From The Broome Republican.

"Thers are now on machines attached to
| the power, on sipNe frame namely: A
| Thrssher, corn shNer, Sitting saw, a
root cutter, planer, aborer, wood saw,
cider mill, grist mil, and straw and
cornstock cutter. The machine NAV be
multiplied to any extent uliil almost every
variety used in shops and manufactures
| and in farming is added.
| Every machine Is as complee In itself as
though the whole apparatus had Seen con-
structed for either one ofthem.
| The machinery can be changed by two
| men from a wood saw TO q threshilg ma
chine in fifty-five seconds the change from
| a threshipg machine TO Sitting saw with
table is easily done inside OF two minutes
tho change rom Sitting saw TO cider
| mill is done in less than minute; from q
| cider mill to root cutter the change re-
Quires less than half minute; and II is
| changed from a cider mill to corn sheEer
| in from three TO five minutes; and to fod-
| der cutter, grist mill or planer In about the
same length Of time.
There Is nothing complicated about the
| machinery, no more than there Is about an
\ OK cart, and farm hands Of the ordinary in
tellisepce can run II successfully. There is
| nothing about 1t 10 break to make exten.
1 slve repairs necessary.
What the Machine will do can be told in
| few words, they do their work well. The
thresher Tor instance will thresh any kind
| OF grain as fast as one man can cut the
| bands nom the bundles and another pass
straw through the machine while several
men will be needed to bind the straw and
take away the grain. This thresher with
| one horse has threshed as fast as one hun
| utes and thirteen seconds. The capacity Of
| the thrcsher must therefore be judged by
| the dexterity OF the man or men that use It.
| Sticks or stones or briars do not effect the
machine, as the fails are hung so that they
will accommodate themselves to the char.
,ofa In q al ty,n NJ
| with. Smaller machines are made to run
| by hand that thresh from fifty to seventy
| five bushels per day.
No other corn shelter resembles the corn
shelters furnished with these machines. As
fast as the ears OF corn are shoveIed into an
ample hopper, the cobs will be carried out
at the other end of the machine while the
corn passes down through spout into
measure.
The wood saw makes from 3Oa0 TO 1000 re-
great that stick OF seasoned black birch
measuring seven inches on three sides can
be cut OF in a second; and quarter OF a
cord Of stove wood can be sawed from three
feet sticks after the propellfng power has
been disconnected. The Sitting saw runs
with still greater speed and can slit one
the momentum after the belt is thrown of.
The planning machine will nicely plane
The surface ois board or plank eighteen in
ches wide as rapidly as a farpen-
ter at the bench passes over the edge Of q
board with a Joiner. Planning and saving
are both done at the same time with one
machine by one horse power.
The straw cutter Is q self.feeding machine
and cuts with great rapidity any length re.
quired. Its strength and velocity is so great
IL will cut OF piece OF Georgia pine board
six inches wide and one inch thick at each
revolution of the knife without injuring
the machine or Stacking i1 motion per.
ceptibly. . 49,.
The cider mill has no equal. The apples
are cut into the merest shreds, no longer
than the fine blades OF lawn grass. The
seeds pass through the cutter VIII Die leaving
none Of their bitter flavor to the cider. All
the cells in the apples are broken, TIE juice
is all ob,ained and after the press is applied
to the pomace nothing but q meal Is left.
The root cutter SLAVES the roots in fine
sclices and dees 1t as rapidly as man can
shovel potatoes.
The feed mill grinds with rapidity from
eight 10 twelve bushels per hour with one
horse, leaving the meal as Il comes from the
mill perfectly cool and ready for bagging
without injury from heat. Tats last ma
chine completes combination which per-
mits farmer to 'hresh his rye and oats,
shell his corn, mixing and grinding the
ssme and cut the straw wherein TO feed
with ingle machine and single horse.
The operation OF these machines Is daily
witnessed by large humble OF farmers and
machpBcis, who express not only their
warm apr eciation OF them, but their as
tonishment,apd gralifo alton in behold ing
the degree OF per eeton and chespness OF
iabor-saving machinery"