Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-18
San Grantistu 9duertiscmens.
FARMERS, BEWARE!
CALIFORNIA
REAPER AND MOWER.
PECK,S
Santa Clara Header q Harvester.
LEARNED FRoM va

HAVING LEARNED FROM VA
II RIOUS sources that Trcadwel& & CO. of this
city, are endeavoring to produce the impression In
the farming community that am manufacturing lie
Nanny Machine, am once more in the field to as.
sert that al such representations unmitlgated
falsehoods.
am not building the Nanny Machine, nor infriur-
ing on the Nanny PATENT nor do intend to do either;
on the other hand, am building a Machine Of my
own invention, far superior, called the
California Combined Reaper G. Mower.
wholly unlike the Nanny Machine, except In the use
OF the knife, which there is not now nor has there
ever been, a patent.
NM mink know what am about I have had too
haa hren experience as PRACTICAL MECHANIC, and
and snece VOC much money in obtaining drawings
i % peeineations from the Patent Office of the Va
session ot % - Ieapers which have in my pos
,,atan.a - ~ ~ KNOW precisely the line occupied bv
patents heretofore obtained and now IN src "
also learn that am threatened with
anu 'iiat Ihe farmers who may buy OF me- I'm ~ l' '
ecuted This is the old "BLuFF CANE srd % pe pros
pretty weA played out. For two years The cnhl,
iorce nave been playing upon me, not openly. hu,
MEANLY and cowARDLY, behind masked batters , my
view to the breaking up Of home manufactnre' h
they might the more securely and successhllS es @
uhue to monopoze the agricultural trade and kee,,
up prices at rates ruinous to the farmer But th,s
far their assaults have been enti ely yhout succe
ana VIII continue harmless If am sustained by the
farmer, for whose interest am steadily at work
TIE GREAT SECRET OF THEIR UNsoRUPULous AND Fx.
MIkAotDlEARf M WARFARE upon me at this particular
Tune IS, that as the for selling has commenced
ney Detln 70 feeli as well see, that my CAIIF0R
MA COMBINED REAPER AND MOWER 4 a deci
ded success; and that unless they can nmidate tha
farmer, and force him to buy from them at oreats,.
cost, machines much inferior TO mine thew will .
obliged to hold large stock over for next wear. :,
unpleasant h~ truly but Fate decrees that thew mn
"grn and bear it,
Persons who threaten prosecutions would he much
better employed in actually prosecuting, and estab-
fishing the truth of their assertions than by sendin
their hirelngs and secret circulars and letters hroug
out the country to poison the public mind with $40.
ries KNOWN To BE FALSE.
Why don't they prosecute me, and let the farmers
aloneY They know full well that they can maintalr
no action. As | said above, they find the i.pLuF1
GAME more successful with the farmer than with me
and consequently the of their operations thi
year has been transferred from this eily to the farmer
In the country.
REPEAT THAT AM NANUFACTURING THE CALIFoRSfA
CONFINED REAPER AND MowER (not the NANNY and
have purchased the invention called sPeck's Santa
Clara REAPER AND HARVESTER" whicn am also man.
uacturing, and shall continue to manufacture both
In nu 1bers equal to the demand. And now saw
that persons who may buy either Of the above ma.
chnes OF me, will, If required, receiy written guar
antee Of indemnity.
Forward your orders, and they shall be filled =
vain this am done. l am now and ever have
peen, READY FOR THE FIGHT WHENEVER THE FreHr opps
THOS. OGG SHAW.
33 Sacramento Street
"P-'-f"is San Francisco.