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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1672, 8 March 1890, Page 3

mHE BUCKEYE AHEAD FIEST TEIAL OF THE SEASON. The first trial of the season was held on Monday afternoon on Mr James Smellie's farm, North Taieri, when the Lowdown Buckeye was sent to negotiate a heavy crop of green oats sown down with rye. Having yoked up a pair of Mr Smellie's well-known draughts, Mr Perceval (the expert in charge) started on a preliminary round, followed by several well-known Taieri farmers, each of whom watched its performance narrowly. Its cutting, elevating, and binding was greatly admired, and, although such a crop was naturally heavy to cut and difficult to handle, two horses worked the machine all through without the slightest sign ot fatigue. Every farmer present expressed surprise at the faultless quality of work done, many of them saying that it effectually disposed of the assertions of some of its competitors that the Lowdown was at a disadvantage except on hillside ground. Every reaper and binder claims to cut and bind without assistance on steep sidings. The Buckeye Harvester Company will give £100 to the Otago Hospital if any other reaper and binder will unassisted work on as steep land as their Lowdown. That is, of course, without a man or two squatting on their cills. Two years ago the hillside capabilities of the Lowdown Buckeye were pooh-poohed by agents who have since been obliged by its performances to concede all we claim, and to take a very back seat in this department of harvesting. Hence as a last resource their assertion that the heavy typical props on the Plains would prove too much for it, and hence our selection of the earliest, greenest, and most difficult crop we could find for the puripose of demonstrating the correctness of the judge's decision at the Melbourne Exhibition, Jamestown (S.A.), and the Tictorian Grand National, that the Lowdown Buckeye was undoubtedly the machine of the age. Several well-known farmers havp taken turn after turn without missing a sheaf or delivering a single indifferently shaped bundle, its construction was explained, and its simplicity created general astonishment. A testimonial certifying lightness of draught, ease of management, perfect work and delivery, was signed by Messrs Smellie, Charters, Haggen, Williamson, Smith, Morgan, and others, the latter purchasing the machine, Agents for Tuapeka ; HERBERT AND CO., Lawrence. BUCKEYE HARVESTER COMPANY, Bond and Crawford-streets, Dunedin.