Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-09-15
AMERICAN TRIUMPH 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 u valuable character. The
New York Tribune gives the subjoined &C
count of the trials of the machines for thresh-
ing, reaping and moving:
The net results of half hours earnest
work by the rival thrashers, and 10y six men
with fails, ESTIMATED as force equal to one
of the machines,) is as follows:
Six thrashers with fails, 60 litres wheat
Pitts American Thrasher, 740
Clayton's English " 4l0
Dunoir's French " $50
Pinet's Belgian $50
TThe French htre is little less than quart:
36 litres 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 thrashing and winnowing wheat
in the old way is ten cents per bushel, the
Bell ian thrasher reduces this to about four
cents, the French to three, the English to
to two, and the American to barely more
than one cent per bushel, or one-tenth Of the
cost of fail thrashing in the old way. This
years crop of wheat rye and buckwheat in
the United States can hardly fall belo'v 200,-
100000 bushels, which could only be separa-
ted from the straw and chaff in the old way
at cost of S20,000,000 The Belgian
thrasher, il in common use would reduce this
to Ss.00O,0 900, the French to $4,000, 900, the
English to S4,000000 and the American to
some S2500,000-a clar national saving o.
S17,500,000 per annum in the cost of thrash
ing and winnowing our small grain alone =
And the saving to France from the substitu
ton of Pitts thrasher for the best of her Owl
invention can hardly be less than ten millions
of dollars per annum.
So with regard to reapers. Tho time re
quired for cutting equal portions of heavy anC
badly lodged wheat by the several European
machines, ranged from half an hour to al
hour and half while the three American
machines cut an equal area as follows:
IIusey's with Wrights improvements,
in Is minutes.
Manny's, IAN Illinos machine,l l6 minutes
McCormick's, Operated by Nick kenzie,) ii
lOt minutes.
We venture to say that this last was tn
quickest time ever made in cutting grain, evel
though we assume that the area cut was no
more than two-thirds of an acre. And, with
out at all detracting from the merits of tn
victorious machine we believe a share Of tn
credit is due to j. G. Mex enzie-a thorough
Yankee, who won the triumph for McCor
mick in England, at Mechi's farm, in ISL
and who, as a manager and operator OF thi
class of machinery, has no superior. Their
are not five men living who could have raket
off the cut grain into sheaf-armfuls at the un
precedented speed of Mccormick reaper il
the recent trial.
1t thus appears that in the public oficia
testing of both reaping and thrashing ma
chimes, open to all the world, and in which al
the good machines of Europe must necessar!
ly have been presented every american ma
chine entered proved Immensely superior to er
cry European machine. This is to say o
our four reaping or thrashing machines sen
to Paris to compete with the thirty or fort
best machines of Europe. each one of our fou
proved superior to the best rival machine
that Europe could produce So complete
national triumph was never before achieve
in any world wide arena Of industrial compc
tition.