The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-07-13
(From the Pittsburgh Price Currently
WEsrERN WnRH sHnpa-

WESTERN WORK SHOPS.
The AuItman d Taylor Manufaetur-
Ing Company, Mansfield, OhIO-The
Implements our Farmers Employ
How They are Made, and who Make
Them.
The intei est excited in the intelligent
mind by any product exhibiting ingenuity
or skill may be said to be based more or
less upon comparison. That which ex-
cited the profound curiosity of our forefa-
theirs, fails to elicit more than a passing
remark from a boy in his roundabout to-
day. InsensibIy the intelligent mind con-
trasts the new with the old; the ocean
steamer is contrasted with the unwieldy
barge, the sewing machine with the spin
ming wheel, the railroad car with the lum-
bering stage coach, and the breach loader
With the sling. Precisely in the same
manner, whoever will examine the various
methods adopted In the past for tilling the
ground, gathering IN the ripe grain, and
preparing it for the hand of the house
WIFE will inevitably contrast the modern
agricultural implements with the rude
wooden pillow, and the threshing floor of
the Egyptians the cleaners who labored
in Boaz's fields, and the -ecseentric opera
tons of the fail.
Perhaps there is no better evidence of
the progress of civilization, and the adj
vance Of practical ideas than that afforded
in the matter of tilling the soil; in the
gathering of the harvest, and the separa-
ton of the grain from the chaff. What
with steam plows, c~ultivators, W and
reapers, threshers, drills,-machines in
brief expressly devised for the various re-
quirements of the husbandman, the world,
l ar OF looc4 that norfT1r ~ -
the stars and stripes, appears to have as
sumed the seven league boots which of a
verify belong to true progress. Fancy for
a moment, the operations of an implement
that performs the work of FOO men, which
separates from 1000 to 1900 bushels of
grain from the stalks in a day, and deliV-
ers 1t over to the miller ready for the hop
per, free from dust and dirt It is related
in mythology that the goddess of wisdom
sprung from the head %ofJupiter complete
ly armed and mature. People who ruth
lessly thrust aside as n~onsensical every
thing pertaining to mythology, and assert
that poetry and romance have yielded to
practical common sense, are too apt to for
get that We are daily performing many
things more marvellous than anything
nursed amid h eromance ofancient Greece,
We have seen cities numbering tens OF
thousands reared in a single year, have
seen the monarchs of the forest bow before
the march of civilization, and their places
occupied by waving grain, while they
themselves were transformed into habita-
tions for those who prepared the ground
for the seed, and all within the space of
year. Fields, houses, hamlets, cities spring
into existence in the great West in a man,
ner which reminds one of Alladin and hi,
wonderful lamp. Railroads, those "chaini
of Improvement which are destined to BE-
the bonds of our national Union" link, as
rapidly as they spring into existence, tht
western cities with the extreme eastern
mart, balance time, brush aside prejudice
and accommodate the interests of all sec
tions. They sometimes feed, but more of
ten are fed from the fresh fields of the west
which furnish not one but many nations
with the staff of life. Fancy a million o
acres which for ages have ~slumbered, fat
tened and grown rich under the sun ant
dew, suddenly made to yield their riches
to mankind, and all in space of a year
Measure if you can the value of the aid
/ which enables the h~usbandman to pro
!! duce these marvellous changes, and deter
I mine whether the conquests of the nipple
| ments which reclaim those broad acres ar
: not wider, wiser, more useful and NOR
lasting than any ever accomplished by tn
sword. Cities, railways, canals trade
nations owe their prosperity to the im
2 plements employed by the ~husbandmar
and are directly dependent upon. them
since these are necessary to their exist
! ence.
AULTNAN & TAYLoR's IMPROVED THREsH
l ER-How IT IS MADE.
The establishment which heads this al
ticle combines within itself a school for th
$ old world manufacturers, whose wonder
e excited by the hghtness, durability
strength and beauty of finish displayed j
the American agricultural implement
: Here are workers in woodland iron who's
: hands display wonderful cunning, assiste
l IN their labor by tools of every deseriI
ton. Those who have witnessed the ms
U gical operations of this favorite impleme1
will doubtless be surprised when they al
informed that the rapidity with which
IS made, is, if anything, more magical tina
< IT'S operations. Here is an army of worl
ers in wood, there another employed j
the manufacture of castings, there anotht
s engaged in shaping and filing the iro
e work, there another devoted to the tas
/ of keeping the tools in order, all skilled
[, bu6lI hdIlOuS DIduCucS, DtSlQcS Il very II
n spectacle force oflaborers. Every depar
n ment has its separate head, every floor
3 these large buildings has its railway, viii
elevators enable the rough and fnishs
|, material to be shifted from floor TO hor
with the ease and dispatch with which
man can lift his arm. Then there is Il
most admirable method in giving out ar
4 completing the work, added to an exec
= lent shop system. Each man knows pr
; cisely what IS required ofhim, consequen
= ly, wolkmen, machinery and facilities
= every description conduct their operation
= with the precision of clock work.
!e woRKER n WOOD
1t The ground we will say is wood, DO
lar, pine, ash and linn. These are brougl
is from Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, co
is tributing a portion ofthe consumed. The
lie are laid at the door of the dry hous,
d (planned by the Superintendent, Mr..
Is Allonas) dried and made ready for t
workshop. Let us follow it. Here is
pile of boards fresh from the dry hou.
. There stands an improved planer, (Pu
+ MANS patentl, which planes 1900 fe
per day on an average. Here is a cut
saw near the planer, which saws the ST.
- into the required lengths at a speed ev
- more remarkable. Between the cut
= saw and planer is a novelty, combining
one solid frame, occupying a trihing spat
W a cross-cut and rip saw. The table
= polished iron. Bysimply turning a Gran
the workman projects thro' the openi
l6 aifhar tba arooo-o ~ -, Il