SUCCESSFUL BINDER TRIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9153, 7 September 1888, Page 6

SUCCESSFUL BINDER TRIAL.

THE BUCKEYE IN THE WAILATO. Os Friday last a number of farmers and gentlemen interested in harvesting called at Messrs. T. and S. Morris sad Cos warehouse in to see tie r:st of the new Lowdown Buckeye Reapers &nd Binders, which arrived by the Znu3.r:izi a few days previously. The arrangement of the mechanism on this machine particularly adapts it for hillside crop?, and for holding; 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 ttan any of the old type of machine. The Buckeye is essentially a two-horse maenme, requiring no transport appliance for travelling. Its measurement over all is 10 :ee; 4 inches, and in moving from paddock to paddock it is unnecessary to unhitcn the 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 k natter used is a simplified form of the Appleby, consisting of fewer parts, all of which are id full view and quite easy of adjustment. General satisfaction was expressed a: the construction and special features ot tuts machine, one gentleman of acknowledged experience cancel his order for a Hornsoy 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 theWaikato 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. ft. M. Pereival, the expert in charge, agreed to do so, ana a couple of horses having been obrained, the machine commenced its work. here 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 seen impossible for any other binder to cut iNot 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. , , Agents for Auckland : Messrs. T. and 5. Morrin and Co. (Limited); and for Wellington, Messrs. E. Mills and Co. (Limited); from whom all particulars can be obtained.