The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-30
From the Broome Republican.

"There are now ten machines attached 10
the power, on n single frame, namely: a
ThrCSher, q corn shelter, Sitting saw, a
root cutter, a plauer, u borer, a wood saw,
a cider mill, a grlSt mill, and straw and
cornStOCk cutter. The machine may be
multiplied to any extent until almost every
variety used in shops ana manufactures
and in farming Is added.
Every machine is as complete In itself aE
though the whole apparatus had been con-
structed Tor either one ofthem.
The machinery can be changed by two
men nom wood saw 10 threshing ma
chine in ty-tive seconds the change from
thTeShing M chine 10 n sitting raw with
table rs easily done inside OF two minutes
tie change rom n Sitting saw TO q cider
mil Is done in less than Il minute; from q
cider mill To root cutter the change re-
uu!reS less than half minute and IL Is
Chaugel from cider mill 10 corn shelter
in from three 10 five minutes; and 10 fod-
der cutter, grist mill or planer in about the
same length oftime,
There is Nothing complicated about the
machinery, no more than there IL about an
OK cart, and farm hands OF the ordinary in
telii@rn nee can run IL successfully. There IL
nothing about Il 10 break to make extern
sivP 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 IS fast as one man can cut the
bands from 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 thTesher with
one horse has threshed as fast as one hun.
dred and four bundles OF Rye In seven min
utes and thirteen seconds. The capacity OF
the thrCsher must therefore be judged by
the dex,erity Of the man or me II that use Il.
Sticks or stones or briarS do not effect the
machine, as the fails are hung so that they
will n ccOmmOda c themselves TO the char.
acter OF the material they come in contact
with. Smaller machines are made to run
by hand that thresh from fifty TO seventy
five bushels per day.
shelters furnished with these machines. As
fast as the ears OF corn are shoveled into an
ample hopper, the cObs will be carried out
nj the other end of the machine while the
corn passes down through spout into q
measure.
The wood saw makes from 5000 10 1900 re-
vOlutions per minute. The velocity is so
great that q stick or seasoned black birch
measuring seven inches on three sides can
he cut of in second; and n quarter OF a
cord OF stove wood can DE sawed from three
feet sticks after the propelling power has
been disconnected. The Sitting saw runs
with still greater speed and can slit one
bundred and twenty feet OF inch board by
the momentum after the belt Is thrown of.
The planning machine will nicely plane
the surface Ola board or plank eighteen In
chCs wide az rapidly as carpen-
ter at the bench passes over the edge o. q
board with joiner. Planning and saving
are both done at the same time with one
machine by one horse power.
The straw cutter IS a self.feedlng machine
and cuts with great rspidity any length re.
quired. It's strength and velocity Is SO great
IL will cut OFF piece OF Georgia pine board
six inches wide and one iuch thick at each
revolution OF the knife without ipiuring
the machine or Stacking Its motion per,
ceptihiy.
The cider mill hos no equal. The apples
are cut into the merest shTeds no longer
Tran the fine blades of lawn grass. The
seeds pass through the cutter VIII ole leaving
none OF their bitter flavor to the cider. All
the cells in the apples are broken, the Juice
is all obtained and after the press Is applied
TO the pomace nothing but q meal Is left.
The root cutter shaves the roots in fne
slices and deeS Il as rapidly as a man can
shovel potatoes.
The feed mill grinds with rapidity from
eight 10 Twelve bushels per hour with one
horse, leaving the meal as Ii comes from the
mill perfectly cool and ready for bagging
without Injury from heat. This last ma
chine completes combination which per-
mIts farmer 10 thresh his rye and oats,
shell his corn, mixing and grinding the
same and cut the straw wherein TO feed
with single machine and single horse.
witnessed by large numbei of farmers and
who express not only their
warm appreciation OF them, hut their as
and qualification IN beholding
the degree OF perfection and cheapnes OF
machinery"