Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1851-09-04

A5iEaJCa AT TIE WoRLD's FAIR-Ycnh
ingenuity friumphant.--Horace Greedy, wri-
ting from London, July Goth, relates the fol-
lowing circumstance interesting to every A.
merican, as it gees TO show that the United
States, if not brilliant in gewgaws at tue
great exhibition, ta&ee the palm in inventions
Of real practical utility;
"A still more signal triumph for American
ingenuity was accorded on Thursday. Mr.
Mcchi, formerly London merchant, having
acquired a competence by trade, retired sono
years since to Il farm in Essex, about forty
miles of, where he Is vigorously prosecuting
a system Of High Farming, employing tie
most effective implements aud agencies Of all
kinds. He annually has a gathering of dis
tIngulshed farm IS and others to nsrect his
estate and see how his book farming gets on.
This festival occurred day before yesterday
Il sour, dark dTenehing day-notwithstanding
which nearly tWo hundred pereons were pres
ent. Among others, several machines for
cutting Grain We're exhibited and tested, IN
c!udng two (Hussey'S and McCormick's y
from America and an English enc which Was
declared on al hands a mere imitation OF Hus-
gey's. Neither the original nor the copy,
however, appear to have operated to the sa.i.-
faction of the assembly, perhaps owing 10
the badness OF the weather and it's effects
on the daggled unFlpe, grain. With Nc
Cormick's a very different result was obtain.
ed. This machine is we'll known in our " heat
growing districts and | need only remark that
1t ie :de same lately ridiculed 10y one Of the
great London Journals as - cross between
Asiley's chariot, treadmill and flying m--
chine" and its uncouth appearance has been
a standing butt Cor the London reporters at
the Exhibition. II was the ready oxamplar
Of Amerl a distortion and absurditg in the
domain of Art. 1t came into the field of
Mechl's therefore, to confront tribunal mot
the official but the popular) already prepared
for lis condemnation. Before it stood Iol n
Bull, burly, dogged and determined not 90 be
humbugged-his Judgment made MP and his
scntance ready 20 he recorded. Nothing disa
concerted, the Blown, rough, hOmespun Yam
kee IN charge jumped on the box, stating the
team at a smart walk, setting the blades OF
he machine in lively operation, and commen-
Ced Fa6lng of the grain in sheaf-piles ready
for binding, cutting breadth of nine or ten
feet cleanly and carefully, as fast as 4 span of
horses could comfortably step. There was Il
moment and but moment, Of suspense
home prejudice could hold out no longer; and
burst after burst Of involuntary cheers froni
the who'd crowd proclaimed the triumph of
the Nanlee - tread mill" That triurnph has
been the leading topic in all Agricultural cir
c'es. The Times report speaks of it as be-
yond doubt, as placing the harvest absolute.
ly under the farmers contIol, and as ensurinp
a compile e and most auspicious revolution i'm
the harvesting operations Of this country. |
would gladly give the whole account, which
grudginly toward the inventor, but unquali-
hedly as TO to The machine, speaks Of the Ia
ter as securing 10 English farming protec-
ton against climate and an economy of labor
which must prove an incalchlable advantage
Very well for cross between an Astley's
chariot, flying machine, and tread-mill.'''