Little Falls transcript., 1880-07-02


Your house is on fire!
Your children will burn! -
Fly away, Lady Bird!
Fly away home!
And bring me good fortune
Whenever you come"
Translated from the French by-Emma B.
Richardson.
A PERFECT SELF-BlNDER.
A Matter of Great Interest to our
Wheat Growers.
Facts Worth Reading Concerning the Most
Effective Self Binder yet put into
the Field.
Walter A. Wood is this year putting on the
market IN large numbers new and more
complete Self Binder than any that has ever
before been made. 1t binds with twine, which
| is cheaper, and avoids the many objections to
| wire. One of the worst features about the
| wire Is that it wears and cuts into whatever 1t
runs over, 80 that while the machines may
run well enough while in order, they soon get
out of order, and the farmer Is not able to dis.
cover the trouble. The twine does not cut in.
to the machinery at all, and the wear caused
| by the twine is impreceptible.
Again, the Wood Twine Binder ia so arrang-
| ed, that when it has received sufficient grain
for bundle, it trips itself into gear and binds,
| and waits for another bundle, never binding
tn 1t has bundle, and binding it surely then.
On all wire binders the size of the bundle
must be controlled by the driver. He often
forgets, and binds either too small bundles,
| thus causing waste of wire and time In hand
| ling small bundles or lets the binder rest too
| long, thus getting too large bundle and eth
er straining the machine or causing the
bundle to fly open, or both. 1t takes consider
u n tn To
the wire binder. He often has enough to do
to see to his team, SO Is to cut full swath,
get around distractions, etc. On the Wood
Twine Binder the driver does rot have to see
to the size OF the bundle at all, great relief to
him.
The Wood Binder also takes the grain away
from where the harvester delivers it as fast Us
1t comes. Wire binders leave all the gram
till there is full bundle, or the driver lets the
binder operate. This is very important fea.
| ture in lodged felde, where The grain often
comes up IN bad shape, so that when the bind
er has to take the whole bundle at once, it
| cannot we'll handle the tangled mass, or if it
| does it ties several bundles together that must
be torn apart by the shockers.
NAIL THAT FALsEHooD.
Competitors have great fear of the Wood
Twinc Binder. They see that their occupa-
tion of making wire binders Is near its end,
and some of them resort to most disreputable
means to stem the swelling current. They
assert that they will make twine binders another
year, which they will exchange for wire bind
ers sold this year. Some farmers are sharp
enough to require written agreement from
the agent that successful twine binder shall
be put on the harvester next year, or there
shall be no pay. But agents inuasia6ly refuse
/ to give. such ar.scritteaa agreements, however
| ready they are to make the verbal promise
necessary to effect the sale.
ho horn fol
some is, however, that they claim that Wood
issued a confidential circular to his agents ad-
vising them to sell wire binders, and not to
sell twinc binders. No such circular was ev-
er issued by Mr.. Wood, nor anything of such
import. He set out to build 81 10 of the twine
| binders (besides large number of wirs bind
ers) and contracted for stock for that number
last fall. So urgent has been the demand that
he has increased the facilities for manufacture
ing so as to get out 4,OOO. The St, Louis
branch house has sold l 500 OF them; most of
these have gone through, the harvest. They
write that they could have sold six thousand
| if they could have got them And yet COM
petitors say that Wood does not want to sell
| twine bindersl The competitors are the ones
| that do not want Mr.. Wood to sell twine bind
| ers. These competitors found q circular from
Wood agent that buys his machines who
knew all about the Wood wire binder, and
| at the time OF writing the circular knew but
that they had better sell the wire binder which
they understood and knew all about. The
circular was issued early last fall, and without
MIR. Woods knowledge or consent, and he
disapproved it strongly when he saw it; but
an agent who buys his machines has the right
| TO sell them as he chooses and the matter
was not within Mr.. Woods control. Those
who circulate the stories about Mr.. Wood haY.
ing issued such q circular know better, and
the thing will react on them. 1t is
strange that some men cannot treat compet-
| itors with any kind of fairness. II Mr.. Wood
has worthless machine, which these com.
petitors say he has, why do they fight it 80
desperately? The very fact that they all COM
bine to fight 1t, shows their fear.
| reports from the South that the Wood Binder
Is failure, etc. To show what kind of failure
| it is, soon as harvest commenced, Mr.. Wood
put on night forces at the factory and is
| crowding the works to their utmost to turn
out machines. Not one.half the orders can be
| filed. We do not make this statement in Or
| der to effect sales; that is not necessary There
are, however, many men who can put of buy.
ing machine till next year, and would do so
if they were then sure of getting reliable
! twine binder. We advi.e all to defer ordering
wire binders who can possibly do so, and see
what the twine binders do this year. Our
agents are urged strongly to supply only those
xu Mno MLso 1 nave aa aclnes sals year ana 70 gei
between 1000 and 1900 twine binders into
Minnesota alone, and there will be plenty OF
opportunities to learnju Just what the binder Is.
TESTIMONIALS.
| We can furnish testimonials In LARGE num.
bers Of what the binders haze done in lie south.
ern fields, and will do 80 on application. We
Is one from Clinton Douplas. whose residence
! is PIainyiew, MIMI. who has zone South h
help start binders.
Ar-,,od ot th;s nn:ot 49,. ~ june n., H., 10y y,
o,o1aot H"ze % .s ae+ puS ~, threa ..S at.,a ~
az r1;tb the heIr ~ rIen9v " USe -"
| took one out 1our miles ana started at6 p. m
cut seven tlmes alouna ten'acre nelo, ano
aiter nttle adjustment OF tension and graspel
tne nrst lew Ioos II went on IKE TOP: Never
saw sucn pertect Work IN .Gny neid. The Pur
,rH,ook :,