Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-01
House & Weber,

Mccormick SelfBind-
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 G. II. s. L. J.
Mccormick
Chicago, Sept IL, 1879.
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, pig-iron, and other materials.
The different manufacturing building are
located in the shape of a rectangle, having
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 buildings is 301 ,450
square feet, or about seven acres; and in
the several different departments of the fac
tory tbs firm have kept as many as LOCO
employees at work. The season just closed
has been a good one. and no less than %,
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
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 in the
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 i'll that State one agent writes thai
he will sell 1900 the coming year. The
! firm are at present employing 500 hands
and during the busy season have run the
factory night and day 1t might be inter
esting 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 Zea
land, South America, and South Africa
It will give some idea of the popularity OF
the Mccormick machines abroad as we'll as
at home to say that one years shipment te
New ZealaRd filled 116 freight carS-th,
largest single shipment of agricultural i'm
elements, we vetuFc to say, ever made a
one time on a single order from any estab
lishment in the world
MIR. Mccormick in the Worlds Fair q
London, in 1881, made an impression which
has ,nf hon, xx,l>
idea Of the characteristic qnality-origi
nality-of our inventors. From that dat,
to the Paris Exposition, of 1878, he has tak
ell the first prize at every one of the world
fairs. 1t has been shown above that 10 Mr.
Mccormick was awarded at the recent Par
is Exposition the highest honors ever givcl
an inventor, and in the recent severe tria
for the golden medal of the Royal Agricul
tural Society of England, as usual, the Nc
Cormick machine came out ahead and wa
awarded the gold medal for it fulfilled til
conditions laid down.
The Mark Lane Express, of Aug. 12, 1879
gives the following very interesting and abb,
written account of the Mccormick Binder
''lt cuts breadth of five feet, the Gu
grain falling upon horizontal platform o
endless web canvas, or, as the American
call it, 'ducking' carrying ribs of wood
This carries the grain toward the rear side
where it passes upward at an acute angl
almost psrpendicularly, between endles
webs, to a height of nearly five feet, thu
rising over the main wheel, framing an
driving gear: and the stuff, delivered in
continuous stream, falls over upon hoI
izontal table: binding arm, placed abou
midway along the side of the table, advan
ces toward the falling grain, strikes down
ward through it. separatinga portion for
sheaf, and at the same time carrying dow
the upper ply of wire beneath, and thus er
compass the sheaf. The arm then retreats
drawing the girded sheaf toward the side
and in the course of this movement tn
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 a de
liberate, quiet motion. Nothing can eS
coed the smoothness and unerring perfec
ton of this arrangement for binding.
The sheaves are dropped with the creates
regularity, lying in line, longitudinally, O
with the butt ends foremost, and they ar
some feet clear of the horse track I'll
wire band is joined by twist in tw
places on opposite sides of the sheaf, leay
: ing the twisted ends sticking out for abou
couple of inches. The special merit Q
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 6
all to be raked up, and perhaps not NOR
than handful per acre for cleaners.