Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-04-12
The Marsh Harvester.

We clip the following from onr ex-
changes for the benefit of our farming
community. Messrs. Hunt & Rowland
have the agency for this place, and
west. They will have sample machines
in q, few days, when all can examine for
themselves. Messrs. Gammon s Prin-
die state that they can supply but a
limited number this season, and will
send out only on actual orders, and we
would advise all who wish this celebra-
ted machine, 10 callupon Messrs. Hunt
& Rowland and leave their order early,
SO that they may secure their machine.
We could give many testimonials
from Farmers who have used them,
but space will not allowus. Call upon
Messrs. Hunt g. Rowland, and get
pamphlets, and see and read for your
selves.
Among the great multiplicity Of MAJ
chimes for harvesting, it 'weuld seem
there was little need of new inventions.
Yet there was a want that has not been
fully met; there is a demand for some
device w hereby grain can be bound as
cut, and save the labor of Ave or six
men required to bind after an ordinary
The inventive genius of the country
has given us the self-raking attachment
which has done much to relieve the
| hard work of handwriting, and now
the sale of reapers with the self-raking
attachment outnumbers thosh without.
4 hnan
binding by machinery, the most sue
cessful OF which is that of the Messrs.
Burson, of Rock ford.
The machine represented above is
the invention Of tile Marsh Brothers,
of DeKalb Co., i'm this State, and was
first publicly exhibited at "a trial of ma
chimes two years ago, ut DeKalb, where
| it attracted much attention from its
completeness of work, AT that time Ii
was rudely made, audneeded some al
| terations to adapt 1T to Universal work.
Recently the enterprising firm of Gam
mon Il Prindle of this city, have taken
hold of the machine, making needed
improvements, in it, and will put out
about eighty of them this harvest.
Some thirty Were put into successful
operation }aSts year, v2w wsr av1u
The nadine, in its cutting appara-
tus, does not differ from other good cut
ting reapers; the driving wheel is very
large, about four feet in diametre and
eight inches face, thuslifting the gear
ing up out of the way Of mud and dirt,
and supporting the machinery well on
soft ground.
) l9hel platform, instead of being sta
tionary, is composed of an endless
apron revolving toward the main
1 - Of .x.h; oh = 70, ..nft
another endless apron las shown in the
engraving), provided with teeth, which
carry up the grain under a shield, de-
liyering it over the driving wheel into
q trough. Here one or two men stand
on platform attached to the machine,
and bind the grain without any waste
or scattering, the bundles being drop
ped on the ground, as bound. The ma
terial used to binn is straw, the same
as though bindind on the ground. We
had all opportunity to see the machine
atwork, atSycamore, last week, under
circumstances quite unfavorable, as the
| recent rains had made the ground so
soft, that most machines were laid up.
The grain cut was wheat++ quite
heavy in some places. The number of
horses used, two. The cutting was
done as well as could be, and two men
bound it as fast ~ cut with perfect ease.
leaving the bundled much evener and
handsomer than when bound from the
ordinary reaper. After few "bouts"
with beth men, one man went around
alone doing the whole binding hand
somely. Then several, unaccustomed
to the machine, tried their hands, and
after, u few bundles accomplished the
work easily, stating it was easier TO do
their part on the machine, than to be-
one of five to bind on the groudd. Ev-
cry thing about the machine worked adj
mirably, and TO the entire satisfaction
of u large number present. One gen.
tlsman on the ground stated he used
one last season to cut $50 acres of differ
ent grains working through the whole
season when any machine could work,
and that it had given him perfect salts
| faction.
| 2 "A large manufacturing company in
Ohio, who had heard of the machine,
had sent out their best mechanic. ac-
com panied by one of the proprietors to
witness its work. After carefully
watching the work ings~of, 1t all the
day in wheat and uatspronounced it
ar complete success r accomplishing
more than they expected of it. We
have been much interested in watching
the Developments of this machine for
two saasons past, and believe it promis-
es more 10 lessen the hard labor in the
harvest field, and consequent labor in
the f;rmer's family, than any machine
of its class in the country. Its merits
seem to be fully proved, and we expect
to see 1T win its way rapidly into gener-
al use in grain growing districts. Mes
srs, Cannon & Prindle are making ar
rangements to supply a large number
for the next harvest ruirie Fsfy-