Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-29
.ACTs FOR FARMERS.

since 1858. One Hundred Thirty-six Thousand
and Sig Hundred of Walter A. Wooos harvest
ting Machines have been manufactured ana SOLD.
At least one hundred and ten thousand were in
use during the past harvest season, ana IN nut
land County alone there were in good running or
der, during the having season OF 1911, ~ Ieast
Seventy-fve Wood Mowers, that were ,ron zen
to twelve years old. During the last twelve years
score of different Mowers have been prougnt pc
fore the public, tried, found wanting, condemned
and thrown under the fence.
In 1868, the Whitehall Chronicle, In speaans
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 to the same IN
glorious end. ]"
few wears ago there were In Rutland county,
Moving Machines that were for time sharp
competitors of the Wood Mower, but to-day,
where are they? Thrown aside, or sold for old
manufactured. II there should be few of those
machines still in existence, the much needed ex-
ira parts for repairs cannot be obtained-hence
they are worthless to their owners.
think the observation and experience OF farm
ers will uphold me in the above statement. All
this entails loss on the farming community, and
any one can perceive it would be cheaper TO pur-
chase only Standard Mowers.
Nearly every agent for these new Mowers re-
commend their ewn machines by decrying first
class standard mowers. And the Wood Mower
seems to come in for full share of such abuse.
Reasoning according to the old adage, that "The
orchard" the Wood is entitled to something more
than passing notice.
As rule, all new mowers are recommended as
being of lighter draft than any OF the standard
machines. They are great Improvements and
must take the place of all other machines nov In
use, of course they must, because they are later
improvements, and possess some very novel fea.
lures. Even If the novel features are obtained at
the sacrifice Of some practical feature, it is claim
ed to be an improvement. One agent says
'sWhy, the man that invented my mower, was
the same man that invented the Wood Mower,
and sold him the patent" Another one, in his
zeal, says :-"Walter A. Wood has offered seven
ty-hve thousand dollars for the patent on my
mo ger." These stories are hardly worth atten-
ton, but are mentioned to show the ways resort
ed to by agents to force an inferior article upon
farmers.
AS rule, the inventor of the Wood Mower
never adopts any improvement simply because II
is novel. His aim is to produce as simple and
practical a Mower as possible. At the manufac.
tory, large numbfr of proposed improvements
tested, but where one is adopted, scores
are rejected, and, in many cases, the novel at
tachment of some new Mower, that Is trumpetec
abroad by their agents, it is afterwards learned
has been tested at the Wood mandatory anc
rejected.
If any manufacturing establishment in th'
world has the facilities for making good work
has the mechanical and inventive talent fol
bringing out improyements-the experience t
enable them to judge of the practicabilty OF sucf
improyement-can point 10 unprecedented sales
as an evidence OF succ5ss-can say to their pat
rons, we have always furnished extra parts fel
our machines, even for those first made, and car
show large number of very old machines stlll II
good running order-it is the Walter A. WooC
Moving and Reapirg Machine Company, of Hoo
sic Falls, N. Y, -
Send for Circular. Names of Local Agent
will be given hereafter. ma yl5d lw20m2