Daily globe., 1879-07-12

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"mashers' were out in killing numbers.
THE MODEL SUPERINTENDENT OF MODEL
| FARM.
The management of this model farm
is committed to Mr.. A. S. Sunderland. Nc
better man could have been selected-the
verdict is written all over the the two
sections, and is seconed with emphacis by
Messrs. Clark & Jefferson. In this connect
ion they mention, that few days ago they
bought of the st. Paul Harvesters works an
eight foot Eureka moving machine, sent to
the farm, no instructions how to set it up
accompanying it, but with the intention
of sending over o man to put it in working
shape. A day or two after Mr.. Donohue
entered the Harvester works and spoke of the
excellent work the machine was doing.
"What machine and where ?'' asked Mr..
Deane.
"Over at Clark's farm. Your Eureka
machine" was the answer.
| Then Mr.. Deane declared that it could
not be SO it was impossible, as no one had
been sent over to put up the machine.
However, it was so. Mr.. Sunderland had
| got the machine in order and had been run
ming it for two days; while everybody else
was waiting to set up the machine it had
been putting in two days work. This is
characteristic of Mr.. Sunderland in all re-
spects.
THE EUREEA MOVING MACHINE.
Speaking of the Eureka Mower it is well
to make extended mention of this novel ma.
chine. It is one of the curiosities of the
farm, a marvel in the work it does, in guam
tity, dispatch and neatness.
10 enable all present to judge for them.
selves, the machine was put to test, one
which after an hours trial was pronounced
satisfactory in every particular.
To enumerate the particulars.
| 1t ls not amiss to tel
! just what the Eureka mower is, and what
| advantages are justly claimed for it over all
other machines designed for the same pur-
pose.
1t is new mower in principle and prac-
tice, and is manufactured exclusively by the
st. Paul Harvester Works for district ex-
tending westward from and including In
| diana. The machine has been known
in the East for two or three
years, having been first introduced near
| Elmira, N. Y, where it gave unbounded
satisfaction. A company was formed with
| headquarters at Towanda, Pa, and within
three years at the utmost the Eureka ma
chine has superseded all other mowers in the
| States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Maryland and the farther Eastern States
This has not been done with
| out notable contest, but in
| repeated State tests and at the
Centennial the Eureka was found to be supe-
rior to all rivals, and being victor took unto
itself the spoils in ceaseless orders to replace
| old mowers by this new invention. The Har-
vester works of st. Paul, having heard of this
marvel, conceived the Idea of combining it's
manufacture with their Edward harvester, and
thus present two of the machines most used
in this region, which would be unsurpassed
| by any other of their kind yet known. Ne
gotiations followed and resulted in the pur-
chase of the right to manufacture for the
Western district above named. This season
the st. Paul Harvester works have made 500
of the machines, and of the lot, at the be-
ginning of the week forty-one were left.
The Eureka mower differs from all its
predecessors in two notable respects. It is
wider, cutting swath of eight feet or six
feet in the clear; it has the motive power
(mule or horse attachment) directly in front
of the sycthe-bar. The first feature enables
the machine to do twice the amount of work
done by any other machine, as their width
of cut averages 81 feet; the second feature
gives direct draft to this mower, while
all others, have the bar on the side,
and thus make a lateral strain or twist to the
motive power. (horses).
!, Without any strain upon the reasoning
powers it can be readily seen that the direct
pull to the machine enjoys many advantages
over the lateral motion or twist strain which
obtains in all side-bar mowers. The horses
move straight ahead and are not balked by
any side jerks, jogs or pulls which inevitably
happen from the resistance in cut
ting obtaining with the side-ba1
mower, the Buckeye, Woods, etc.
To still further ease up on the horses, the
driving wheels of the Eureka measure forty
two inches in diameter, while the side-bal
mower averages wheel twenty-six inches in
diameter. This principle of mechanics
! speaks for itself. And this increased size OF
the wheel combined with the direct draft en-.
ables the eight foot Eureka mower to
do the work performed by q
four-foot side-bar machine, with from 20 to
rs per cent. less draft in favor of the Euie.
ka. In other words, with the same horse.
power the Eureka cuts an 8-foot, or say ~
| 1OOt, SWdtu, WulI0 any OIuor mower 8S yel
invented cuts 3155foo swath; this with o
draft of 16O pounds on the Eureka, and .
draft of 180 to 210 on the side-bar, say the
Buckeye, as the representative of the old
time mower.
But to be more precise in description
In the Eureka Mower, the wheels are large
and set back of the ends of the cutter bar
thus lessening the draft and making it direct
forward pull.
The cutter bar is six or eight feet long
| (the two class of machines manufactured
1t can be set to cut at any required heighth,
is attached to q floating frame and thus
readily adapts itself to tho unevenness of the
ground. It can be raised with perfect ease
by the driver.
! Nothing but spur gears are used, burr
J gears and such like complications used in
side cut machines are abolished.
The Pitman works at right angles with
the knife, thus jars and jolts are obviated
The machine is easily thrown in OF out of
gear by hand or foot. The horses are
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