Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-01
LNAGTS FOR f RMERS

LNAGTS FOR f RMERS
sirce 1858, One Hundred Thirty-six Thousand
and six Hundred of Walter A. Woods Harvest
ting achines have been manufactured and sold
At least one hundred and ten thousand were in
use during the past harvest season, and in Rut.
land County alone there were in good running or
DER, during the having season of 1871, a. Least
Seventy-five Wood Mowers, that were from ter
to twelve years old. During the last twelve years
a score of different Mowers have been brought be.
fore the public, tri.d, found wantit G, condemned
| and thrown under the fence.
In 1868, the Whitehall Chronicle, in speaking
! of Moving Machines, said Every year witness
es the death of Mowers constructed ON wrong me
chanical principles, and every year new Mowers
como before the public destined to the same in
| glorious end"
few years ago there were In Rutland county
Moving Machines that were for time shsrI
competitors of the Wood Mower, but to-day
where are they Thrown aside, or sold for old
| iron, and no more of the same kind are being
mauufsc tured. II there should be few of those
m 4chiues still in existence, the much needed eX.
ira parts for re airs cannot be obtsined-hence
| they worthless ta their owners.
think the observation and ex perien e OF farm
ers Will uphold me in the above statement. Al
this entails loss on the farming community, and
any one can perceive it would be cheaper to pur
| chase only Stan dard Mowers.
Nearly every agent for these new Mowers re
C ammend Their own m achinss by decryiDg first
elias standard mowers. And the Wood Mowel
seems TO come in for a full III are of such abuse
Reasoning according to the old adage, that 'Th'
most clubs are found under the best tree in tn,
orchard, )" the Wood is entitled To something mor'
than passing notice.
AS a rule, all new mowers are recommended al
being of lighter draft than any of the STANDARD
machines. They are great improvement ts anC
must take the place of all other machines row il
use, of course they must, because they are latel
improve ments, and possess some very novel
lures. Even if the novel features are obtained a.
the sacrifice of practical fea' ur'. il IL cai m
ed 10 be Improvement. One aRs' Say
"Wby, the man that invented my mos er, was
the same man that invented the Wood Mover
and sold him the patent" Another m in his
zeal, ys:-"Walter A. Wood ha, ffe ed s-ye l.
ty-hve thousand dollars for the p tent IN my
mower" These stories are hardly worth 4t'en-
ton, but mentioned to show the ways ?. sort
ed to by agents TO force an inferior ar ice upon
farmers
AS rule, the inventor Of tie Wood Mower
never adopts any improvement simply because il
is novel. His aim is to produce a simple and
practical a Mower possible. At the ma nufac
tory, large numb of proposed improvements
tested. but where one is adopted, scores
are rejec ed and in many cases, the newell at
tachment OF some new Mower, that is tTumpeted
abroad by their agents, it is afterwards learned
has been testtd at the Wood manu- factory aud
rejected.
If any manufacturing establishment in the
world has the facilities for making good work
bringing out inprovements-the experience 10
enable them TO judge of the practicabiIty OF such
lmprovement-canp point 10 unprecedented sales
as an evidence OF success-can say to their pat
rons we have always furnished extra parts for
our machines, even for those first maze, and can
show large number of very old M chine still IN
good running order-it is the Waller A. Wood
Moving and Reapirg Machine Company, of liz D
r. w. MOS LEY, Gen Agent.
Ponlrney. VT.
Send for Circular. Names of Local Agsn's
will be gwen hereafter. may sd wl"m2