Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-08-15
From the Prailic Farmer.
THE GREAT TRIAL OF REAPERS
AND MOWERS.
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BINDERS.

AND MOWERS.
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While these operations we've progressing
a new feature was developing .itself The
attached to an old Nanny reaper almost too
shaky to hold together. TWAS w. w. Burson's
from Muscatine, Iowa, and the only one pres
cnt 1t drew the attention from everything
else, and when it first started into the grain
the crowd could not be restrained from rush
ing after and almost over it, Mr. BuIson,
perfectly cool and collected, gathered the
grain from the platform with the ingenious
fork provided Tor the purpose, passed it I'M.
der the binding machine-a turn of the
crank and the bundle securely bound, fell
among the crowd another and another fell
and were eagerly picked up and handed from
hand to hand, shaken enough to break any
hand binding, and then passed on to the
next AT each successive round the crowd
most eagerly watched the operation, as it had
been the one thing that had attracted hun
drcds there to see it. s. =. a-.E@@ '-sse
The next morning the machine was trans
ferrcd to one Of Manny's six feet reapers, fur
nished for the occasion by Talcott & Emerson,
from Rockford, both Of which gentlemen
were there and watched the operation with
much interest. The machine was again tried
with this machine and the binder did with
ease all the machine could cut with the ordi-
nary gait of the horses. The machine was
voted practical one, we think, by all who
saw it. We bound few bundles with it, and
should consider it easier work for one man
to do all the work here than his part of the
labor when it took five men to bind by hand
Tile wire can be bound around to any degree
of tightness desired, and the size of the bun
die makes TO difference-it viii bind as small
rs pencil or as large as the largest bundle
with the same facility and despatch. Mr.
Burson has spent years in bringing the ma
chinestoits present state, and We congratu-
late him most cordially on his successful &C
complishment Of the difficult job. There
have been put into use the present season
about two hundred of these machines, so far
giving good satisfaction to the users The
price OF the machine is $50; it will cost from
81 to So additional to attach it to the gener-
al stylrs Of machines. We think it might
be rugged to work very successfully with the
Woods Selfrake, when it would require only
the driver and binder to prepare the grain for
the shock 1tsa.f. 1"
We yet expect TO see the raker and binder
work together successfully in the average of
our Western grain fields, ai 8s.F2
Hoods rake on McCormicEs Reaper
During the day the Woods rake came into
the field attached to a McCormick's reaper,
six foot cut, and did excellent work.
HEADERS.
The next machines were the Headers
There were many present who had never
seen them in operation in the field and could
hardly realize what they We're capable of do
ing, as their appearance was so cumberous,
and the attendant train SO numerous, both of
men and horses. A gentleman from Steph-
aenson county, who we met there, and who is
a large grain grower, having this year six
hundred acres of wheat, considers that the
average saving to the farmer by their use is
fully one third, and often Onehalf The work
done with one Of the Headers will average 20
acres per day, with seven men. 4 saving of
one cent. per bushel is gained by the farmer,
also, in thrcshing, as so much more can be
done in day. There were three machines
entered for the trial in this class The
Haines' Header, by Barber, Hawley & Co.,
of Pekin. The Mayberry Header, by j. c.
~ n. c. Mayberry, Of Rockford, and the
Headersof g.. II. Rugg, of Ottawa. They
were allotted three acres each for trial. The
Haines' machine has long been before the
public, and almost the only one in use. 1t
was manned by persons used to it every way,
and they came up to the standing grain like
veterans, went to work quietly, did their
work clean, and the stack when done, was
Enodel OF neatncss and symmetry. So F
The May berry machine, in general appear
ance, is much the same as that of Haines'.-
The manner Of raising and lowering is diff
crent. being accomplished by q pendulum
motion instead Of the long lever. It is also
capable of being turned around in its own
length, by having wheel in the center of
gthe platform. The machine was we'll man
nsdrAsd practice had evidently given them
easy control of the machine. As it was the
irstpublic trial where they had come in con-
tact With the old Haines' machine, they were
over-anxions, and pushed their work through
at rapid rate with not care enough to take
it all clean: the stubble was left considera-
bly, higher than the first mentioned ana, their
stacking was not as well done The time
consumed in cutting and stacking their three
acres was ifty-eight minutes, probably as
quickly as the same amount was ever done
before. Each Of these machines was ten feet
cut and operated by four horses and one
man, the wagons accompany having driver
and stoYcr. (. ~ an
Riggs machine is nine feet cut and oper-
.atsd by two horses. When he came to his
work he found some parts of his machinery
SO deranged that he could not repair it soon
enough to come into the trial and abandoned