Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-11

The following from the Chicago Inter.
Ocean fully proves the world wide rcputA-
ton and acknowledged merits of the ma
chinery manufactured by G. II. s. L. j.
Mccormick
Chicago, Sept. r. 1879
TIE N CoRaICK REAPER WORKS.
The space these works occupy comprises
about twenty-five acres, lying on the nerth
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 ables and for
piling lumber, pig,iron, and other materials.
The different manufacturing building are
located IN the shape of u rectangle, having
q frontage to the north and south Of $50
feet, and to the east and west of 80 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 buildings is 30l, $50
square feet, or about seven acrss; and in
the several different departments of the fac
tory the firm have kept as many as 1000
employees atwork. The season Just closed
has been good one. and no less than 20
! 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 to
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
S, 492 MACHINES
! were sold during the past season N the
| State of MINNESOTA On 3IcCormlck' s
| 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 that
he will sell 2,000 the coming year. The
! firm are at present employing 500 hands,
and during the busy season have run the
factory night and day Il might be inter
esting to note, as an item Of news, that the
firm have a very extensive trade with Great
Britain and the European countries gener-
! ally, as well as with Australia, New Tea
land, South America, ana South Africa
1t will give some idea of the popularity of
the Mccormick machines abroad aswell as
at home to say that one years shipment to
New ZealaHd filled 116 freight ears-the
largest single shipment Of agricultural i'm,
| elements, We yeture to say, ever made al
one time on 8 single order from any estah
lishment in the world
Mr.. Mccormick in the Worlds Fair a
London, in 1881, made an impression which
has not been erased, which gave Europe al
idea Of the characteristic quality-origi
nahty-of our inventors. From that date
to the Paris Exposition, of 1878, he has tax
en- the first prize at every enc Of the worlds
fairs. It has been shown above that to Mr.
| Mccormick was awarded at the recent Par
is Exposition the highest honors ever givel
an inventor, ard in the recent severe tria
for the golden medal of the Royal Agricul
tural Society of England, rs usual, the Nc
Cormick machine came out ahead and wa!
awarded the gold medal for it fulfilled TIT
conditions laid down.
The Mark Lame Express, of Aug. IL, 1879
gives the following very interesting and ably
written account of the Mccormick Binder
| 1T cuts a breadth of five feet, the Gu
grain falling upon horizontal platform O
endless web canvas, or, as the American
Cafl it, 'ducking' carrying ribs of wood
This carries the grain toward the rear side
where il passes upward at an acute angl
almost perpehdieularly, between endless
webs, to height of nearly five feet, thu
rising over the main wheel, framing ant
driving gear: and the stuff, delivered in
continuous stream, falls over upon hor
ixontal table: a binding arm, placed abou
midway along the side of the table, advan
ces toward the falling grain, strikes down
ward through it. separating portion for
sheaf, and at the same time carfying dow
the upper ply of wire beneath, and thus en-
compass the sheaf. The arm then retreats
drawing the girded sheaf toward the side
and in the course OF this movement iii
wires are cut off and twisted together by
rapidly rotating pinion below, named til
whirl. The sheaf remains upon the tabl
until the next sheaf pushes it off, with y d.
liberate, quiet motion. Nothing can eS
coed the smoothness and unerring perfec
ton of this arrangement for binding.
The sheayes are dropped with the greates
regularity, lying in line, longitudinallv, Q
in the direction of the machines course
with the butt ends foremost, and they ar
some feet clear of the horse track. Th
wire band is joined by twist in tw
places on opposite sides of the sheaf, leay
ing the twisted ends sticking out for abou
a couple of inches. The special merit c
the work was in its perfect collection of a
the wheat, scarcely an ear being dropped
thus absolutely the whole of the crop
bound in the sheaves, leaving nothing !
all to be raked up, and perhaps not nor
/ than a hatYdfI1 t,nr ofrn for u1nannrc