The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-09-26
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AMERICAN TRIUMPH I'm EUROPE


AMERICAN TRIUMPH I'm EUROPE.
The United States contributions to the
great Exhibition in Paris have not made
much show, but, on being put to the test,
it seems that they are of very valuable
character. The New Y ork Tribune gives
the subjoined account of the trials of the
machines for threshing, reaping and NOW
ing:
The net results of half-hour's earnest
work by the rival threshers, and by SIX
men with fails, ESTIMATED as force equal
to one of the machincs,) is as follows:
six threshcrs with fails, 60 litres of wheat.
Pitts American Thresher, 74O
Clayton's English !" 4I0
Dunoir's French .' $50
p;nct,s Belaian u $50
IThe French litre is a little less than quart;
36 iitres make a bushel, very nearly.]
Assuming, in the absence of data, that
these machines are of equal cost, and are
worked with equal force, and that the
average expense of threshing and win
moving wheat in the old is ten cents per
bushel, the Belgian thresher reduces this
to about four cents, the French to three,
the English to two, and the American to
barely more than one per cent per bushel,
or one-tenth of the cost of fail-threshing
in the old way. This years crop of wheat,
rye, and buckwheat in the United States
can hardly fall below 200, 100000 bushels,
which could only be separated from the
straw and chaff in the old way at g cost
of 500, 100000. The Belgian thresher.
if in common use, would reduce this to
So, 100000, and French to Sc, 900,
the English to 1900, 600, and the Amer
lean to some $4,000, ,oOo,--a clear nation
al saving of $l7, ,5e0,000 per annum in
the cost of threshing and winnowing our
small grain alone! And the saving to
France from the substitution of Pitts
thresher for the best of her own inyen-
ton can hardly be less than $40, 100000
per annuln.
So with regard to reapers. The time
required for cutting equal portions of
heavy and badly lodged wheat by the sew
eral European machines, ranged from
half -an-hour to an hour and d-a-half, while
the three American machines cut anequal
area as follows: ,aif
Hussey's with Wright's improvements)
in eighteen minutes.
Nanny s, Gan Illinois machine,) in six
teen minutes. #
McCormick's Operated by McKe Kenzie,) }
lin lOa minutes.
+ We.venture to say that this last was the
quickest time ever made in cutting grain;
even though we assume thattthe area cut
was not more than two-thirds of an acre.
And, without at all detracting from the
merits of the victorious machine, we be-
llieye share of the credit is due to j. G.
Nc Kenzie-t thorough Yankee, who won
the triumph for Nc Cormick in England,
at Mechi's farm, in 1S51-and who, as a
manager and operator of this class OF
machinery, has no superior. There are,
probably, NOT five men living who could
have ra1ed off the cut grain into sheai
armfuls at the unprecedented speed OF
Nc Cormick's reaper in the recent trial.
1t thus appears that, in the public oil
cial testing Of both reaping and threshing
machines open to all the, world, and in
which all the good machines of Europe
must necessarily have been represented,
every Anaer'can machine entered proced
Immensely superior to erery European ma
| chine. That is to say: Of our four reap
ing or threshing machines sent to Paris to
compete with the thirty or forty best ma
chimes of Europe, each one of our four
proved superior to the best rival machines
that Europe could produce! So COM
plete a national triumph was s'never before
achieved in any worldwide arena of In
dustrial competition. a -s