The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-07-05
COMM THRo' THE RYE.
the Reapers and Other
Labor-Savers.


WORK OF A MIsCREANT-THBE EUREKA
MowER-sULKY PLows-HARvEsr MA
CHIMES.
Especial Correspondence of the Sentinel
PERDUE UNIVERSITY, LAFAYETTE,
June %, 1876.
The few readers of the local papers here
should be advised not to gauge their esti-
mate of the grand implement trial this
week by the mesger and inadequate no.
tices of the Lafayette press. The talent of
some OF these journals is questionable.
In the line OF evsdiDg duty in their own
field and belittling what is of most value
10 their home affairs, they manifest
m srked alb lily at all N ". The pr sent
oc aston Is no exception to the rule.
Twenty six lines measures the value
which this mornings Journal puts upon
the grand afternoons work of Yesterday,
which, in bGth the pillow 6eld and hay
field. showed some of the best work ever
DONE and gave instruction of untold value
to the mum bers of intelligent spectators on
the ground. The fact is, the trial yester-
day was a grand success both in the char
acter OF the work and the progress made.
The rain having concluded to su-psnd, the
water dried up rapidly 50 that operations
were not seriously interf-red with by the
condition OF the ground. The plowineltests
were continued with some of the best re-
suits that IL is possible to attain, at least it
SO appeared to men who are the bess judges
of such matters. No more valuable service
can possibly be done to the farmers of
the state than to inform them fully OF inn
proyements which save labor and money.
Hundreds and thousands have no idea OF
the real advantages to be- gained by the
use of superior implements and machin-
cry. Nor does it follow that the best are
always the costliest. There are plows
made in this state and sold ~ Sl4 which
are 30 much better than others brought
from distant states ct double the cost that
it would be good economy for the owrer
of the latter to throw it into fence corner
and buy the former. In practice there is
no com parison between them. So also of
mowers, reapers, and other classes OF ma
chinery.
LITTLE INCIDENT
happened last night which has
excited considerable remark. The South
Bend chilled pillow was one
of the instruments whose work was above
all criticism yesterday. 1t is without
question a wonderful implement. After
the work yesterday the pillow was left with
numerous other machines by the roadside
in front of the university. This morning
its polished mould-bOard was found
broken in two through the middle. The
grief and vexstion of the agent when he
found il this morning were so great that
he could not refrain IRON shedding tears
like child. Various surmises and theo-
ries were offered as TO the cause OF the ac-
cident, but the whole matter must be left
| to conjecture, SIS the truth can not be
known. There is q lively contest about the
respective merits CT the walking and
riding plows, the main distinction
of merit pertaining to the compare i've
that point will be made to-day with the
dyuamometer. There were tested vester-
day the following mowers: The Eureka,
| a center draft, wide-cutting machine,
manu- sctured by the Patrons Associe-
ton at Indianapolis; the Johnston, from
| Brock port, n. Y: the Planet, Richmond,
Ind; the Champion, Sprin sfed, o.; tue
Buckeye OF Ohio; the Wood, Hoosac Falls,
N. Y, and the Climax, from Cory, Pa.
AS stated yesterday, the grass used for the
test was the worst that mower could be
put into-clover aud timothy badly
| lodged and ia gled on soft ground, with
thick underground OF fine blue grass,
which would stop any machine
that could be chOked down.
All the machines did marvellously
good work, ar d some stood the test wi b.
and for the interest of the farmers it ought
to pe told, the
EUREKA OF INDIANAPOLIS,
with its novel simplicity, swept the field
by long way. The COMMITTEES, of course,
did not say so; their verdict will remain
sealed till the end of the state fair. But,
30 far as 1 can learn, the voices of all the
spectators are unanimous that "the Eureks
beats every thing" 1t does more work,
better work, and takes less power than
any other m schine that has ever been in
vented and used. Until something new is
devised, this must lead the crowd ana
command the IA ronage of the c,untry
For Instance, take only one point. 1t cuts
six feet wide, or mows fifty per cent. more
grass with eqnsl time and less power than
any sld draft machine. That fact alone
settles he question OF its merits. But add
To this it's perfect operation In all sorts OF
grass and grcunt: that IL runs back and
forth on the same side of the field, OBJ
Waiting the Inconvenience of surrounding
patch so tina field can be mOwn TO the
best advantage: that it leaves the grass
just where it stood in the best shape to
dry aud TO be taken up; that it turns
shor or, never chokes and is more easily
managed than the siie-drsft mowers, and
hat IL tails at no point. What more can
be sai0? Yet my eptuusissm is GOODNESS
compared WITH tn t OF farmers who
know most about machines of this class.
While the reapers were getting ready for
their tussle during the forenoon there was
livels contest among the sulky plows.
Psows we're enteren by the following five
companies: The Moline, Illinois; DaveD-
port, Iowa; Deere IL Co., Illinois;
B ID. But rd, Rock island, Illinois
and the "Cohr" by J.P. E st q Co, Freeport,
Illinois. fne last named was ssiu by some
to have done the best work. Meantime,
some OF the fifteen or twenty cuItivsiors
we're Displaying their comparative merits