Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-09-12

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IT, triumph Of the Nec orraick and other |
Araerican Reaperr !, fhe wo lds Fair. re-
cently held 10 Paris, has been published
the country Since then
.nosher trial ha. been made at La Traps
in the presence Of Prince jerome Aapo-
leon. President, and the Commissioners
aud Jurors Of the Universal Exposition,
which has DEMONSTRATED the superiority
Of AMER an Agricultural Machines over
all others, The triumph was complete
80 perfect aud satisfactory as not TO be
even deba.eable.
This is triumph altogether more desir-
able than any deriveable from our proves
10 srms. We should be proud Of it. 1t re-
reflects more glory upon as nation than
victories achieved BY our able Generals
md brave men.
The Tribune sums up 4he whole matter
as follows:
/. Though France has for several years
been planning and preparing this Worlds
Exhibition Of Industry, We believe the idea
of a trial Of competing Machines therein ex-
hihited is substantially of American origin.
We certainly saw and heard nothing of it IN
Paris until the exhibitors of American reap
If O. machines, who realized that no jury, and
much less the mass of mere visitors, could
form any reliable judgment rs to the merits
of rival machines by merely seeing them
stand idle in an exhibition. determined hav-
ing working test if only OF their own. We
believe the first trial actually made was
private and highly successful one of an
American (ianney's) moving machine, near
the end Of June; to this followed one OF
plows Mt Grignon, in which (there being no
American plows on exhibition at Paris) the
English were adjudged victors then came
the triumphant working of McCormick's
reaper rs q mower, also ut Grignon. the
great Imperial school of scientific farming;
and the results and the fame of these trials
impellcd Prince Jerome-who is naturally
most anxious to render the Exhibition use
| full and memorable-to order IN oficia! trial
test and comparison Of. Agricultural Ma
chimes at La Trappes on the l4th ult.
| Is
mcnse disadvantage because Of the few Anne
rican mach mes on exhibition at Paris
These, we may fairly presume, are better
! than the average of our machines; but it by
no means follows that they are necessarily
the best; much less, that they embody all the
merits Of the whole. We cannot have less
than forty reputable American machines for
thrashing and cleaning grain; bu: Of these
only the single machine Of Pitts (Buffalo) is
on exhibition in Paris. That machine in ef-
feet was brought in direct competition 18th
| all the thrasbers and winnowcrs Of Europe
for there cannot be one Of these worth con-
sidering that is not in the Paris Exhibition,
and would not have been entered for compe-
tition at La Trappes if its hackers had i'm
asined there was chance of its working
oreditably. In regard to reapers, we stood
q better chance, having just three machines
on exhibition and in the field against the
| countless rival devices of Europe.
3. The trials of these machines were nee
essarily rigorous and the results conclusive.
If twenty rival plows are entered for com
petition trinl, there is room FOR conflicting
opinions as to their respective merits. One
observer will say, ssT-ue, A. turned over
more sod or came out ahead; but think
BIS work better done,'' or 81 believe it re-
CURED less power" We know that, since
the application of the dynanometer, trials of
pows are much more decisive than formerly;
but there is still room for demur and cavil.
So with draining, digging, hay-spreading
and other machines, in which the British ex-
hibitors, having no American competitors.
proved successful ut La Trappcs. Butwhere
each reaper rr mower has its acre of grain
or grass measured off to it, and goes in to
cut it down in competition with its rivals,
the Judges must be dull indeed who cannot
form pretty accurate Judgment as to their
respective merits. 1t is indeed possible that
one may perform its task quickly but badly;
another may work rapidly and we'll. but at
the cost of an extraordinary outlay OF power;
third may require more hands than its com
petitors, and so prove efficient but relatively
Improbable. All these discrepancies, how
ever, appear on the surface; the judges must
be blind who fail to perceive and allow for
them. But especially in the case of thrash
ers, where each starts with its ample pile of
sheavcs beside it, works its allotted time,
and has the grain it has beaten from the
straw and separated from the chaf measured
out at the close. there would seem the least
possible chance for demur Or difference as to
the result.
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cured to the community from competing
more forciblv set forth than in this instance
The net results of a half hours earnest work
bv the rival thrashcrs, and by six men with
fails, ESTIMATED as force equal t. one Of
the machines) is as follows:
Six thrashers with fails, so litres of Wheat
Pitts's American Ihyasher, 740 :" ''
| ovtn mol
Dunor's French g $50 " :"
| Pirnt's Belgian g" $50 g ="
(The French lire is a little less than quart 81
litres make bushel, very near'y
Assuming, in the absence of data, that
these machines are of equal cost and are
worked with equal, force, and that the aver
age expense Of thrashing and winnowne
vi eat in the old way is ten cents per bushel
the Belgian thrasher reduces this to abou
four cents; the French to three; the English
to two; and the American to barely more
than one cent per bushel, or one-tenth of the
cost of Aailthrashing in the old way. Thi.
years crop of Wheat. Rye and Buckwhea
in the United States can hardly fall below
200, 100000 bushels, which could only b
separated from the straw and chaff in the oil
way at cost of 100000. The Belgian
thrasher, if in common use, would reduc,
this to $4,000, 900; the French to $4,000,
600; the English to s4,ooo.oo0; and TIT
American to some $4,000 ,000-a clear Ma
tional saving of SIT 100000 per annum il
the cost of thrashing and winnowing GU
small grain alone! And the saving to France
from the substitution Of Pitts thrasher fo
the best of her own invention can hardly b.
less than $40 900 900 per annum!
So with regard to Reapers. The time re
CURED for cutting equal portions of heav.
and badly lodged Wheat by the several Eu
ropean machines ranged from half an hou
to an hour and half, while the three Anne
ricau machines cut an equal area as fol
lows:
Husssys. with wright.s imrrovement,) in is min
utce. - 4s-sez
Mauney's, ian Illinois machine } in % minutes.
Mccormick, Operated by Mckenzie, in 10 l.
minutes
! We venture to say that this was the quick
: est time over made in cutting grain, eve,
though we assume that the area cut was no
more than thirds of an acre. And, withou
at all detracting from the merit of the vic