New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-03
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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
tbrashng and winnowing wheat in the old way
is ten cents per bushel, the Belgian thrasher
reduces this to about four cents; tie 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 fail-thrsshing in the old
way. This years crop of Wheat, Rye and Buck
wheat in the United States can hardly fall be-
low 200 OOO,0 600 bushels, which could only be
separated from the straw and chat in the old
way at q cost of S20,000,O0O. The Belgian
thrasher, if in common use, would reduce this to
Sc, OOO, 900; the French to &c. 900, 900; the Eng
lish to g. 600, 900; and the American to some g.,
500, OOC-a clear National saving of Sl7 500, 900
per annum in the cost of thrashing and winnow-
ing our small grain alone And the saving to
France from the substitution of Pitts's thrasher
for the best of her own invention can hardly be
less than ten millions of dollars per snnum
So with regard to Reapers. The time required
for cutting equal portions Of heavy and badly
lodged Wheat by the several European machines
ranged from half an hour to an hour and half while
the three American machines cut an equal area
as follows:
Hu.eeys, with wrshts mprovemensJ In 10 minutes
Msnnys ian Illinois machine,) In Is minutes
MCCONNELL, (opersied by McKenzie,l in 10. minaes
Weventure to say that this last was the quickest
time ever made in cutting grain, even though we
assume that the area cut was not more than two
thirds Of an acre. And, without at all detracting
from the merit of the victorious machine, we be-
leye q large share of the credit is due to j. c.
Mckenzie thorough Yankee, who won the tri
umph for Mccormick in England at Mechi's farm,
in Is5l-and who as a manager and operator Of
this class Of machinery, has no superior There are
probably not Ave men living who could have raked
of the cut grain into sheafarmfuls at the unprece-
dented speed Of McCormick's reaper in the recent
trial.
It thus appears that, in the public Official
testing Of both reaping and thrashing machines,
open to all the world, and in which all the good
machines of Europe must necessarily have been
represented, erery American machine entered
proved immensely superior to erery European ma
chine. That is to say: Of our four reaping or
thrashins machines sent to Paris to compete
with the thirty or forty best machines of Eu-
rope, each ono of our four proved superior to
the best rival machine that Europe could pro-
duce So complete a National triumph was
never before achieved in any worldwide arena
of Industrial competition.
The value of these American machines is i'm.
mensely enhanced by their adaptation to both
grain and grass; Mccormick (snd we presume
the Others as well) being altered frsm reaper to
amower by touch of the operator hand in the
course OF a few seconds. Thousands of farmers
who could not afford the cost and shelter of two
separate machines for moving and reaping can
buy one that will subserve both uses, and which
may thus be kept at work from the commence
LII. Mt of hsyng to the close Of buckuaest harvest
late in autumn. By.snd.Sy, when all cattle in
the older States kept In stan or yard, and fed
on cut grass, instead of being allowed to trample
and waste the immature heritage in pastures, the
area moved will be far larger, and the value
of such machines considerably greater than at
present.
We trust those who have all summer been
grumblng over the mesgerness of the American
display in the Paris Exhibition as if it implied
some fault on the part of those who sent contr.
buttons, instead of those (if either class) who
sent nothing, and who have ignorantly, peevlshly
regretted that our country was represented there
at all, are now silenced. It would have been alb
surd to send over fabrics ministering to luxury
or ostentation, wherein our artisans are motto.
riously behind those Of Europe; but it was well
to send NEST of the inventions and products
we did send; il would have been wise if some
more of our inventors and makers Of usefal i'm
plements had seen fit (if able) to exhibit there.
Some Americans derive both fame and fortune
from that Exposition; and in earning these they
will have worthily, ussfully aided to exat the
reputation and increase the moral power Of their
country. Who can considerately say that these
should have forborne, merely because others,
who ought to have exhibited likewise, saw fit to
send nothing
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