A NEW THRESHING MACHINE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9007, 17 December 1907, Page 5

A NEW THRESHING MACHINE.

The difficulties attendant on the saving and threshing of cocksfoot and rye grass seeds are well-known to farmers generally, but more especially to those in the bush districts, where "the harvesting of cocksfoot seed is an important industry. The work is now largely reduced by the introduction of a threshiag machine by Mr J. Sheehan, which will, with two men, or one man with a small engine, thresh eight sacks an hour under fairly good conditions. The machine, which has been patented, can be seen at ihe Mascerton Farmers' Implement Works, where Mr Sheehan will fully explain the working of the thresher. The machine is exceedinglysimple, and is easily portable, even in rough country, and the success which attended the work of one of even smaller dimensions than that now on view used last year by the patentee on Banks' Peninsula, where seed-growing is an important industry, proves the value of the machine. It is claimed for the machine that a better farmers' sample can be obtained by the machine than by the ordinary methods hitherto followed, while the output is greatly increased at a minimum price. The patentee's announcement will be found elsewhere.