Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-02

VVJS pVVA iH mVuhdhB iuto the morse powers
and running them, gave constant demonstra.
ton Of the ease with which they were pro.
PEELED The judgment Of the skilled me.
chanics who were upon the committees was
in full accord with the public opinion, for at
both these fairs the Grays took the fret pre-
MUM for the 4" Best Horse Power Threshing
Machine" aud also for their winnowing and
wood saving machines. As this verdict has
been endorsed at every fair where they have
competed, we believe we are fully justified
in placing at the top Of this article the words
that are there.
Not satisfied with these awards, however,
the inventors are constantly laboring to inn
prove their work, and
Recent improvements
have produced horse power seemingly as
near perfection as such machine can be
made. The machines are so constructed,
running upon friction rollers on cast steel
rods, that the friction Of the machinery is
but triAe, securing aud applying the whole
power Of the horse to the work to be done.
The rroprietors claim that they have the
lightest and most durable machine of the
Kind in use, and not without reason. The
bearing is made mostly Of wrought iron, and
the whole is constructed with view to light
ness, strength, durability. and to work with
the greatest dispatch. Their one horse pow.
er will saw twenty cords of four foot wood,
twice in two, in day, Or thresh and clean
from 80 to 40 bushels oats per hour A
two horse power will do more than that.
We saw in the St. Adams Messenger not
long since, statement from b. NJ. Ballard,
Of Fairfax, in Franklin County, that he
sawed with one Of A. W. Gray & Sons
two horse power machines, four cords Of hard
wood, twice in two, in thirty-6ve minutes,
also, at another time, twenty-seven cords OF
wood, twice in two, in eight hours, including
delay in moving and setting machine three
times" Correspondents Of the FARMER, as
our readers have noticed, are constantly not.
ing the heavy days works they are doing
with this horse power. They seem to be SO
pleased with their purchase that they cannot
refrain from rushing into print to express
theil satisfaction. But of the merits Of the
power as a labor-saving machine there can
be no question. We see them everywhere
in this section Of Vermont They are be.
coming as common, indeed as indispensable
as the mower and horse rake. The demand
from the west is increasing, and the machines
are now sent to all parts Of the country, and
the time is not far distant when the Gray
railway horse powers will take the place o
the ten horse lever powers Of the West. AZ
these machines are introduced into the wheat
growing countries Of the West, they find the
Gray machines much better than these lever
ten horse powers, not only in saving expens,
in threshing, but in saving OF grain, as wei
as in convenience in using.
The Grays employ no travelling agent
nor are their machines consigned. Everyone
is sold before it leaves their factory, and arr
ordered as fast as they can make them L
is matter of pride to us that Vermont ha
produced mechanics Of their skill and inge
nuity, and matter Of pride, too, that Yer
monters have originated and perfected tn
best machines of the class in the world