Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

prize at Oran, in Algiers, in the heart of
the ancient province of Africa, the granary
of the Roman Empire. For aught know,
the ghost of Marius, still brooding among
the ruins OF Carthage, may have had its
gloomy meditations disturbed by the click
Of the Yankee mower. Time would fail
to recount all the prizes that have been
awarded to the Wood machine in the diff
ferent countries of Europe.
will, however, mention, as among the
more prominent, the grand gold medal of
honor awarded by the French government
in 1864 to the best moving machines, either
native or foreign; the first prize gold medal
and 1000 francs, also awarded by the
French government, to the best foreign
machine at the trial at Vincennes in the
same year; the, first prize of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England in
the year 1861, and also in 1866,
being the only prizes, offered by
that society since this machine was in
troduced; the medal of the great Interna-
tlonal Exhibition at London in 1862; the
first prize Of the Royal Agricultural Soci-
donderry, 1854; and the first prize at the
great Russian Exhibition and field trials at
Moscow in the same year.
The Wood Machine also received the
grand gold medal of honor at the Neck
lenburg Exhibition and trials in $780,
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 exhibition at
Antwerp in 1854 s5ss kfs aS
Taking into consideration the severe ard
unprecedented competition with which this
machine has been obliged to contend, be-
lieve no other invention since devised by
the art of man has met with such con-
tinuous series Of splendid successes The
genius of Mr.. Wood reflects honor NOT only
upon the great State of New York, but
upon the nation.
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
Wood machine was prominent at the Paris
Exposition of last year. M. Wood was
foremost among that noble band of in
ventors who have go well sustained the
fame of America as the leading nation of
the world in all that relates to novel and
ingenious mechanism Able Paris CORE
spondents have related, in detail, the Incl
dents Of the various trials. In the cele-
brated contest, on the Emperor's farm, at
Feuilleuse, the Esd of last May, the Wood
Mower displayed its undeniable superiority
over the best machines that could be pro-
duced against it. The success of the
Wood Machine was precisely like that of
the yacht America, in the great Interna-
tional Regatta at Cows, /" Wood was first,
and the rest were nowhere" The first
prize gold medal for this trial was award
ed to Mr.. Wood, as well as Grand Gold
Medal for his Reaper and Mower. The
Emperor has adopted this machine upon
all his farms and has conferred upon Mr..
Wood the grade of Chevalier of the Inn
perial Order of the Legion of Honor.
The compliment was never more worthlly
bestowed. The first Napoleon estab-
lished the order as reward for great
! civil, as well as military merit, but
the instances were few and far between,
in which it was awarded to the lords
of industry or the princes of science.
Mankind have always been more ready to
honor and reward their destroyers, than
their benefactors. But Walter A. Wood
may proudly wear the decoration. No
widow or orphan can point to stain upon
its glittering surface. He has received it
as a gallant leader of his race in their
struggle against the primeval curse. elm
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 men like Mr.. Wood have not
availed to entirely remove the curse, they
have at least enabled mankind to get a
great deal more bread for the same amount
Of perspiration. p" 44"
The perusal of the following letter in re-
lation to Trial of Reapers, from the very
extensive house of Burgess 81 Key, of Lon
don, Eng, will show that the Reaper from
which sMr. Mccormick won his laurels,
was not invented nor manufactured by
himself; but that Reaper like those made
in Chicago was in the trial, and this ma
chine did not take any price. ah 1893
THE PARIS AwARDs-M' ooRMcK AND BURGESS &
s1fG7 KEY.
Z TO the Editor of the Mark Lane ETpress-SIR:
In recent number of your journal you pub
lished list of awards in the agricultural and hor
ticultural department OF the French exhibition.
In this list the name OF Mr. Mccormick, OF Chica-
60, United States, occurs twice; firstly the re-
cipient of the Grand Prize, and secondly as being
nominated q Knight of the Imperial Order of the
Legion Of Honour, both which distinctions l;n are
Now, although the Times and other papers have
stated that the machine with which Mr.. McCor-
mick has gained his spurs was made By us, and
embodied our patented improvements, yet as no
such announcement has appeared in the official
organ of agriculturists. we trust that you will al
might otherwise escape the notice of those most
interested in the subject. Will you allow us to
add, that we did not exhibit at all in cur own
name, and that our moving machine which gained
the first prize last season at Newcastle, did not
compete at Paris, the reaping machine exhibited
by Mr.. Mccormick being the only machine of our
make there. & h riae a l6o5 secs
We are, sir, your obedient servants,
~ ~ sec aDp& BURG ESS e. KEY.
y BRENTFoRD, January "A, 1865. ar
& Mr.. G. Fl. Mccormick has claimed in |
his circulars the first prize on Reaper. |
The public can decide for themselves who |
is entitled to the honors. The only gold |
medal awarded AMERICAN. REAPERS,
was conferred upon Walter A. Wood.
Mr.. Wood is still in the prime of life,
resides at Hoosick Falls, and gives the
business the advantage of his personal at
tention and supervision.
That his reaper and mower may go on
conquering and to conquer" carrying |
with them American ideas and American
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 man.
kind as the last twenty years have been, is
the hearty and sincere 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 aud industry, will,
as heartily, say Amen.
The Western Office Of the above Com
pany is at 206 Lake street, Chicago.
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