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New Zealand Mail, Issue 873, 23 November 1888, Page 6

THE BUCKEYE LOWDOWN REAPER AND BINDER.

(WAIKATO TIMES.) Mr John Owen, of Messrs Morrin and Co., on Tuesday last, had on exhibition at Obaupo, one of the Buckeye Lowdown reapers and binders, a machine, which at present-, is commanding considerable attention in the farming of the colqny pn account of the nearness with which it comes to a perfected harvester. In the firs place, the machine only weighs 9Qolbs, thus being in dead weight about SOOlbs lighter than the general run of harvesters, and consequently there is a good deal of horse labour saved from this cause. A man driving the machine is able to do the whole of it withon moving from his seat, the whole of the lever fieing within easy reach of his hand. As the weight of tbe gearing, etc. is mostly all on the platform side of the driving wheel, the risk of capsizing on even steep eidlings, is reduced to a minimum. W e may here otat that this class of machine has'been success fully worked iu the Southern provinces on ground that is very steep, doing the work as well as any hack delivery machine, thus effecting a great saving in manual labour. The measurement of the Lowdown is 10ft 6in, and therefore it is capable of being moved through any ordinary gateway easily, thus doing away with the necessity of the transport carriage required with the elevator machines. The tightness with which the shpaves are tied gives this machine an advan tage over most others. When tha sheaf io held (floes np to the knotter plate, and when relaxed has, instead of six inches, about ouly three to expand to fill up the band. The plunger bolt, which, in the knotter of previous machines, required so much regulation, has been done away, and in the present knotter, should any paTt get out of gear, it can be re-adjusted at once. By the permission of Mr W. Hunter, so-ir., a practical test of the working of the machine was given on some green oats, and the manner in which the cutting and binding were done on the green crop quite convince those present that the machine was just the one required for this district.' Messrs E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd. hav only a limited number of these machines on hand, and farmers will require to make early application. The Auckland agents sold ont their entire stock, and seve'ral orders have been booked for these machines in the South. Pamphlets are ' obtainable "frbm Messrs E. W. 'Mills and Co., and the machine will be exhibited at the Carterton and Masterton iSiiowg o,n the Ist and 23rd November. It will be necessary to bespeak machines before the show, as stocks to arrive are already nearly absorbed.

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