Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-21
SAN 6ranrisro Sduertisenttns.
FARMERS, BEWARE!
CALIFORNIA
REAPER AND MOWER.
Santa Clara Header q Harvester.
HAVING LEARNED FRhrt VA

WING LEARNED FROM VA
IL RIOUS sources that TT adwell a CO. Of this
city, endeavoring to produce the impression in
the farming community that am manufacturing the
Nanny Machine, am once more in the field, 10 as
sert that al such representations are unmitigated
falsehoods.
am not building the Nanny Machine, nor lnfring-
ing on the Nanny PATENT nor do intend to do either;
on the other hand, am building Machine Of my
own Invention, far superior, called the
California Combined Reaper & Mower,
Wholly unlike the Nanny Machine except in the use
o the knife, on which there is not now, has there
ever been, a patent
~ think know what am about. have had too
hnSa mu0n experience as PRACTICAL MECHANIC and
| ana sp spetS 700 much money in obtaining drawings
ri from the Patent Office of the va
session Nc, " - i,sspers, which now have In my pos
| ~a.. % uot 70 know precisely the line accounted bv
patents heretofore obtained and'now In force -
49,, ~. learn ca that am threatened with prosec,,tIous
anu anu tiat sme farmers who may buy Of me will be 49,
ecuted. This Is the old 'BfuFF cA.,s ~ ~ ~" pe Pros-
Preuy wen played out. Fortwo years the eonahIi
e loree nave been playing upon me, not openlS M,
MEANLY and cowARDLY, behind masked battsria % pue
view to the breaking up Of home manufacture a r.
they might the more securely and successlullv con
tnue TO monopolize the agricultural trade and Keen
up prices at rates runous TO the farmer But thns
ar their assaults have been enti ely without sncces
and will continue harmless II am sustained bv tba
farmer, Tor whose interest am steadily at work
The GREAT SECRET OF THEIR UNscRuPUIous ANn rx.
| IhAokDihARY WARFARE upon me at this particular
Time 49, that as the season for selling has commenced
they BEGIN to feel, well as see, that nv CAIIPOR
MA COMBINED REAPER AND MOWER h a decI-
ded success and that unless they can intmidate The
farmer, and force him to buy from them at greater
cost, machines much inferior to NINE they will be
obliged to hold large stock over for next wear. an
unpleasant h~ truly, but Fate decrees that they must
| "grin and bear it," ~
Persons who threaten prosecutions would be much
better employed in actually prosecuting and estab
fishing the truth Of their assertions, than by sending
their hrelngs and secret circulars and letters
out the country, to poison the public mind with sto
ries KNOWN TO BIZ FALSE
Why don't they prosecute me- and let the farmers
aloneY They know full well that they can maintain
no action. AS | said above, they find the ssBluFP
GAME" more successful with the farmer than with me
and consequently the scene of their operations tIfs
year has been transferred from this cly to the farmer
in the country.
REPEAT THAT AM MANUFACTURING THE CAtIFoRsfA
COMDNED REAPER AND MOWER, mot the NANNY and I
have purchased the invention called "Peckis Santa
Cara REAPER AND HARVESTER" which am also man
uacturing, and shall continue to manufacture both
IN nu 7bers equal to the demand And now saw
mat persons who may buy either Of the above ma
cnnes OF me, will If required receiV written guar
antee of indemnity e
Forward your orders, and they shall be filed
| WIN this am done 1 am now and ever have
Deeh, READY FOR THE FIGHT WHENEVER T1R FIGHT oprNs
THOS. OGG SHAW.
| .oo 80 Sacramento Street
] "PA'-i'hls San Francisco.