SUCCESSFUL BINDER TRIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9152, 6 September 1888, Page 6

SUCCESSFUL BINDER TRIAL.

THE BUCKEYE IN THE WAIRATft ' Ok Friday last a number of farmers 1 gentlemen interested in harvesting p,fiil \ at Messrs. T. and S. Morrin and Co. warehouse in High-street, to see th« fi N ° ' the new Lowdown Buckeye Reapers °[ Binders, which arrived by the Zealand- , few days previously. The arranged* the mechanism on this machine particul ? . adapts it for hillside crops, and for holrii " where rough or .uneven ground is met w ffi i although, of course, it is equally well hi' to handle any kind of crop on the nla" , Only one canvas is employed, and as tk' weight of the elevator is entirely distvr 7j with, the draught is considerably less th any of the old type of machine. The R* 1° eye is essentially a two-horse mar-V < requiring no transport appliance for tra--'*' i ling. Its measurement over all is iq f i 4 inches, and in moving from paddock** i paddock it is unnecessary to unhitch **' J team or detach any portion of the much--5 The Binder has full ran of adjustment ""h • dispenses with the intermediate $ use en other machines, whilst the°knr~ 7 used is a simplified form of the i consisting of fewer para, all of which i full view and quite easy of adiu.atm fe ? i General satisfaction was expressed at'C" I construction and special features of tli machine, one gentleman of acknowlffj^j . experience cancelling his order for a Horn* i n favour of the Buckeye. " '' SJi On Monday this machine was s ec , i Ohaupo, to be exhibited at the market a A . a notice having appeared in the Waib&f t Times that it would be there, * '^*? I number of farmers put in an appear-^ 6 - during the 'iay, and expressed a r'ik'f 3 test it in v .ddock of thick green qJ. t 3 3 joining i jwnship. Mr. G. M. p ttc • 77* i the expe.. .:i charge, agreed to do so -nrt ' - couple c: worses having been cbuined f"* . machine commenced its work. There'w^ - no hitch from the start, the cutting -^ , i binding g.v.us the greatest Sati-:" c ; ~,-,r^ - all who were present. The cror> was v? ° i thick and green, altogether a dirndl; ov '/ 1 handle, ana -.he farmers who followed t!i 3 machine assert that it would Lave V- . impossible for any other binder to cu* a it Not a single word of adverse criticisaV« r heard, and the general impression WiT.;.,' the Buckeye Ljwdown has establish-] itself in the Waikato. Fuller r-i.-.-r -" '" will appear in an early issue. ~"~~ Agents for Auckland : Messrs. T. and ; 1 Morrin and Co. (Limited; ; and for Wpf a lington, Messrs. E. Mills and Co. (Liiu^-h' f from whom all particulars can be obtained