New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-10
MACHINERY IN AGRICULTURAL HALL.

MACHINERY IN AGRICULTURAL HALL.
On each occasion when the world comes up to the
international contests the advancement i'll the ma
chineTy of the farm becomes manifest One of
the first agricultural machines ever used was the
thrasher, which was introduced in the Lowlands of
Scotland shortly before the end Of the last century.
Nearly thirty modern thrashers in the Hall to-day
exhibit the gradual accretiOn Of invention directed
10 adapting this a.hine 10 different kinds of grain
and seeds and its great perfection as compared with
its Scotch prototype. The reaping machine began
10 struggle into notice only about 1900 To-day
about 100 reapers and mowers are exhibited in the
Hall, many of them finished beautifully pieces
Of jewelry and with refinement Of adaptation to
various duties alike delightful to the mechanic and
the farmer. The Exhibition shows among other
things still further improvements in the automatic
binder Who, few years since, would have con-
ceiyed it possible that a man should drive ma
chine into field and 60 round and round leaving
the grain in sheaves in rowSi Yet this is done now
in good style Mccormick and Walter A. Wood each
have automatic binders in the Hail. and others may
be there during the fair. Flows are in great force
One fine set from South Bend Indiana, shines in the
glory of goldplatng, and is said TO have cost $1,000
per plow Nearly 300 Of this class of implements
are shown in the Hall-stubble and sod prairie
pairing plows, and with double mold boards for
rldging up; gang and sulky plows, mole and ditch
ing plows. IIarrows, rollers, and various forms If
cultvstors single and double shovel pows for row
crops; seed drhls, planters potato planters III
diggers are all exhibited in profnSiOn. There IS
scarcely an operation in tillage that is not provided
for by improved machines. No function III agT1-
culture seems to be forgotten, but the adj
vance is "all along the line" Every concciva-
be invention for the cultivation and handling
Of crops and for the saving Of labor is represented
The displays of edge tools, axes, grain and grass
scythe slckles and hay knives and other far
mers INDICTMENTS are very striking The Canadian
exhibit "a this ball is particularly good in reapers,
mowers plOws harrUws, root and straw cutters and
b0rse-powers: The variety IN plows is If anything
greater than IN our own show, although the number
Of plows is much small or. The turn p-Criu i'm tbe
Canadian collection is evidence of cnlfure different
from ours. With poor climate for corn they make
turnips and peas stand them IN good stead. OF the
excellence and profusIOn OF their wheat barley rye
oats potatoes and grass. there is no need to sneak
Canada has also portable engines cider presses po-
tsto-diggeTs sBOw-plows for breaking winter roads
grain drills, and hay leaders.
The larger portion Of the European machinery i'm
this Hall is not yet taken out of the cases. France
has a collection Of buhrs both IN panes and stones
Two horses, stuffed, stand IN her section; they are
perhaps intended for Percherons and are TO bear
French harness Austria sends malt dryers. England
has here, as IN the Main Building, iron stone ware
paran teIraCOtta; various ceramic works the coarse
and merely useful and the al She also nds
wire cloth and screens aud hand flour mills probably
for Use III her colonies Last appears Liberia; with
o variety of production she segds some cloth woven
la narrow breadths and sewn together also the loom
on which 1t Is made. The loom, shuttle, and all