Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-08
San ofrantistO advertisements.
FARMERS, BEWARE!
CALIFORNIA
REAPER AND MOWER.
ECK'S
Santa Clara Header a. Harvester


HA Wing LEARNED FROM VA
IL RlOUS sources that Tr adwe 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, to as
sert that al such representations are unmitigated
ialsehoods.
am not building the Nanny Machine nor infring-
Ing on the Nanny Patent, do intend to do ether
on the other hand am building a Machine Of my
own invention, far superior, called tie
California Combined Reaper & Mower,
Wholly unlike the Nanny Machine except in the use
OF the knife on which there is not now has there
! ever been, patent.
think know what am about. / have had too
much experience as PRACTICAL MECHANIC, and
anNe a spemt too much. money in obtaining drawings
- lhcauons from the Patent Office, Of the va
i SINUS OF reapers, which now have in my pos
natents br, ~ NoS precisely the line occupied by
/ heretofore obtained and now in force
also learn that am threatened with rrose.,,,,ous
. MY my, I"lneIs VINO may buy of me will be pros-
ecuted This is the old "BLUFP GANp - 81 ~ ~ Pos @
pretty well played out. For two wears ne ,y, @ eei,
force have been playing upon me- not oro,,i I.
MEANLY and CowARDLY, behind masked hattaS ~, SuU
view 70 the breaking up Of home manufacture, that
they might the more securely and successfully con.
tinue to monOpolize the agricultural trade and So
! up prices at rates ruinous TO the farmer But thus
far their assaults have been enti civ without success
and viii continue harmless II sustained nv ths
farmer, for whose interest l am steadily at work
THE GREAT SECRET or THEIR UNsoRUPuLoUs AND TX
| TRAoRDlNARY WARFARE upon me at this particular
tme IS mat as the season for selling has commenced
they be in TO feel, well see, that my CALIFOR
| MA COMBINED REAPER AND MOWER is a deci-
ded success and that unless they can intimdate the
farmer, and force him to buy from them at a greater
cost machines much inferior TO mine they will be
obliged to hold large stock over for next wear, an
unpleasant S, truly, but Fate DEGREES that they must
"grn and bear IT,"
Persons who threaten prosecutions would be nucl,
better employed in actually prosecuting and estab-
fishing the truth Of their assertions than by sending
their hirengs and secret circulars and letters through
out the country, to poison the public mind with 81
ries KNOWN TO BIZ FALSE.
Why don't they prosecute me, and let the farmers
alone? They know full well that they can maintain
no action. As | said above, they find the "BLuFF
GAME more successful with the farmer than with me,
and consequently the of their operations this
year has been transferred from this ciy the farmer
in the country.
REPEAT THAT AM MANUFACTURING THE CALIFORNIA
COMBINED REAPER AND MowsR, mot the Nanny and |
have purchased the invention called "Peekis Santa
Clara REAPER AND HARVESTER" when I am also man
utacturing, and shall continue TO manufacture both,
in nu lbers equal to the demand. And l now saw
that persons who may buy either Of the above ma
chimes of me, will, If required rece written guar
| antee Of indemnity.
Forward your orders, and they shall be filed
with This am done. l am now, and ever have
Deen READY FOR THE FIGHT WHENEVER THE FIGHT OPENS
THOS. OGG SHAW,
33 Sacramento Street
apZ9-imis San Francisco