Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-10-21
The McCormiek Self Binder.

At the Mower County. Agricultural Fair
held iu this city osp,lle 5th, 9th and 7th"f
this month, was to be see machine for
binding grain. It was styled The McC"r-
mick Self Binder, and attnchcdto har.
vester from the same house. It strsck
our notice, particularly. at first, from the
fact Of its looking anything but attractive.
No highly colored paint or tinsel Of any
kind being displayed to catch the eye Of
the passer.by.. ,'"': Y stn'd there ON its
merits. A machine built to- assist the far
mer In securing Ills harvest cheap'y. We
watched the working Of this machi'e as
it did its work. Large bundles, small
bundles, or bundles Of any size, were
bound without trouble, and as We listened
to the remarks Of practical farmers who
surrounded this peculiar and uninviting
piece of machinery, we became satisfied
that the great obstacle had been overcome
by the ingenuity Of man, and Mccormick
had solved the problem THAT self binder
had become q success. Isis, in nlytholo
e., was the p.incipa; Goddess worship
ped by the Egyptians. She WAS regarded
as the mother of Horus, and the sister and
wife Of Osiris. The Egyptians ad"red her
as the great bcncfactress Of their nn, y,
who instructed their ancestors in the ar'
of cultivating wheat and barley. Let Us
hope that Mccormick may he found to be
defendant on earth ofthis mythol"gica]
goddess, and prove to be Us great bcne
factor to The toiling agriculturists of the
great west, as his supposed grandmother
was to the Egyptians. At any rate hs
seems to be a, the lead now, and with tht
business capacity and capital OF tue houss
together with the reputation If his grea
Harvesting machines, it will be hard Il
supercedc his Self Binder. for every i'm
provement In the farm machinery lin.
that is credi,nble is given thorough in
ve>.igatlon and tried before adoption.
Below are few extracts from other ps
pers on the same subject:
The Mccormick = perfect Self-Rfnder Al
Last-.-rhe Improved Mccormick Rea.
| per 1T the State Fair.
Farm machinery has now reached sucl
a state of perfection, that the work of tn
| farmer is now diminished so that all tha
is required ofhim is that hc shall prompt
" make use of the means which science
has placed in his hands.
There are m my varieties of labor saw
ing machines tor farm work on exhibi
ton at the State Fir this year, and lin
agriculturis,s will have enough 10 do t.
examine them all. Among tEcnl al
there is no machine which mas 50 com
pletely won the confidence Of the Com
nlunity as the Mccormick reaper, Tor tn
good it has done, and this year 1t come
to its work greatly improved. ANON;
the greater improvements is the Sell
Binder, which IL = most perfect contri>
ance, and which is of ;ncalculable valu
Doth on the score of ec"nolny, as it save
an immense amount Of scattering, an
because of the rapid and tiuished MAI
ner in which it performs work wh'c
Can only be imperfcc,ly done by eve
skilled men. The binder has been 'estr
in fields where the wheat was over ripe
crnkled down and lodged, and the s,ra,
wet from heavy rains; and with the mos
perfect SUCCESS. surprising til '>e VIII" ha
before seen the machine. There is n
complicated machinery about the Bindc'
but it is w"nde; fully simple and not eas
TO get out OF order.
But there are so many advantages t
this Reaper that space forbids rehearsa
Of them at this time, and farmers mu:
examiue for themselves the one which
J. exhibited ON the grounds, by Messr
Rhodes.