Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-04-08

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Dealers in First Glass Farm Machinery.
McC ormick Self Bind
ers, Harvesters,
Reapers and Mowers.
Sulkey Hay Rakes, sulky and Walk
ing Cultivators, Buckboards, Pacific
Tanning Mill. Porcelain and Iron Lined
White Wood Pumps, Etc.
The following from the Chicago Inter
Ocean fully proves the world wide reputa-
ton and acknowledged merits of the ma
chinery manufactured by G. Ii. s. L. j.
Mccormick
Chicago. Sept. II. 1870.
THE MCCORMICK REAPER WORKS.
The space these works occupy comprises
about twenty-five acres, lying on the north
side of the south branch of the Chicago
River, all of which, excepting about three
acres that are covered by the buildings, is
used for railroad tracks, for stables, and for
piling lumber, pigiron, and other materials
The different manufacturing building are
located in the shape of q rectangle, having
q frontage to the north and south of $50
feet, and to the east and west of AGO feet,
covering and inclosing space of over three
acres. Without going further into detail,
it may be observed that the floor of the sur.
face OF these several Luildings is 30l ,45C
square feet, or about seven acres; and in
the several different departments of the fac
tory the firm have kept as many as !, 00C
employees at work. The.season Just closed
has been good one. and no less than 25,
600 machines have been sold These ma
chimes have been disposed of in all the
great wheat growing States in the Union
from seaboard to seaboard. from Texas Il
Manitoba. Nothing can better illustrate
the popularity of the Mccormick self bind
err, and at the same time show the growth
of the State, than the fact that
5,492 MACHINES
were sold during the past season in thu
State of MINNESOTA. On Mccormick
ledger Minnesota leads the United States
she is to that establishment indeed the ban
ner State. In 1856 Mccormick sold ten ma
chimes in that State one agent writes tina
he will sell 1000 the coming year. Thu
firm are at present employing 800 hands
and during the busy season have run thu
factory night and day. 1t might be inter
esting to note, as an item of news, that tn
firm have u very extensive trade with Grea
Britain and the European countries gener
ally, rs well as with Australia, New Zea
land, South America, ana South Africa
1t will give some idea of the popularity o
the Mccormick machines abroad as we'll a
| of 10 hat ,r1a IL .
New Zealand filled 116 freight cars-th
largest single shipment of agricultural i'm
elements, we veture to say. ever made a
one time ON single order from any estat
| lishment in the world
Mr.. Mccormick in the Worlds Fair a
| London, in 1851, made an Impression whic
has not been erased, which gave Europe a
idea of the characteristic quality-orig
nality-of our inventors From that dat
to the Paris Exposition, of 1878, he has tax
Ell the first prize ut every one of the world
fairs. 1t has been shown above that 10 Nj
Mccormick was awarded at the recent Pal
is Exposition the highest honors ever give
an inventor, ard in the recent severe tris
for the golden medal of the Royal Agricu
tural Society of England, as usual, the Nj
Corlnick machine came out ahead and wa
awarded the gold medal for it fulfilled til
conditions laid down.
The Mark Lane Express, of Aug 12, 1877!
gives the following very interesting and abb
written account of the Mccormick Binde
1t cuts n breadth of five feet, the c,
grain falling upon horizontal platform G
endless web canvas, or, as the American
call it, 'ducking' carrying ribs of Woo
This carries the grain toward the rear sid,
where it passes upward at an acute ang
almost psrpehdicular1y, between endles
webs, to height of nearly five feet, thl
rising over the main wheel, framing an
driving gear: and the stuff, delivered in
} continuous stream, falls over upon no
izontal table: binding arm, placed abo,
midway along the side of the table, adva
ces toward the falling grain, strikes dow
ward through it, separating portion for
sheaf, and at the same time carrying dow
the upper ply of wire beneath, and thus G.
compass the sheaf The arm then retreat
drawing the girded sheaf toward the sid
and in the course of this movement Il
wires are cut off and twisted together by
rapidly rotating pinion below, named u
whirl. The sheaf remains upon the tab
until the next shcaf pushes it off, with
liberate, quiet motion. Nothing can e
coed the smoothness and unerring perfe
ton of this arrangement for binding.
The sheaves are dropped with the create
regularity, lying in line, longitudinally,
in the direction of the machines cours
with the butt ends foremost, and they a
some feet clear of the horse track. II
wire band is joined by twist in tvs
places on opposite sides of the sheaf, lea
ing the twisted ends sticking out for abo
couple of inches, The special merit
the work was in its perfect collection of .
the wheat, scarcely an ear being droppe
thus absolutely the whole of the crop
bound in the sheaves, leaving nothing
all to be raked up, and perhaps not mo
than handful per acre for cleaners.