The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-01
4 MINNESOTA THRESHER.
A Great improvement.
Read, Farmers.

this is termed the mechanical age. And per-
haps the inventive genius OF the country has
teen more severely taxed in producing labor
saving machines for the use o. the farmers of
the great Northwest than for any other INDUS
try.
1t is well known fact that Liverpool is the
wheat market of the world; it is equally well
understood that wheat is Minnesota's chief ar
ticle OF expectation. We are thus thrown in
competition with ''the pauper labor OF foreign
countries" and without any TARIFF protect
US Our wheat must travel across one-half the
entire continent before it reaches the seaboard,
thereby levying on us an excessive tax for
trans portation. Under all these circumstances
we naturally hail with delight any improve
ment in machinery that will lessen the cost of
wheat in our graneries. To the encouragement:
of all such enterprises, that will add to the
wealth OF the producing classes, the ANTI Mo-
NoPoLIsr is ever ready to lend helping
lad.
Realizing that our paper was devoted to the
interests Of the farmer, Mr.. T. Kinney, of the
firm OF Kinney Bros, OF this city, called upon
us on Tuesday last to take ride in the country
with him and witness an exhibition OF Min
nesota Thresher. Mr. Taisey, our general and
travelling agent, kindly consented to go and
witness the trial. Mr.. Taisey's judgment in
such matters we consider superior, as he is one
of the oldest threshers in the State, having
counties for great many years, and for several
years Ia,t has been engaged In the intro
duction and sale of farm machinery. His re-
port is substantially as follows: The machine
is the invention Of Mr.. Jas. Rooms, OF New
Auburn, Sibly county. This is the third
machine he has built. Mr.. Rooms has threshed
for the last ten tails in Minnesota; is first
class mechanic and has devoted q great deal
OF time and attention to the improvement of
threshers.
Without speaking disparagingly fanny other
machines in the market-all of which have
more or less good points, Mr.. Rooms, like
many other threshers. long since came to the
conclusion that what is known as the apron
machinel has, like many other good Ideas, had
its day, and the machine on trial is the re
suit of his experiment and experience. We
will try to give it such description that you
can form some idea OF its construction, al
though it is impossible to do 80 very intelligent
ly without the aid OF cuts.
The outside appearance OF the machine re-
sembles the Vibrator; it has but two belts, one
running the fan and other the stacker. All the
other parts are run by positive motion by
means OF pitmans on the right side of the ma
chine; there is but one carrier, it, drumming par
alel with the separator, and by means OF the
pitman has both horizontal and perpendicular
motion; this carrier is made of Stats placed
crosswise in the machine, attached to bed pieces
the bed pieces at about an angle OF forty five
degrees, sloping forward to prevent the grain
from pa sing back too fast, and about three.
fourths of inch apart. The grain i:
separated from the straw and the straw carried
from the machine by means OF the combined
horizontal and perpendicular motion of the
carrier, the wheat passing through the openins
between the Stats into tight box receiver I'M
derneath, which also has the combined move
ment spoken of above, delivering the grair
over the tan into the sieve. The tan has tn,
un9erblast, cleaning the grain perfectly.
| your grain is threshed uy this machine yo.
| have no use tor tanning mill.
/ The elevator is an entirely new device, dis
charging into the center of the spout and draw
up from the under side by means of woodel
blocks attached to two, leather belts, it beiu
absolutely impossible to clog the elevator,-al
improvement that will be appreciated b.
threshers, as this is their greatest source OF an
noyancc- the stacker Is supported by rope
wound up hy q crank, needing no legs for ii
support The machine needs no braces
standing perfectly still while in operation
passing perfectly tree from the cylinaer, tn
grain being perfectly separated by means &
the motion of the carrier.
The parties would not claim perfection 70
this machine, as that would be improbable
but they are very certain that it has NOR
points of excellence than any other rachin
now in the market The trial was . sever
test for machine, it having rAined tie nigh
before, and a mist falling during the day max
ing the butts of the bundles very wet, and tn
stack having stood all winter, the straw wa
quite rotten, so much so that il broke up
fine and labored;the seive excessively, but it di
its work handsomely, giving entire satissae
ton to the most severe critic Its capacity
only limited to the ability Of the feeder,
being An impossihii'ty to clog the machine
makeN waste grain-a very desirable point |
the farmer, who has toiled so hard and und.
80 many disadvantages to raise it. Anosh,
point Of excellence is-and great point too
there is no scattering under or about the m.
chine. When ron have put in the last bund
ron are ready to move, instead OF spending .
. hour in cleaning up, and that cleaning q
means ten bushels al dirty wheat and fro
.. two 70 i've bushels of wasse.
It's the design Of Mr.. Rooms, the Kinney Bro
Nr. Rosen and Mr.. KeFwin, 10 organize sto.
company for the manufactue OF the machi