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

grand gold medal Of honor at the Neck
lenbergh Exhibition and trials in 1850
where it was exhibited IN competition
with all classes of farm implements, as
the ''most useful farm implement" and
was awarded the first prize at the exhi-
bition at Antwerp in 1864.
Taking into consideration the severe
and unprecedented competition with
which this machine hns been obliged to
contend, We believe no other invention
since devised by the art of man has met
with such continuous series of splen-
did successes. The genius Of Mr.. Wood
reflects honor not only upon the great
State of New York, but upon the whole
nation.
It's hardly necessary to say that the
Wood machine was prominent at the
Paris exposition Of last year. Mr..
Wood was foremost among that noble
band of inventors who have SO well sus-
tanned the fame of America as the lead
ing nation of the world in all that re-
lates to novel and ingenious mechan-
ism. Able Paris correspondents have
related, in detail, the incidents of the
various trials. In the celebrated con-
test, on the Emperors farm, at FOUL
leuse, the 23d Of last May, the Wood
Mower displayed its undenab'e superb
GRITTY over the best machines that could
be produced against it. The success Of
the Wood Machine was precisely like
that of the yacht America, in the great
International Regatta at Cowes, wood
was first, aud the rest were nowhere
The first prize gold medal for this trial
was, of course, awarded to Mr.. Wood,
as we'll as Grand Gold medal for his
Reaper and Mower. The Emperor has
adopted this machine upon all his farms
and has conferred upon NJ. Wood the
grade of Chevalier of the Imperial Or
der of the Legion of Honor. The COM
pliment was never more wOrthily be-
| slowed. The first Napoleon established
the order as reward for great civil, as
well as military merit, but the instances
were few and far between, i'm which it
was awarded to the lords of industry or
the princess of science. Mankind have
always been more ready to honor and
reward their destroyers, than their ben
efactors. But Walter A. Wood now
proudly wears the decoration. No wild
ow or orphan can point to a stain upon
its glittering surface. He has received
- - l.: IN, h.,;r
struggle against the primeval curse. "In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
Bread" was the sentence passed upon
him who partook of the forbidden fruit,
and though the efforts Of . man like Mr..
Wood have not availed to entirely re-
move the curse, they have at least ena-
b!ed mankind to get great deal more
bread for the same amount of perspira-
ton. #e
Mr.. Wood is still in the prime of life,
resides at HOosic Falls, and gives the
business the advantage of his personal
attention and supervision.
That his reaper and mower may go OH
''conquering and to conquer" carrying
with them American ideas and Ameri
can civilization, until the waste places
of the earth shall blossom as the rose,
and that the next twenty years Of his
life may be as profitable to himself and
useful TO mankind as the last twenty
years have been. is the hearty and sin
cere wish Of all who know him. And
| the thousands of sturdy farmers, all over
this broad land, who have had their
crops secured and their labors lightened
by his genius and industry, Will, ss
! heartily, say Amen.