Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-13
FOR FARMERS.

Since 1881. One Hundred Thirty-six Thousand
and six Hundred OF Walter a. Wooo Ia soIS
ting Machines have been manuiacluieu 100 in |
At least one hundred and ten thousana d.,
use during the past harvest season, anu W n |
land County alone there were In gooa soast
der during the having season OF IeLl' -. a. Ton
Seventy.fiy Wood Mowers, that were ,Ion .en
to twelve years old. During the last twelve year
a score of different Mowers have been brought pc
fore the public, tried, found wantif g, cendenheu
and thrown under the fence.
IN Is6s the Whitehall Chronicle, in speaking
of Moving Machines, said Every year witness
es the death of Mowers constructed on Wrons nie
chanical principles, and every year new moves
como before the public destined u 'he ea'le iA
glorious end"
A few years ago there were in Rutland county,
Moving Machines that were for Tune snalP
competitors of the Wood Mower, bnt To-Day,
where are they Thrown aside, or soid ior oio
iron and no more of the same KIND are peipg
manufactured. If there should be few OF those
machines still in existence, the mpcn hesoeu e1
| ira parts for repairs cannot De oDtalneo-hehce
| thew are worthless to their owners.
| think the observation and experience OF farm,
ers will uphold me in the above statement. All
| this entails loss the farming commnnlty,anu
any one can perceive it would be cheaper 10 Pur-
chase only Standard Mowers.
Nearly every agent for these new Mowers re-
commend their own machines BY deeryIng n[st-
class standard mowers. And the Wood Mower
| seems to come in for full share OF such abuse.
Reasoning according to the old aoage, tnat me me
| most clubs are found under the best tree IN the
0rchaTO,' Ine w oO4 Is SAUl"S" w 0OAANSAA'Do ~
than passing notice.
Il AS rule, all new mowers are recommended az
| being of lighter draft than any OF the stanosro
machines They are great Improvements ana
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 lea.
lures, Even If the novel features are obtained az
the sacrifice of practical feature, 1t is claim
ed to be an improvement. One agent says:
"Wby, the man that invented my mower, was
the same man that invented the WOOD mower,
and sold him the patent."s Another one, In MS
zeal, says :-"Walter a. Wood has offered seven
ty-fye thousand dollars for the patent on my
mo yer" These stories are hardly worth atten-
tion but are mentioned TO show the ways resort
ed to by agents to force an inferior article upon
farmers.
, Asa 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 manuiac-
tory, large numb OF proposed improvement
are tested, but where one is adopted, scores
| are rejected, and, in many cases, the novel at.
tachment of some new Mower, that is trumpeted
abroad by their agents, it is afterwards learned
has been tested at the Wood mandatory and
2 rejected. a.
2 world has the facilities for making good work
? has the mechanical and inventive talent 10l
bringing out imprOvements-the experience e
enable them to judge OF the practIcablhty OF sucI
improvement-can point TO unprecedented sales
| as an evidence OF success-can say TO their PAT
rons, we have always furnished extra parts foi
Y our machines, even for those first made, ana cal
e show large number of very old machines SIM II
good running order-it is the Walter A. WOO
e Moving and Reapipg Machine Company, OF Hoo
+ T. W. MOSELEY, Gen. Agent,
= Poultney, Vt.
i Send for Circular Names of Local Agent
p will be given hereafter mayl5dlw2Om2