The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-02
Trial Of Agricultural Machinery at
the Vienna Exhibition.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,


WASHIN GTON, D. c., 1873. {
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
received from Mr.. Jay, Minister of the
United States at Vienna, a communica-
ton in reference to the Universal
Exhibition to be held at that city DUR
ing the coming summer, accompanied
by a proof copy of the official pro-
gramme of ''Fie1d Trials of Agricultural
Machinery" The information furnish
ed by this programme is herewith made
public for the benefit of manufacturers
and others who may contemplate sending
agricultural machines to Vienna for
competition at the approaching exhibit
tion.
It appears that the earliest period
fixed for the production of the imple-
ments and machinery on the ground is
the 10th of June, and that the first trials
will take place on the 18th of June so
that there Is yet ample time for the
transmission from the United States of
machines intended for competition.
Mr.. Jay remarks that great Importance
is attached to these trials by the leading
firms in England, Belgium, and Germany
and that a lively interest is felt in the
result of the competition by the landed
prOprietors of Austria, Hungary, the
Danubian Principalitiss, and the Rus
sian Steppers whose wheat is shipped
from Odessa.
We learn from the programme that the
trials of machinery Will take. place at
LeOpOldsdorf, and IN case of need also
at Guttenhof, both or which are State
railway stations, the former four and the
latter two German miles from Vienna.
The trials will be held Between the 18th
of June and the Both. of July, according
to the state of the crops and of the
weather, the periods of the different
trials being approximately fixed as
follows:
Between the 18th and 22d of June
for all implements for the cultivation of
hOed produce, to work in potato, fodder,
root-crop, pulse, and maize fields; root
and chaff cutters, mashing and crushing
mills, corn shelters, oil-cake breakers,
driven by hand, horse-gear, or steam
power deep blowing in two-year clover
fields with steam-plOws, and manure
distribution in fallow-felds.
Between the 25th and Both of.Juue-
all sorts of reapers and mowers, hay
turner's and hay-rakes
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threshing machines, straw elevators,
winnowing machines and screens, for
hand, horse gear, or steam power, for
rye, wheat and barely.
Between the 21st and and 25th of July
-steam-plow work of every description
trials in common plowing on pasture
land and corn fields working of drills,
harrows, and rollers.
Machines, bearing the exhibitors
name, country, and residence, are to be
directed to the "Chief Manager of the
Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873"
at the SiebenbTunn Railway Station,
Staatsbahn. Exhibitors must care them
selves for the transport oftheir machines
to and from the place of trial, and also
procure themotive power and attendance
for the machines working IN the fiel !.
The quality of the material whereof
the machines are made, the excellence of
construction, the applied draft or steam
power, the consumption of coal, the
indicator diagrams of the steam-engine
the whole prodree as to quantity and
quality-all these points will be jointly
set down in a general table, to serve, in
the deliberations of the jury as helps
and guides for awarding prizes.
FRED'K WATTS,
Commissioner of Agriculture.