John Huber and Henry Snell, Girard, Ill.--This machine may be used
simply for stirring up and turning the hay, or for turning the hay and
gathering it into windrows. The shaft of a reel revolves in bearings
attached to the side bars of the frame near their rear ends. To the
bars of the reel are attached spring teeth, which, as the machine is
drawn forward, take hold of the hay, carry it up and over the reel,
and drop it to the ground in the rear of the machine. A carrier takes
the hay from the teeth, when it has been brought to the top of the
reel, carries it over the shaft, and discharges it into a trough, down
which it slides, and is deposited in a windrow along one side of the
path of the machine.