The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-03-28
ImpleInentg. for Harvesting.

Upt to 1894 the sickle was the only i'm.
piement uRsd for harvesting email grain.
During that year the grain, cradle was
used in Scotland, and was considered The
most wonderful improvement OF the age.
because it enabled one man to 40 as much
reaping as seven had previously done
with the sickle. a s11,-
Until patent was granted By the
United States to one Husgev. In IS83. fnr
o reaper, no improvement had been made
upoh the cradle. In 1884 McC Cormick
received his first patent, and by. 1870, he
had only made and sold three hundred.
In 1866 the first two-wheeled reaper vfgs
made, and mp to that timn ten tke..ssss..d
had been made with but Bingle @heel.
In 1858 Hussey tried 70 cell his patent
for $4,000. He has made over S4l0. 900
BY 1t. Prior to 1863 every reaper made
had TO back the team to get up speed be-
fore it reached the grain, aud mot one
could stat to cnt yighk st the gsaiE.
Over two million Yeapers have been
made in the United SITES Gnu hundred
fifty-aix thousand were manufactured
during the year 1876. Over two thou
sand five hundred patenta have been
Issued on reaper End mowers einca Hna-
uey received his patent Mccormick has
spent over 81 ,O00, 600 on patents, and
from, their ancceas he Is supposed to have
made enough money TO buy out an ofdi-
nary State. He now has hundreds of
Thousands OF acres OF Iantis, and an inn,
mense amount invested III his manufac-
tories. .ssr
Haryeste1s are maShifea uron which
three n.en ride, one 60 drive and two to
bind the grain that ID by machinery
thrown into their laps as feet as Che
blades cut IL. There were $4,000 hasyea-
teS manufactured in. 1879. There ara
now 10000 900 invested la the manu-
factnre Of Feapefss and har1eataxa ~!
this amount 10 divided among tEanty-
eight factor. T.Aas In 1866 there tthsEstf5 wers i5S
snsnnfsctogiss OF, theE5 niachines, I6l of
them havo been closed out BY failure,
bankruptcy, competition, or soris other
cause chiefly becanhe of the great amount
Of capital necessary % make q SUCCESS of
the manufacture, and, tho leC1esincurred
by Investing la one kind, which batore it
could be proven TO be itiss tbs thing the
farlnsrE needed was superseded by an
other patent OF o nsora Improved ma.
chino, The reaper OF 1866 would not be
used BY the farmer OF to-day If It were
given him, because tho ifnpE0Yoinsnts
have been 30 great ? 4 IS.
Tho latesfiiiin npregsnent Is tho self
binding harvester, which cntg the grain,
throws il on platform. WHERE tits picked
up by machinery atid bound Wiz efge
and dropped 10 one side, no human HAND
touching it stall In 1875 theEe Naro
t.Ity osSiness machines made. In 1877
there were one Thousand, and to-day one
firrn has Sn order for four thousand for
the growing Wheat crop. Ia 1877 q siil-
lglo farmer ia Dakofah Territory en-
ployed twenty men TO drive bis twenty
thousand acres of wheat, which thTsshed
out l5O, 900 bushels Of gf.in, and no hfil
| man hand touched q thinr except the
bound bundles, which they carried tot the
thresher; and they sewed up the bags
| into which the thresher poured the gfaTa
tat the rate OF twelve hundred b;ishels
| per day, Each harvester cuts twenty
acres per day. 4 \ g, s. 3. s, 81
Sixteen hundred and & tiftyfeight patents
have been Issued for reed planters. and
ani fns aHad dill = yI1:si. ii = is.1
ent Of q corn planter one man with two
horses can plant and cover twenty scies
! Of corn in one day.
Three hundred and neYenty eight pat
| entS, have been issued for corn shelters.
| "a man BY steady work cen eheil about b
bnshel of corn Ia an hour. The latest
IpAteht enables one man, aided BY tWo
horses, 20 hhell aud sack 500 bushelsof
Corn in, ,ohs day,
The corn crop OF 1877, as feRcEtad by
the. . "a AgTic1 ltgraI De aftnlefit. FiAB 1 300
100 s00g bpsheI 9s'iHs gheat CROP was
| pesYIY 400, ,q0Q .000 bush els.
These are siass sliEg figures Who eau
grasp them =: yessesl ldssd Cenyie9s