Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-15
rACTS FOR FARMERS.

a;noo ,s,s. One Hundred Thirty-six Thousand
% 81 Hmndred of Walter A. WOODS HafVess-
tipp Machines have been manufactuIeu az 100 80 y,
At least one hundred and ten snOus and in Rut-
land County alone there were in good runnns r..
DER during the having season OF Io.l' trorn ten
Seventy-fve Wood Mowers, that were , ~ voars
to twelve years old. During the last tweive ~
a score of different Mowers have been prouSns "
fore the public, tried, found wanting, condemned
and thrown under the fence :. no.l;n,
Tn 1868. the Whitehall Chronicle, In speaklns
of Moving Machines, said Every year witness
es the death of Mowers constructed on wrong me-
chanical principles, and every year new mowers
come before the public destined 70 lhe same III
A few wears ago there were In Rutland county,
| Moving Machines that were for time snsrp
competitors of the Wood Mower, puI to-oay,
where they7 Thrown aside, or SOFA ipa s E,a
| iron and no more of the same kind are Deipg
manufactured. II there should De lew OF Lhose
machines still in existence, the much needed e4-
| ira parts for repairs cannot De optalhea-hence
thew are worthless to their owners.
VIZ I,bInk the observation and experience OF farm
ara will uphold me in the above statement. All
| this entails loss on the farming commnnlty,anu
any one can perceive it would DC cheapei W pun
| chase only Standard Mowers.
| Nearly every agent for these new Mowers re-
commend their own machines ey decrying hIes-
| class standard mowers. And the WOOD mower
| seems to corae in for full hare of such abuse.
| Reasoning according to the old adage, that "Ine
| most clubs are found under the best tree In the
orchard. - the Wood is entitled to something more
than passing notice. sos ..
| AS a rule all new mowers are recommended al
being of lighter draft than any OF the standard
machines They are great improvements anc
must take the place of all other machines nov ~
use, of course they must because they are iate'
improve ments, and possess some very mover .ea
lures, Even if the novel features are obtained q
The sacrifice of some practical feature, 1t Is claim
ed to be an Improvement. One agent says
"Why the man that invented my mower, wal
the same man that invented the WOOD mower
and sold him the PATENT" Another one, IN M
| tv-tye thousand dollars for the patent on m!
mo YER" These stories are hardly worth atten
ton but are mentioned to show the ways resort
ed to by agents to force an inferior articIe upoi
farmers.
Asa rule the inventor of the Wood MOVE
never adopts any improvement simply because /
is novel. His aim is to produce as simple AM
| practical q Mower at possible. At the manufac
are tested, but where one is adopted, score
are rejected, and, in many cases, the never ~
- tachment of some new Mower, that ID trumpeue
abroad by their agents, 1T Is Afterwards learned
has been tested at the Wood mandatory an
rejected. ,. i. =,
world has the facilities for making good WORK
has the mechanical and inventive talent 10
bringing out improvements-the experience
enable them to Judge of the practicablity OF sue
improvement-can point 10 unprecedented SAFE
as an evidence OF success-can say 70 their pa
- rons we have always furnished extra parts 1e
5 our machines even for those first made, and ca
show a large number of very old machines SIN
good running order-it is the waiter a. W,
Moving and Reapipg Machine Company, OF no
sic Falls, N. Y.
+. w. MOSELEY, Gen. Agent,
Poultney, Vt.
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