Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-07


weapon.
The walter A. Wood Moving and
Reaping Machine Company
We some time since received the annu-
al pamphlet of this company, and were on
the point of abiding to it.again, as we
have had occasion before to do in our col
umns, when the telegraph announced that
nearly the entire manufacturing build
ings of the company had been destroyed
by fire, ehtailing loss of nearly or quite
half a million of dollars, loss sufficient
to sink weak corporations beyond resur-
rection, but which, notwithstanding the
loss was not half covered by insurance,
will to this staunch company prove less
of a barrier to the progress of its business
than one-tenth or one-fftieth even of the
loss would to most other companies in the
manufacture of agricultural implements
As to the merits of the different ma
chimes manufactured by this company,
under Mr.. Woods patents, we can offer
nothing which will add to their favor with
husbandmen, for they are already known
as the best labor-saving harvesting ma
chimes before the public in this or any
other country. In all trials at home they
have been victorious, even where they
have had from 25 to 80 competitors, as
was the case at Rochester, Minnesota, in
1867, where Walter A. Woods New Joint
ed Bar Mower was unanimously declared
by the judges appointed for the trial to
excel all others. In foreign lands the
Mower has been equally successful, it
winning the highest honors, a gold medal,
at the recent Paris Exposition, and secur-
ing for its inventor, Mr.. Wood, the deco
ration of the Cross of the Legion OF
Honor an honor conferred at the time by
the hands of the Emperor of the French,
and but upon three other Americans.
So pleased was His Majesty with the per-
formances of the mower that he gave a
personal order for several of them for his
private farm at Charities, France, and
since that time most of the potentates Of
Europe, and the civilized ones of Asia and
Africa, have become possessors of one OF
more of these machines for use on their
estates. But to refer to America alone
as we have not more than ordinary respect
for Kings or Princes except in this con-
neotion to show their good judgment in
the selection of labor-saving machinery,
! it is the mower which must commend it.
self to farmers for various reasons, among
which are the following: Its simplicity
of construction, durability, Gghtness o.
draft, facility of management, adaptabil
ty to any and every condition of crop oil
surface, and the neat manner in which Il
leaves the grass when cut. The machines
are made as perfect as scientific mechani
cal observations can suggest, and are IL
every instance as near perfect as can b.
made, by the most skilled workmen, I'm
der the personal supervision of the in
ventor, Mr.. Wood, himself mechanic o
ability and Judgment. The growth of thu
machine in popular favor is unprecedent
ed, as will be seen by the fact that while
in 1865 the sales but $500, and then con
sidered large, they last year reached ovel
twenty three thousand. In the West
though there are machines of local in
vention and some celebrity in that sec
| ton of the Union, it is rated as the stand
ard honor enough for a moving machin
in such a grass-growing country. But a
we said at the beginning Of this article
We 0ut.-~t IA ~~ything to the merits O
the machine, as to has already spoken 70
itself; yet there is one other thing il
connection with Woods New Jointed Ba
Mower which must commend itself t
purchasers, and that is the facility witt
which extras for it can be procured, or il
other words should part of the machin
be broken, the agent who sold it can sup
ply the part on call.
No matter how perfect the constructio,
of machine is, by constant usage, and a
is the case frequently with mowers, owe
rough ground there must necessarily b.
more or less breakage. The Wood Com
pany having this in view, have antici
pated the want of extras, and have de
voted to degree attention to their manu-
facture, so that all agents have now, from
last and former seasons, large supply oil
hand, hence the recent fire can make N
difference to owners of machines in thi
respect, and the purchasers or users o
Woods New Jointed Bar Mower can res
easily on this score,-a source of no LITTLE
this company, as this is the second time
they have passed through the ordeal. The
first time was in 1869, when their work.
were entirely consumed, and Mr.. WOOD
set himself with his accustomed energy
to the task of rebuilding them, and IL
two weeks they were in operation. Their
the customers of the company actually
knew no difference with respect to theil
supply of machines and extras, and thi
! we are assured will be the case now, fol
while the sales were not one-ffth in 1876!
what they were in 1869, the resources o
the company were correspondingly small
and even less, and the same indomitabl'
spirit of perseverance which then brough
order out of chaos, will for the season O.
1870 furnish to the public full supply o
Woods Mowers.
TO show that the company mean bust,
ness we learn that upon the extent of the
recent fire being determined Mr.. Wood
gave orders for the erection of new works
the plans were prepared, and large force
of men are now engaged constructing the
new shops, which a recent circular of thu
company informs the public will be il
working order by the 10th inst, when, by
working night and day, the company will
succeed in keeping up to their orders
So that really, while the Walter A. Wood
Moving and Keeping Machine Company
are heavy losers by the devouring element