The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-31
From the Broome Republican.

"Thers are now ten machines attached TO
the power, on a single frame. nsmely: A
Tbresher, a corn shelter, Sitting saw,
root cutter. a planer, borer, wood saw,
a cider mill, grist mill, and a straw and
cornstock cutter. The machine may be
multiplied to any extent until almost every
variety used in shops and manufactures
and in farming is added.
Every machine is as complete IN itself as
though the whole apparatus had been con-
strrcted for either one ofthem.
The machinery can be changed by two
men from a wood saw 10 threshing ma
chine in flfty-five seconds; the change from
a threshing Machine to a Sitting saw with
table is easily done inside OF two minutes |;
the change nom Sitting saw TO cider
mill Is done in less than q minute; from a
cider mill to root cutter the change re-
uuires less than half minute; and IL Is
changed from cider mill TO corn shelter
in from three TO five minutes; and TO iod-
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
telligence can run II successfully. There is
nothing about II 10 break to make extern
siye repairs necessary.
What the Machine will do can be told in
a 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
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
bred and four bundles OF Rye in seven min
utes and thirteen seconds. The capacity OF
the thresher 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 g 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
Ave bushels per day. .J''
No other corn shelter resembles the cor
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 a
measure, ..--s --e. 81.
The wood saw makes from 5000 to 1000 re-
volutions per minutes The velocity is so
great that q stick OF seasoned black birch
measuring seven inches on three sides can
be cut OF In second; and quarter OF
feet sticks alter the propelling power has
been DISCONNECTED. The Sitting saw runs
with still greater speed and can Slit one
bundled and tFenty feet OF inch board by
the momentum after the belt Is thrown OF.
The planning machine will nicely plane
ches wide as rapidly as carpen-
ter at the bench passes over the edge'o n
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.feeding machine
and cuts with great rapidity any length re.
Quired. Its strength and velocity is so great
it will cut off piece OF Georgia pine board
six inches wide and one inch thick at each
revolution Of the knife without iDJuring
the machine or Stacking its motion per.
ceptibly.
The cider mill has no equal. The apples
are cut into the merest snTeds, no longer
than the fine blades OF lawn grass. The
seeds pass through the cutter VIII Die leaving
none Of their bitter flavor 70 the cider. All
the cells In the apples are broken, the Juice
Is all obtained and after the press IL applied
70 the pomace nothing but meal Is left.
The root cutter shaves the roots in fine
slices and does II as rapidly as a man can
shovel potatoes.
The feed mill grinds with rapidity from
eight TO twelve bushels per hour with one
horse, leaving the meal as Il comes from the
mill perfectly cool and ready for bagging
chine completes q combination which per-
mits farmer to 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.
The operation of these machines IL daily
witnessed by large numbers OF farmers and
m2chngcis, who express not only their
warm appreciation OF them, but their as
and qualification in beholdjng
the degree OF perfection and chespness OF
labor-savfnR machinery"