IMPROVEL HARVESTING MACHINERY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 860, 24 August 1888, Page 19

IMPROVEL HARVESTING MACHINERY.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS,

The first of the new seasoa’s Lowdown Buckeye Reapers and Binders will arrive by the Zealandia on Friday, and will be on view in Auckland, after Tuesday next, and later on in Napier. This machine is lighter by several hundred pounds than any other Binder in the market, aud is built for and worked by two horses in any olass of crop, and with equal facility on the steepest ridges or level plains. Where economic harvesting is a desideratum, the two-horse Lowdown Buckeye is universal favourite ; aud one hundred of thes-e machines have been purchased by an Otago firm for delivery in Dunedin this season. Large orders have also been taken for Canterbury, Wellington, and Auckland, and nearly one hundred of them are now at work in this colony. What the purchasers think of the Buckeye can be seen by the testimonials published by the company in a pamphlet obtainable from the agents. • The whole of the gentlemen whose testimonials arc published are resident in this colony, and are of acknowledged stand, ing and experience. The present type has five years’ improvements upon the original Lowdown. and is quite a horse lighter in draught. The new machine has same breadth of canvas as tho Elevator machines, and is only about half thoir weight. Everyone interested in harvesting, or improvements in harvesting machinery, should call and see the Lowdown Buokeye, and get one of the pamphlets. . .. „ . , The same steamer also Brings the first or the Buckeye Light Mowers and Reapers. These machines are too well known to need any description, and their strength and lightness of draught are universally acknowledged. Much has been said of the English machines, becauso they are so much heavier, and on that account, presumably more durable. This is not the case. They are considerably heavier both iu dead weight and draught; but that they are more durable, nobody who knows the different machines will contend. In Queensland, the colony in which in all probability most mowers are annua ly sold, the Buckeye takes the lead ; aud a hundred indisputable testimonials might be published from that colony, but we withhold them in order to let New Zealand speak. The following letter is from a Canterbury agriculturist of undoubted standing and integrity, and the record is one that will be very hard to beat:— “ Waterton, South Canterbury, “ 9fch June, 1888.

“About five years ago I bought a Buckeye Mower, and since then have out over four thousand acres with her—the first year alone I cut over one thousand, I have on several

occasions cut where mowers of other makers have had to be pulled out, not being ablejto get through the undergrowth. Afier doing the above work with my machine, she is still in qood order. As for draught, she is the lightest I have ever seen, and I would recommend any farmer requiring a mower to buy a Buokeye, and he will be satisfied— Mburs truly ’ “A. Dawson.”

MESSRS. E. W. MILLS & CO. (LIMITED) WELLINGTON have taken the agency for the Buckeye Machines, and have to arrive a shipment of Buckeye Lowdown Reapers and Binders, Mowers, Reapers, and Combined Mowers and Reapers.