American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-07-24
Moving Match.

Of testing the qualities of the different
Moving Machines now offered for sale in
this county, came off on Thursday the
l1th inst, in the meadow belonging to
r. q. M'Aboy.
The challenge, as our readers are aware,
Was given by Wilson, Weckbecker & Co.,
Agents for the Union Mower, manufac
tured by John Hall & Co., Pittsburgh,
and was accepted by j. G. & VIM. Camp
bell, Agents for the Buckeye and other
Mowers
But small proportion of our farmers
have as yet, provided themselves with
labor-saving machinery, aud especially is
this the case in regard to Mowers and
Reapers. All admit that cradling and
moving is hard work, and must be done
at time when the heat is oppressive !;
and when it is often difficult to obtain
the necessary help to take off the har>
vest. Our farmers are beginning to wake
up to their true interests, and during the
last three years many have purchased
Mowers and Reapers, Patent Hay Rakes,
Forks, &c.
When men are about to expeud con-
siderable amount of money they are apt
to ask themselves the question Will it
pay 2" aud more especially should this
be the case in purchasing Agricultural
Machinery. 1t is of vital importance to
the farmer to know that the machinery
which he is about to purchase is such as
will perform the work for which it is de
signed.
A knowledge of those facts led to The
challenge and its acceptance by the gen,
tlemen acting as agents for the sale of
machines in this county. At the trial
referred to, the following machines were
entered: The Excelsior" manufactur-
ed by Brown, Seiberling & Co., Massilon,
Ohio, J. Knox, General Agent, aud II.
B. Weiz, General Agent for Butler coun.
ty, and j. G.. & VIM. Campbell, Local
Agents.
The " World" jr., manufactured by
Ball Manufacturing Company, Can ton,
o., J. Knox the general agent; and the
Aetna by the same gentleman;the Buckeye
sr. and jr., manufactured by G. Aultman
& Co., Canton, Ohio, represented respec-
lively by Lewis Reed, of Zelienople, j.
G. & VIM. Campbell, of Butler, and l.
T. KiIk, of New castle, general agent for
Lawrence county. The champion
manufactured by Whitley, Fassler &
Kelly, Springfield, Ohio, by Beckman &
Long, of Pittsburgh; the Union,"
manufactured by John Hall & Co., repre-
sented by the manufacturers and Wilson
" Weckbecker & Co., agents for Butler
county, and the Iron City," manufac-
tured at the Iron City Agricultural
Works, Pittsburgh, by Wilson & Co.
After the different machines had arriv-
ed on the ground, it was arranged that
each party having machine should choose
one man as committee, which was done
with the exception of the Buckeye; there
being two of these, the Junior and Sc
nior, it was decided they should have
but one of committee there was, there
fore, one less in number of committee
men than machines. The following per-
sons we're selected as committee, viz
J. N. Dehaven, Michael limerick, VIM.
Albert, j. j. West, Sllas Pearcc and II.
Shaffer. The ground was staked off by
the committe, and the different machines
allotted to their respective places, ac-
cording to numbers which they had pres
viously drawn after arriving on the
ground.
Some hundreds of persons were pres
ent to witness the contest Several per,
sons were present from Pittsburgh, among
whom we noticed Get. j. S. Negley,
Judge Park, w. Knox, Esq, II. B. Long,
Thomas Hall, j. T. F. Wright, Editor
and Proprietor of the National Agricul-
turist. Jas. Brown, Esq, of Massilon,
Ohio, was also present. Everything be-
ing arranged as well as time and circum>
stances would admit, the different ma-
chimes commenced operations. The crowd
were SO anxious to witness the test that
they pressed up after the different ma>
chimes, closely inspecting the operation,
and locker on would naturally have
concluded that the large assembly had
resolved themselves into a committee of
the whole, in order to pass Judgment up
on the operations.
In fact the crowd was so thoughtlcss as
to tramp the unknown grass in each al
lotment into such disorder as not to ad.
NIT of a fair test being made, even in the
moving and the machines all working at
the same time, on different plots of ground,
it was impossible for the committee, as a
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