1846-02-01 New York Farmer & Mechanic - Shanks Mower

NEW YORK FARMER AND MECHANIC.

The Spirit of American Institutes.

Wm. H. Starr, Proprietor.

Vol. IV.

NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY, 1846.

Samuel Fleet, Editor.

No. 2--14.

MOWING MACHINE - A new mowing machine, on nearly the same principle as that patented by Budding, has been in operation during this summer, at the Duke of Newcastle's mansion, at Clumber Park, in Nottinghamshire. It has been found very much to facilitate the keeping in order of the lawns, the mowing of which, by the ordinary physical process, is both tedious, and laborious; and the consequence of this facilitation is, that the lawns have been very much improved. The editor of the "Gardeners' Journal" thus speaks of it from personal inspection "The machine has been in constant use in the garden at Clumber for upwards of three months. It is constructed on the principle of Budding's patent mowing machine, but altogether stronger, and, of course, less liable to go out of repair; the cutters are forty-two inches in length; it is drawn by one horse, requiring a boy to lead the horse, and a man to direct the machine. Though it has been in almost daily use for nearly four months, it has not required any repairs. The saving of labor has been found to amount to seventy per cent." - Hort. Mag.