The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-05-07

benefactor. and one or the useful and
practical sort, too: I r# Il Il
will be easily conceived that the
work Of manufacturing and supplying
the public with these machines at the
rate at which they are now DEMANDED
tasks the resources of one Of the largest
manufacturing establishments in the
world. We have not space for detail
ed description of the different foundr'es'
shops, &C., but the reader can form
some idea of the extent Of the works
from the fact that the working floor
covers a space of 10000 square feet, or
nearly FOUR ACRES, which, If properly
DISPOSED, would make continuous
working floor twenty-six feet wide and
one mile long. The concern now en-
ploy about six hundred men, and Is
turning out machines at the rate OF one
in less than TEN MINUTES Of each work
ing day, or 20 machines per day, 40 per
week, and $50 each month. Until the
year 1866 the works were carried on by
a firm, in which Mr.. Wood was senior
and principal partner. In that year.
however, a joint stock company was
formed, with Mr.. Wood rs president,
and the business Is continued by the
company, with more energy and sue
cess than ever.
The company has recently made
purchase which will double the capaci-
ty of the works, and will furnish en-
ployment for several hundred additional
men, on which the mills are already
erected.
Does anybody desire to know the Sc
cret of this wonderful success? 1t is
simply this: The walter A. Wood
Moving and Reaping Machine Com
pany" MAKE THE BEST MOVING AND
REApING MACHINES IN THE WORLD
Not only is the principle and mode of
operation of the machine superior to
that of any other, but the manufacture
is conducted with the most careful So
licitude. Everything in the process of
construction is done "upon honor,' and
with the most scrupulous regard for the
efficiency of the machines.
The materials are selected upon the
principle of the dcacon's lone boss
shay"-that of making the "weakest
part as strong as the rest.' When a
farmer purchases one Of the machines
he KNOWS that he has only to put it up
and go to work-lhere is not u possible
ity of failure. Moreover, the grand field
of the reaping machines Is in the great
grain. growing States of the West, and
the Walter A. Wood reaper is even Il
greater favorite than the mower with
the Western farmer. More Of these
reapers are sold in the North Western
States than all the other Self Rakers
combined, and the demand from that
quarter is rapidly increasing.
But it is not only in the United States
that these machines are appreciated
Wherever they have been used, and es-
pecially where they have been placed
in competition with others, their supe-
rior qualities have been triumphantly
established. If the market for first
prizes, gold medals, premiums, &C., is
governed by the commercial law of
supply and demand, those articles can
certainly be obtained of Mr.. Wood, Oh
better terms than can be given by any
one else in the known world. Upon
looking over list of the prizes award
ed to these machines, we could hardly
help fancying that oh some pleasant
November evening, the sky had rained
gold medals instead Of the expected me-
tcors, and Mr.. Wood had been caught
in the shower. Among the more i'm
portant Of these are the first four premi'
ums Mt the great Minnesota State Field
Trial held at Rochester, in August last
also three first prizes out of the foul
which have been offered by the Unite {
States Agricultural Society; the frs
prize Of the International Agriculture
Society trial held at Rouse's Point
and the first prize Of the Provincial
Society of Canada, trial held at Toronto
These machines have also taken thu
first premiums of the Agricul tural So
cieties of no less than THIRTEEN of tn
principal grain-growing States of tn
Union, and, indeed, in nearly ever!
State where it has been competitor
In addition to those above enumerated
Mr.. Wood has been awarded more thar
TWO HUNDRED first prizes by County
District, and Town societies in the Uni
ted States.
But his triumphs have not been con
fined to this continent. England
France, Russia and Germany have al
frequently testified their appreciation
of his invention. A second Scipio, h
has carried the war into Africa,' an
has actually taken first prize at Oran
in Algiers, In the heart Of the ancien
province of Africa, the granary Of tn
Roman Empire. For aught I know
the ghost of Marius, still brooding ami
the ruins of Carthage, may have had it
gloomy meditation disturbed by tn
click of the Yankee mower. Spac
would forbid to recount all the prize
that have been awarded to the Woo