Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-07-28
Correspondence Of the Signal.
OswEGo, Odd July, 1916.

Ject OF gathering IN their crops. mcCor-
mack's Reapers have found very extern
sive sale in this county, and thus far have
given great satisfaction. They are GER
tainly of great Importance in a wheat
growing region. have seen them work,
and been delighted with the admirable
perfection of their work. But just at the
moment when every one was exciaiming
in favor of them, there came along the le-
viathan harvester do not know what
name has been given to it-but it cuts,
threshes, cleans, and puts in bags alb tut
twenty acres a day. 1t requires about
ten horses and four or five hands to keep
it in motion, and it certainly does up its
work most admirably. Ispent an after
noon in witnessing its operations, and l
assure you it is no humbug. But it is a
leviathan machine for harvest field. II
almost reminds one of the steamboats, that
sail upon our broad lakes. Hcosts from
three to four hundred dollars. and its pro-
prietor viii harvest with it for $3.00 an
acre or one shilling bushel, and says he
can make money as fast he wants to at
that. The worst objection | sec to this
kind of machine is, that wheat must be
left standing till too ripe before it can be
harvested to advantage. However, we
have leviathan farms here, and must have
leviathan machinesto correspond. have
already heard one old farmer express the
opinion that these machines would take
the place of all othor means of harvesting;
and they are now proposing to build barns
for granaries, with two floors, and horse
power to use for an elevator, by which
means they could with very little trouble
expose their wheat to the air until it be-
came perfectly dry. L hey say they can
do this with infinitely less trouble than
harvest in the old way, and then thresh
and store their grain; besides being much
cheaper. Indeed, this is an age of i'm
proyement. l should not wonder if we
should soon hear of attaching gristmill.
cooper shop, and hog pen, to the tail of
one Of these harvesters.
Almost six miles from here is house
built of quicklime and gravel-walls %
by % feet, 10 high, and s inches thick,
and partitioned throughout with the same
material, which cost for furnishing mate
rails and laying up the walls, the trifiing
sum of fifty-three dollars was surprised
to observe the hardness of these walls
almost if not quite equaling the hardest
granite. 1t was built by setting up two
plank, eight inches apart, and filling up
with the lime and gravel, mixed in pro-
portions of seven bushels ofgravel to one
ofiime. 1t is a most simple way of build
ing, and with a single smooth coat out
side and in, would make a very neat look
ing dwelling. In a country where lum-
her is as scarce as in this, plan of this
kind cannot fail to be ofimmense value.
The more see of this beautiful Fox
River region, the better like it. The
Imagination can hardly picture is agricul-
tural wealth. / could point you to men
here having more than two thousand
bushels of oats and corn on hand, of last
years growth and yet they neither MUIR
mur al low prices nor evince any great
desire to get rid of it. They are so ac-
customed to surplus that it does not
strike them as any thing out of the way.
Yet, with all this old crop on hand, the
present harvest is bringing in another pro-
fusion, and the farmers are busy in taking
care oft. hear very few murmus about
the market. They are generally out of
debt, and say they can raise grain at
a profit at present prices. as
Iperceive the address of Mr.. Killpat.
rick, whig candidate for governor, has in
measure reused the wings to take ground
once more in favor of a State bank. A
more infatuated measure could hardly
have been expected from any party. |
have taken occasion to converse with peo-
pie more upon this topic than any other,
and do not believe if the question were
this day presented to the wing party of
this State in a manner utterly uncon-
nected with party politics or party
prejudices, that the wings themselves
could raise out oftheir own party ma.
jority in favor of bank. Even the hon.
estportion ofthe wings cannot without a
shudder contemplate the stupendous frauds
that have been brought upon the people at
large. bythat iuiquitous system. In con-
nexIon with this, must give you a little
incident occurring within a few days.
A conntryman came into one of the
stores and asked the trader, who was a
wing, ii he would change dollar bill and
give him pound oftobacco; at the same
time remarking that he had offered it al
another store, and it had been refused,
without discount The wing merchant
Immediately looks at his detector, and
says they were loco focos at the other
store, but he is willing to take all such
money. He weighs out the tobacco,
changes the bill, and the man went of
with countenance expressive of the ut
most satisfaction. After he had gone, the
merchant shrewdly remarked that the bill
was at a.discount, but he had putthe dis.
count on the price Of the tobacco and Ia.