Stevens County tribune., 1880-01-22


Mccormick SelfBind-
ers, Har esters,
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. II. 1879.
THE NJ COR3IICK 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 lum Der, pig iron, and other materials.
The different manufacturing building are
located in the shape of u rectangle, having
Il frontage to the north and south of 800
feet and to the east and west Of 4G0 feet,
covering and inclosing space of over three
acres. Without going further into detail,
it may be observed that Il e floor of the sur
face oi these several buildings is 81 40
square feet, or about seven acres; and in
the several different departments of the fac
tory the firm have kept us many as 900
employees at work. The season Just closed
| has been good one. and no less than %.
900 machines have been sold. These ma
chimes have been disposed of in all tie
great wheat-growing States in the Union,
from scaboard 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 3
! 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 1000 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 he inter
! estlLg to note, as an item Of news, that the
! firm have very extensive trade with Grea;
| Britain and the European countries gcner-
| ally, as well as with Australia, New Zea.
! land, South America, ana South Afric;
1t will give some idea Of the popularity oi
! the Mccormick machines abroad AS We'll as
! at home TO say that one years shipment to
New Zealand filed ll6 freight cars-the
largest single shipment of agricultural i'm
! plements, we vclure to say, ever made al
one time on single order from any eStab'
| liShment in the world.
| MIR. Mccormick in the Worlds Fair al
! London, in 1851, made an impression which
! has not been erased, which gave Europe al
/ idea of the characteristic Quality-origi
nAlity-of our inventors. From that date
| to the Paris Exposition OF 1873, be has tax
| en- the first prize at every one Of the worlds
fairs. 1t has been shown above that to MIR
| Mccormick was awarded at the recent Par
| is Exposition the highest honorS ever given
an inventor, ard in the recent severe trial
! for the golden medal of the Royal Agricul
| tural Society of England, rs usual the Nc
i Cormick machine came out ahead and was
awarded the gold medal for it fulfilled the
! conditions laid down.
| The Mark Lane Express, of Aug. IL, 1879
| gives the following very interesting and
| ably written account oil the McCormick
| Binder:
1T cuts q 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 psrpehdicuarly, between endless
webs, to q height of nearly five feet, thus
rising over the nam 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
ces toward the falling grain, strikes down
ward through it, separatinga a portion for q
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 8
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 ey
ceed the smoothness and unerrng perfec
ton OF this arrangement for binding.
The shcaves are dropped with the creates
regularity, lying in line, longitudinally, OF
in the direction of the machines course
with the butt ends foremost, and they are
some feet clear of the horse track T'hI
wire band is joined by twist in two
places on opposite sides Of the sheaf, leav
ing the twisted ends sticking out for abou
a couple of inches The special merit OF
the work was in its perfect collection Of a !
! the wheat, scarcely an car being dropped
thus absolutely the whole of the crop il
bound in the sheaves, leaving nothing a
all to be raked up, and perhaps not more
! f,l e., wi.