“MOWING MACHINES IN ESSEX COUNTY

No. 3.  Manny & Co’s. machine, made by Adriance & Co., of Worcester used by Horace Ware, of Marblehead, horses weighing 2100 lbs., cut 54 acres–average time of cutting per acre, 48 1-6 minutes–average quantity per acre, 1 1/2 tons.”

Reference Data:

The Cultivator, 1856, page 27