The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-08-26
SELF-B:N

It is very evident the days Of hand
binding are nearly numbered. Some
half dozen patents have heen under
trial this year and have worked ::sl]
enough to convince eli tbat Self: Din.
ders are an accomplished fact. They
will bo in the market next year, We
clip the following account Of trial
from the Rochester Post.
The machines promptly on hand
were the Fassett, the Mccormick, and
the Locke Binders. They made few
circuits around a field Of wheat, but
before ANY arrangements had been
made for the appointment OF Judges
or any competitive trial of the merits
Of the different binders, rain came
Oh that stopped all satisfactory work.
We cid cot sse the machines at
work, aEd therefore can only give the
Impressions conveyed by TIE rtatenent
of :aose who we're more fortunate.
Ehe Nas3ett Soif-bicder il machine
ma uuiactured at St. Louis. It's ia7en-
tor has teen ezpe.im onting with IL for
severa! years, snd we arc told that
there ars sixty Ct the machines COW
in use ;c the harvest fields in different
parts Of the country. It has the great
advantage OF using twine lor h;nd;ng,
whic:: Is an Important point in i:s ia.
vo-. The binding portion of this ma.
chine is perfect, tying the bundles and
delivering them in first rate shape,
and is tic simplest of all the binders
i1 its construction, but it wss atta ched
to a reaper that failed to carry the
bundles to the binder as readily as is
desirable. The machine has not yet
been offered for sale, and is now in the
field only for experiment; but we are
told that the manufacturers are so we'll
satisfied with it's work as binder that
they intend to put it in the market
next year. If they modify it so as to
carry the grain to the binder as we'll
as is now done by the other machines,
they will have a perfect binder. 1t
makes a good shaped and weil-tied
bundle, and we expect to see it be-
come a very popular machine.
We went on Wednesday morning
and saw the Mccormick Binder at
work in the same field, 1t is attached
to the Mccormick Harvester and
binds with wire. 1t has not yet been
offered for sale, but the experiments
with it is Intended to put it in the
market for sale next year. We saw 1t
make three circuits around the field,
doing as clean work as any harvester,
bindln: every bundle tightly and we'll
and delivering them in good slap. [,
did its work perfectly; nothing more
could be wanted than than machine
that will do such work as We saw done
there.
The Gordon Binder came on as we
were leaving on Tuesday afternoon
and made only one course around the
tieln in the rain. 1t did good work.
1t is a bindor attached to the Marsh
Harvester, and thus far has only been
used experimentially, but it is intend
ed to put it in the market next eason.
It binds with wire. We did not see
enough Of its working on this occasion
to express an opinion, but we saw it.
week previously when it did good
work and We were pleased with its
binding.
We did not see the Locke Binder
at work but heard those who did see
it speak we'll Of its work
While the binder trial was failure,
as competitive test of the merits OF
the different machines, it was very
satisfactory as demonstration Of the
success Of the principle of self binding
machinery. Sclt-binders have been
talked of and exhibited here for sever
al years past, but this is the first time
that every body has admitted their
prac;;cab;iity. The result of the exhi-
bition Of the machines in the field this
season has been to convince the most
old fosyish and incrcdulous that the
binding Of grain by machinery is al
ready an accomplished fact By
another year there will be hall a-dozen
machines in the field which will do
their own binding.