each,  while  a  platform  extending  back  top
ceives  the  bundles,  until  about  a  dozen  acr
cumulates  when  by  pushing  a  lever  the  plati-
form  cants  down  letting  the  bundle^  alide
off,  and  a  spring  then  brings  it  back  in
place.  It  was  cutting  in  heavy  wheat,  cut-
ting five  feet,and  tequired  four  hutidrea  and
seventy-five  ponnds.  Three  men  haye  nd
difficulty  in  binding;  nearly  or  quite  the  |
labor  of  one  hand  is  saved  in  shocking*  If
this  machine  will  not  do  as  much  work  aOr
some  others,  [t  hat  the  quality  of  sating'
more  grain,  and  doing  the  work  bettel:,!
than  any  other  machine.  We  are  not  aVrare
that  any  of  these  machines  are  now  mad$:
or  sold;  this  and  one  in  Coles  county  are
the  only  ones  of  the  kind  that  have  found
their  way  into  this  section  of   the  country.'

The  next  was  an  Atkin's  machine  on  the
farm  of  John  Walkington,  adjoining  the
TJrbana  Nursery.  This  was  working  with
three  horses,  and  Mr.  W.  says  cutting  13
to  15  acres  per  day.  The  draft  wa8.450'
lbs.  This  machine  was  doing  excellent
work  in  heavy  wheat,  that  will  probably^
turn  thirty  bushels  to  the  acre.  We  niext
went  to  the  fields  of  Messrs.  Carle  and
Thomas,  in  which  is  a  thousand  acres  in  one
field,  about  dozen  machines  were  cutting  ia
this  field,  the  first  of  which  we  tried  was  the
Urbana  Reaper,  made  by  Wilson  &  Rob-
inson. The  measure  inside  the  guards  it
five  feet  nine  inches,  draft  316  pounds  in
wheat  of  twenty  bushels  per  acre,  does  ex-
cellent work  and  runs  easy.
