The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-28
From the Broome Republican

"Thera are now ten machines attached 10
the power, on single frame, namely; A
Thrtsher, q corn shelter, Sitting saw,
root cutter pIaner, borer, a wood saw,
n cider mill, grist mill, and a straw and
cornstoCk cutter. Th9 machine may be
multiplied 10 any extent until almost every
variety used In shops and manufactures
and IN farming Is added -.
Every machine is as complete in Itself MS
though the whole apparatus had been con-
strrcted for either one ofthem. 80
The machinery can be changed by. two
men from wood saw 10 a threshing mas
chine in fifty five seconds the change Gem
a threshing m. chine To q sitting saw with
table is easily done inside of two minutes
the change from q Sitting saw TO cider
mill is done in less than minute; from
cider mill TO root cutter the change re-
uuires less than half minute and IL Is
changed from Il cider mill TO corn shelter
in from three 10 i've minutes; and TO a tod.
der cutter, grist mill or pianer IN about the
same length OF time ...E.
There is nothing complicated about the
machinery, no more than there is about an
OK carr, and farm hands OF the ordinary in
telligs nee can run 1t successfully There is
nothing about IL 10 break 10 make extern
siye repairs necessary.
What the Machine will do can be told in
q few words, they do their work well, The
threSher lor instance will thresh any kind
OF grain as fast as one man can cut the
straw through the machine while several
men will he needei to bind the straw and
take away the grain, This thresher with
one horse has tbrGshed as fast az one hun
dred and four bundles OF Rye in seven min
utcs and thirteen seconds. The capacity of
the thresher must therefore be judged by
the dexterity OF the man or mt n that use 1t.
Sticks or stones or briars do not effect the
machine as the fails are hung SO that they
will ,cOmmoda themselves TO the char.
acter or the material they come in contact
with. Smaller machines pre made TO run
by hand that thresh from fifty 10 seventy
five bushels per day. r
No other corn shelter resembles the cor
shelters furnished with these machines. As
fast as the ears OF corn are sboyeled into an
ample hopper, the coDs will he carried ont
at the other end of the machine while the
corn passes down through spout into
measure.
The wood saw makes from 5000 10 1900 re-
vOlutions per minute. The velocity is 70
great that Il stick OF seasoned black birch
measuring seven inches on three sides can
be cut OF in n second; and quarter OF a
cord Of stove wood can be sawed from three
feet sticks after the propelling power has
been disconnected. The Sitting saw runs
with still greater speed and can slit one
hundred and twenty feet OF inch board by
the momentum after the belt is thrown of.
The planning machine will nicely plane
ches wide as rapidly as a carpen-
ter at the bench passes over the edge OF 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-!ceding machine
and cuts with great rapidly any length re.
qulred. It's strength ana velocity is 50 great
II will cut off pieca of Georgia pine board
six inches wide and one inch thick at each
revolution OF the knife without injuring
the machine or Stacking its motion per.
Ceptibly.
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 ole leaving
none OF their bitter flavor to the cider. All
the cells in the apples are broken, tie Juice
is all obtained and after the pres Is applied
20 the ponace nothing but o meal Is left.
The root cutter shaves the roots in fine
slices and dees 1t as rapidly as man can
shovel potatoes.
The feed mill grinds with rapidity nom
eight To 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. This last ma
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 % feed
with irgle machine and single horse.
The operation Of these machines is daily
witnessed by large numbe OF farmers end
machDgcts, who express not only their
warm appreciation OF them, but their as
constituent and grsl ification in bekolding
the degree OF perfection and cheapness OF
l2boT-saying machinery"