SUCCESSFUL BINDER TRIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9151, 5 September 1888, Page 6

SUCCESSFUL BINDER TRIAL.

THE BUCKEYE IN THE WAIKATO. On Friday last a number of farmers and gentlemen interested in harvesting called at Messrs. T. and S. Morrin and Co.'s warehouse in High-street, to see the first of the new Lowdown Buckeye Reapers and Binders, which arrived by the Zealandia a few days previously. The arrangement of the mechanism on this machine particularly adapts it for hillside crops, and for holdings where rough or uneven ground is met with ; although, of course, it is equally well able to handle any kind of crop on the plains. Only one canvas is employed, and as the weight of the elevator is entirely dispensed with, the draught is considerably less than any of the old type of machine. The Buckeye is essentially a two-horse machine, requiring no transport appliance for travelling. Its measurement over all is 10 feet 4 inches, and in moving from paddock to paddock it is unnecessary to unhitch tho team or detach any portion of the machine. The Binder has full range of adjustment, and dispenses with the intermediate gears in use on other machines, whilst the knotter u'-ed is a simplified form of the Appleby, cc isisting of fewer parts, all of which are in full view and quite easy of adjustment. General satisfaction was expressed at the construction and special features of this machine, one gentleman of acknowledged experience cancelling his orderfor aHornsby in favour of the Buckeye. On Monday this machine was sent to Ohaupo, to be exhibited at the market, and a notice having appeared in the Waikato Times that it would be there, a large number of farmers put in an appearance during the day, and expressed a wish to test it in a paddock of thick green oats adjoining the township. Mr. G. M. Percival, the expert in charge, agreed to do so, and a couple of horses having been obtained, the machine commenced its work. There was no hitch from the start, the cutting and binding giving the greatest satisfaction to all who were present. The crop was very thick and green, altogether a difficult one to handle, and the farmers who followed the machine assert that it would have been impossible for any other binder to cut it. Not a single word of adverse criticism was heard, and the general impression was that the Buckeye Lowdown has established itself in the Waikato. Fuller particulars will appear in an early issue.