The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-07-13

Progress.
The decided Improvement in financial mat.
tiers and the abundant harvest which now pro-
misses to crown the toll and anxieues Of the in
dustrious yeomanry of Iowa and Minnesota
has set our townsman Robert Grant, who
has been biding better timce, in notion again.
He is one Of the most extensive dealers in
farming implements in the Northwest and is
now almost daily receiving Threshing Machines,
Reapers, Horse Rakes, Grain Cradles &C. &C.,
in endless quantities and selling them too.
We saw in our streets on Saturday morning
ono Of the former Machines as Manufactured
by John A. Pitts, of Buffalo, N. T., snd sold
by Mr.. Craft to Levi Doty, Esq, Of Highland
Township, which far cxccllcd in proportions,
strength, and superiority of finish anything of
the kind that has ever come undct our obscr.
walton, and its good qualities did lot end with
what has boon mentioned. II contained an at
tachment, for measuring and registering the
number of bushels threshcd, and baggng the
grain. This excellent fnvcntionw.s patented
July LIST 1855. The register will correctly
count each half bushcl, thus showibg both far
MGR and thresher the amount ot grain thrcsr.
cd. For out door thrcslsing this improvement
is particularly well adapt d Il win save all the
grain and completely secure Il iron dust, chaff
ard straw. The grain runs from the Tanning
Mill into the Elevator, then % the Reservoir
and measure and then into the hsg. Thus it
not only saves all the grain. but il a saving Of
one man. rel
The Scientific Amcricsn Of March s6th le59,
says Of this Machine -.
-.s isr pheasant agNG5so 20 in the genial
warmth Of an autumnal day, or in the colder
winter, the ,gatherers of tho golden harvest,
thrcshing, winowiDg, measuring and bagging
the grain. to be sent to distant lands or kept at
home to feed our own people during the next
twelve months. These occupations remind
one of the past, and are suggestive Of patri-
archal days and pastoral times. But how much
more interesting is it when we see q simple
moving belt turning machine which does all
these operations c0nsccutively and continuous
~, because it speaks to us of progress and am.
clioration, Of human labor lghtened and of
work performed. True, much of the poetry is
lost, that of association but as much more is
gained, tint of imagination, for it gives US
new ideas of the future, and makes us hone
for q time when men will have more time to
think of ono another and: less of themselves. >
ROBERT is doing the farmers of this country
a heap of good by introducing these improve.
merits in harvesting and thrsshing their grain,
and as he Is in the field asa candidate for their
SURFACES this fall he doubtless expects TO hresh
out all oppssing candidates.
Voices frSm Prairie du Chicn.
In the last Leader are two articlcsrelating
to our late Union FOURTH celebration. One
of the articles is pleasantly apd truthfully
written; the other is not. A comnaunica-
ton has been handed us in reply to the
mean one, but as Rev. Mr.. Radcliff Of the
Prairie assured our people on. Sunday last
that the article in question was as disgust
ing to Prairie du Chen as it is to McGrcgor
we deem it useless to waste words about it.
The Mcdregor S. S. Managers were led
to expect that the boats would he here about
10, and hence the delay in marshalling our
little army to the river. The "barn-yard. -
which this writer found himself or herself
in, is one Of the handscmcst coulccs on the
river and the building, she, she or it, took
for barn, is an Ke-Aouse, now containg 500
tons of that desirable article; it has never
been used for any other purpose, and how
the writer could detect the smell of the barn
passes our comprehension. Possibly the
company who retired to that sylvan retreat
Yilh 4 sK.aow-BsAaAt'' swero 6o9]1AfouSs
though in cleansing thsmsslEss thu
.bsso1 rus1t Snl1,f05 nscIH, uad1. q csdfking
in a stable,
Potatoes. ss-
GREEsE OF the Leader banters ,ls Oh cary
potatoes and garden sass generally. We
had splendid garden but the rains fell and
beat upon that garden and our earliest tres :
sures We're washed away; next year we will
elevate it little and thin Noah may cslnc
if he likes. The rains Of Monday and
Tuesday week or two ago remind us of an
anccdote: go A Methodist preacher stop
ped to dinner, once upon time, and that
time was very dry one. The lady of the
house complained of the drouth and the
preacher proposed to pray for rain. With
little faith the lady knelt and the preacher
made a powerful prayer. In an hour after
he was gone, it commenced raining and con-
tinued till next day, flooding the whole
country and doing immense damage. The
old lady, angry at the excess of the pluvii
visitation, indignantly remarked: ".Fhats
the way with these misunderstanding always
oUer-do everything
Whether our Methodist friends had any,
thing to do with the rains ne refer 10, is ,,ak
clear to US, butiwe know that lstsof -
garden was a8cat and we $780, somp 4
ed to yield the palm Of c. Iisind =
GREENE. Our cucumbers ~ NE I =
eral days ago. =
Crops, &c. 49, e.
The farmers report tho - - &
to talk about the wcafhsG rex =
been awful IA to 80 in1n wc q,
stand this for the sake df1 IA, II 7
crop fairly saaapping ui11v reacls]
its beautifsI biaaea. 11S not i
wen p.issd " llial % ~ ths I