Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-28
San cfranristO advertisements.
FARMERS, BEWARE!
CALIFORNIA
REAPER AND MOWER,
PECK s
Santa Clara Header a. Harvester.

HAVING LEARNED FROM VA.
Il 4 RI0US sources that Tr adwell Co., Of this
city, are endeavorng to produce the impression in
the farming community that am manufacturing the
Nanny Machine am once more in the field, to
sert that al such representations are unmitigacd
falsehoods.
am not building the Nanny Machine infring-
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
OF the knife which there is not now nor has there
ever been, a patent
think know what am about. I have had too
h.Cl nuch experience as PRACTICAL MECHANIC, and
naIe spent TOO much money in obtaining drawings
ana specifications from the Patent Office Of The va
5u aus rus ol Ieapers' which now have in my pos
| patents heretofore obtained and now In force -
also learn that am threatened with nrosec,ttious
ana tat he farmers who may buy OF me will be pros
| ecuted This is the old "BLuFF GAME y and hos gb"
| pretty well played out. Fortwo years the comhIned
| force have been playing upon me, not openlv hnt
MEANLY ana oowARDLY, behind masked batteries, with
a view to the breaking up Of home manufacture that
they might the more securely and successfully con-
tinue to monopolize the agricultural trade aud keen
| up prices at rates runous to the farmer. But thus
far their assaults have been ent ely without success
and will continue harmless II am sustained by the
| farmer, for whose interest am steadily at work
The GREAT SECRET OF THEIR UNsoRuPULOus AND Ex-
TRAoRDNAM WARFARE upon me at this particular
time 49, that as the season for selling has commenced
they berin to feel, as well see, that my CALIFOR-
| MA COMBINED REAPER AND MOWER is a deci-
ID success and that unless they can intmidate the
farmer, and force him to buy from them at greater
cost, machines much inferior to mine they will be
obliged to hold large stock over for next YEAR an
unpleasant ~ truly, but Fate DEGREES 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 hrengs and secret circulars and letters through
out the country, to poison the public mind with so.
ries KNOWN TO BE FALSE.
Why don't they prosecute me, and let the farmers
alone? They know full we'll that they 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 cily the farmer
in the country.
REPEAT THAT AN MANUFACTURING THB CALIFORNIA
CoMBNED REAPER AND MowER mot the Nanny and
have purchased the invention called "Pecks Santa
Clara REAPER AND HARVESTER" which am also man
ufacturing and shall continue to manufacture both,
in nu abers equal TO the demand. And I now say
that persons who may buy either Of the above ma
chimes Of me, will, If required, receI a written guar
antce Of indemnity.
Forward your orders, and they shall be filed
With this am done. l am now and ever have
beeni READY FOR THE WHENEVER THE FIGHT OPENS
THOs. OGG SHAW.
50 Sacramento Street.
aI29- -lms San Francisco