The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-08-03
HARVESTER.
How MOficlf Rurslcd the
Edward and Adams L. French,
Uarvcsiers---TOO Thin To vVash---
Truth stranger than Fiction.

/ How MOuetf turSlC0 the
Edward and Adams L. French
IIarvcsicrs---TOO Thin Ia Svash--'
Truth stranger than Fiction.
We had proposed to let well
enough alone, as we were satisfied
with tho effect of those Harvester
trials aud in fact were only too badly
ashamed to think we should be found
competing these two celebrated
/ narvesters against such Harvester
as the Massillion. But a wounded
bird autters and dies hard. Wind
against good sense. The marvellous
youth, Moilett, tells his tales about
different Harvester trials; how many
truths and how many falshoods can
be CLEANED from two accounts in
last weeks issue of the Idcertiser
and Conservative. We would advise
our young friend as he is just starting
out in business to always keep the
truth on his side as that wears much
the longest. At the trial of Harvest
ers Thursday, July 20, 1876, between
the Massillion, Marsh and Edward on
the farm of Mr.. Coflman, three miles
east Of Upton, it looked very much
to an outsider as il the Massillion and
Marsh had entered into conspiracy
10 run the Edward off the track, as
the Edward had previously been bar
gained for by Mr.. Coifman, provided
it did tho work satislactory-upon
which conditions the Edwards are al
ways sold. Then came the Massillon
and Marsh, getting their experts
from head quarters to instruct and
see to the running Of their harvesters
with the best team in the country to
haul them, etc, and followed the FL
ward TO the field, which was unpack-
ed and set up on the ground, and not
run on the road or otherwise previous
to the trial. The Edward was hauled
by Mr.. Coffman's team, which is 4
good road team, aud good for other
business, but very poor team for .
harvester. Moifett spoke in Conser-
cotice about the Edward Agents
proposing to have the harvester frat
tried in piece of green oats badly
down where the ground was very
rough and thickly strewn with corn
stalks. The harvesters were
first and last tried under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Coifman. The Edward
led off cutting once around taking the
opening swath around the piece with
the best success of any swath cut in
the OATS, as NJ. Cofmin afterwards
remarked to the writer. The Ell
ward was the harvester that turned
and picked up the last back swath the
farthest down IN the slough with the
same success, as parties will attest, cut
ting and elevating it perfectly, making
clean work, and was not troubled with
corn stalks or stopped on account Of
clogging any more than the Massillon.
That part was equal and for y man to
claim that machine will not clog with
corn stalks is too thin to be taken in by
our intelligent farmers. The haryesters
were then taken into a piece of barley,
short crinkled and down. parts OF the
field being very miry. Here the real
test began, as Mr.. Mofiett says. Yes,
and here, as the purchasers of the FL
ward say, the Massilon got badly
scooped. The Massillcn was the first
to lead of, in order to take all the ad.
vantages Of the ground and get all the
straw under their drive wheel, possibly
to hold it up out Of the mud. After un.
loading their binders and stopping sew
cral times to let their mules wind, the
round was made, The Marsh then fol.
lowed, cutting one round. Then came
the Edward, cutting and elevating sp!en
didly to the entire satisfaction of the
purchasers Of the Edward and all disin-
terested parties, SO much so that the
other machine men kicked and squirmed
their utmost and claimed the Edward
was on "A higher cut, etc, which was
false, as stubble was the same height,
and when the Edward strack the miry
spot it cut twenty feet farther into it
before sliding and twenty feet farther
out of it on the opposite side than any
other harvester on the ground. 1t is
expected that rcsined belt to drive a
double canvassed elevator with buckles |
on the inside that can not be got at |
when the elevator clogs without much |
trouble and will slip with dews and af- |
ter rain storms, will run with less noise |
than chain that runs in ratchet wheels |
to make positive motion to single Gle. |
vator canvass, that will not slip in dews |
or after rain storms. Who says Massil- |
Ion way ahead? Who says victory |
when Edward was sold on the ground |
and one more Edward was sold the next |
day to C. w Hoffman, a near neighbor
to the Messrs. Diltz, to whom they had |
told all about the trial, and several |
other Edwards sold since from the eff |
fects of that trial, and still they come
Who has the victory now, and who has |
got the boss harvester?
CEDAR BLUFFS, CEDAR Co, Iowa.,
July 2lst, 1876.
To Fho,g il Nay Concern:
Having thoroughly tried and tested under |
the most adverse circumstances the Edward |
Harvester's many excellent qualities on our |
own farm, and also being present at the trial |
at Mr. Cotfman's, July 20, between the Mas |
sillon, Marsh and Edward Harvesters, where |
we then and there bought the Edward that !
was in the trial at regular prices after Mr.. |
Cotfman had taken the Massillon, as we |
thought the Edward did by far the best work |
Of any Harvester in that trial-especially in |
the down and crinkled barley where it |
scooped the Massilion badly. Weare pleas.
ed to say that the Edward is without fault |
or imperfectisn and little marvel of econ
omy; also that it is the easiest running |
harvester we know of and we can truly
state that it has not a pound of side draft or |
neck draft, as has been thoroughly domon-
strated to us this day The ease of binding,
the perfection of eleyating, the efficiency Of
the large binders box for saving all scatter
ings, are unsurpassed; and for cutting bar.
ley, by taking OFF the rails that the grain is
bound on and allowing the barley to run
over the elevator in continuous stream
and be caught in the large binders box and
pitched off as fast as sufficient amount is
gathered, in punches over the field, thus
saving raking it up or bleaching the barley
SO badly is another big item in its favor.
GEO. w. DILTz,
DAVID DILTZ,