The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-07-01
$4,000 REAR CUTS.


doned if we manifest surprise at the man
ner in which c. Aultman & Co. raises the
question of veracity in our statements,
and the only apology we can conceive
for them, lies in the fact that what we
published as the proportion of front ast
Rear Cut machines contained the essen
tial properties of truth to so great an ex-
tent as to stagger them. 1t would seem
that they had never looked beyond a
Buckeye machine, and consequently fail
ed to note what was going on around
them. We are glad, however, to find
them over their own proper signature, as
it gives us the opportunity of discussing
the points in question and avoiding dis
agreeable contact with irresponsible cor
respondents.
In our general printed matter for 1875,
which includes three issues of our paper,
we stated that four.afths of all the COM
bined reapers and mowers made in 1875
were Rear Cut. In the DEMOCRAT of
June 18th we stated in five distinct
paragraphs the number Of machines
made and gave figures showing the above
proportion of front to Rear Cut. In no
issue of our paper have we ever stated
the number ofmaChines built in 1874, as
$4,000. In no issue Of our paper have we
drawn upon our imagination for figures,
nor allowed ourselves the "liberty Of ex-
travagant advertising" 1t is not an
impossible thing" to reach actual figures
in the number of machines manufac-
tured; close and careful calculation
from known quantities being far more
satisfactory than random assertions, or
figuring from unknoacn quantities. Now
let us take the matter up and see how the
leading machines of the country are divi-
ded in the one characteristic in question:
We will begin with the Buckeye. From
the most authentic records we give the
| following as the Buckeye product for
1874: Fourteen thousand four hundred
Buckeyes were built by the three large
shops making that machine. Of this
number, however, nine hundred were
one-horse machines, probably single
mowers, the few other shops making
from II to 200 each would, perhaps, make
an aggregate of $4,000 Buckeyes. The
"Wood" machine is simply a reaper, and
not a combined machine. The evil
liams" is center. cut, the knives being
in a line with the axle, and is more in
the nature of Rear than front cut. 1t
yet requires 7,155 machines in addition
to those made by the Buckeye shops to
reach the numberas published by us, viz
22155. The Excelsior and Eagle ma
chimes and all other front cut reapers and
mowers will possibly fill this gap.
Please turn now to the following list o.
the leading Rear Cut Com
bined Reapers and Mowers
and you will readily see how the pro
portion grows in magnitude. Cham
pion. Mccormick, Kirby
Dodge, Ohio, Peerless, Dor.
sey, Valley Chief, Hub
bard, johnson, Cayuga a
Chief, JnO. p. Nanny. These
shops alone make an aggregate of ovel
EIGHTY THOUSAND
REAR CUT MACHINES
They are all familiar names-every farm
er knows them. 1t is not difficult to ar
rive at the exact number built by eacl
shop, no more so than for C. Aultman {
Co. to say that the Wood people mad,
10000 machines. Adding the variou
t shops making Rear Cut Reapers ant
Mowers, and we easily reach the total
as before published, viz: 81, ,42l Rear Cut
We will indulge in closing inquiry
Will C. Aultman & Co. please inform u
where, in 1874, Buckeye machines wer
built to the number, or to exceed tn
: number of 22,l552 This information
would be particularly valuable.
G. RUssELI & Co.
Canton. o.. July |. 1876.