Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1858 — The Value of Mowing Machines. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Mowing Machines.

Pemberton, New Jersey, is a grass-grow-ing region; and although fanners know the value of “making hay while the sun shines, 7 ’ they were not able to ddrilt lijll mowing machines came to their aid. “<>n one farm,” writes a friend in that section, “through the use of Mann’s machine, we succeeded, during nine days, in cutting, curing and putting within doors, seventy tuns of hay—the proceeds «f thirty-two acres; while one of our neighbors, in fourteen days, with the use %f a similar machine, cut arid housed over one hundred and fifty tuns—tire growth of seventy peres.” Similar instances might- he produced, hut those met,tion.ml arc sufficient to show the value to a farmer* of a good mowing machine. Thueshinu WrtKAT by Steam.—Tlio local editor of the. State Journal has-witnessed tho thre]shing of wheat by steam on the farm of Mr. Hirkenmayer, near Indianapolis. The boiler and engine were manufactured in that city. The process of threshing by steam does not cost so much as the horsepower noW generally in rise, while tTic engine is less.troublc to take care of, and occupies less room, than horses. It can be ~readily moved from place to place.