Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-12
MOORE & KENNER.

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 rcputa-
ton and acknowledged merits of the ma
chinery manufactured by &. Ii. s. L. J.
Mccormick
Chicago, Sept. y. 1879.
THE NJ CoRMICK 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, pig iron, and Other materials.
The different manufacturing building are
located in the shape of Il rectangle, having
a frontage TO the north and south of $50
feet and to the east and west of 400 feet,
covering and inClosing space of over three
acres. Without going further into detail,
it may be observed that tie floor of the sur
face of these several buildings is 301 ,450
square feet or about seven acres; and in
the several different departments Of the fac
tory the firm have kept rs many as ] 900
employees at work. The season just closed
has been Il good one and no less than 25,-
900 machines have been sold. These ma
chimes have been disposed of in all the
great wheat growing States in the Union,
FROM seaboard to scaboard, from Texas 10
Manitoba. Nothing can better illustrate
the popularity of the Mccormick self bind
er, and at the same time show the growth
of the State, than the fact that
5,492 MACHINES
were sold during the past season III the
! State of MINNESOTA. On Mccormick, 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 1900 the coming year. The
! firm arc at present employing 500 hands,
and during the busy season have run the
! factory night and day. Ii might be inter
! cstilig to note, as an item Of news, that the
/ firm have very extensive trade with Great
| Britain and the European countries gener-
| ally, as we'll as with Australia, New Zca-
| land, South America, AMI South Africa.
! 1t will give some idea of the popularity of
|
at home to say that one years shipment to
New Zealand filled 1l6 freight cars-the
largest single shipment of agricultural i'm
elements, We veture to say, ever made at
one time on single order from any cstab-
| lishment in the world.
MIR. Mccormick in the Worlds Fair at
| London, i'll 1851, made an impression which
! has net been erased, which gave Europe an
idea Of the characteristic quality-origi-
nality-of our inventors. From that date
to the Paris Exposition, of 1878, he has tax
EN- the first prize at every one of the worlds
fairs. 1t has been shown above that TO Mr.
| Mccormick was awarded at the recent Par
is Exposition the highest honors ever givCr
an inventor, ard in The recent severe trial
for the golden medal of the Royal Agricul
tural Society of England, as usual, the Nc
! Cormick machine came out ahead and was
awarded the gold medal for it fulfilled the
conditions laid down.
The Mark Lane Express, of Aug 10, 1879
gives the following very interesting and
ably written account of the Mccormick
| Binder:
1T cuts breadth of FIVE feet, the cut
grain falling upon horizontal platform Of
endless web canvas, or, as the Americans
call it, 'ducking' carrying ribs of wood
This carries the grain toward the rear side
where it passes upward at an acute angle
almost perpehdicularly, between endless
webs, to Il height of nearly five feet, thus
rising over the main wheel, framing and
driving gear and the stuff, delivered in q
continuous stream, falls over upon hor-
iZontal table: binding arm, placed about
midway along the side of the table, advan
ccs toward the falling grain, strikes down
ward through it. separatinga portion for a
sheaf, and at the same time carrying down
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 the
wires are cut off and twisted together by a
rapidly rotating pinion below, named the
whirl. The sheaf remains upon the table
until the next sheaf pushes it off, with de-
| liberate, quiet motion. Nothing can eX-
coed the smoothness and unerring perfec-
! ton of this arrangement for binding. n
The sheaves are dropped with the greatest
regularity, lying in line, longitudinallv, or
| in the direction of the machines course,
with the butt ends foremost, and they are
some feet clear of the horse track. The
wire band is joined by q twist in two
places on opposite sides of the sheaf, leav-
ing the twisted ends sticking out for about
a couple of inches The special merit of
the work was in its perfect collection of II
the wheat, scarcely an ear being dropped.
thus absolutely the whole of the crop is
| bound in the sheaves, leaving nothing al
all to be raked up, and perhaps not more
than a handful per acre for cleaners.