The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-09
waco.
OF tho Herald.

WACO, Juuel.
The work Of tho grain harvest Is now we'll
under way 10 tho neigborhood Of Waco.
Some part Of the crop on tho low lying
lands was destroyed by the late spring frost,
but seldom If ever has the quality Of tho grain
been better hereabou,s. 1t Is thought that the
average weld OF an acre of wheat will be be.
tween fifteen and twenty bushels while many
fields are TO be seen that will undoubtedly
Noduce twenty five bushels to the acre..
Without question the acreage sown Will be
largely increased this fall. Our farmers are
awakening to the fact that wheat at fifteen or
twenty bushels an acre sold at the
fair price which it will unquestionaely
bring after The increase in facilities fer snip
mont, will prove more profitable invests
ment of land and labor than cotton planning
This opinion gal greater strength ia view
of the wonderful ease and certainty with
which the self bi der enables the wheat
crop to be gathered.
Your correspondent, realizing their close
relation to the interests OF the farming cons
munity for years has been deeply interested
10 the progress of thoss wonderful, mscnlnes,,
lho automatic grain binders) For several
more or less successful use among our Texas
farmers, but it must be confessed, speaking
for the many farmers with whom have con-
yersed rs well rs for myself, that more or
less dissatisfaction has been felt with
them During the harvest season OF 1879
however, a grain binder was introduced that
Immediately took a strong hold on the imagl'
nation of oil who saw IT,
This machine was Irvine binding haryes,
ter made, think, by VIM. Deeripg, OF chi
cago, and called the Deerng twlne binder
1t was az improvement on any binder ever
seen in this state, not only in the fact OF
using Irvine instead of wire, but in making
the bundles of a uniform size, saving all the
grain, and requiring less watching and tlnk-
ering. =, u..
Last wear many of these were sold in this
neiohborbood and in the state, and gave go
far as L have been able to learn the liveliest
satisfaction. A rival twiue binder
appeared last year, made by Walter
A. Wood, the celebrated manufactures, but
its success seems to have been small, for no
one is Offering them for sale at Waco. and it
is understood that they have been Withdrawn
from the state, as farmer told your CORE
spondent that after sending to Austin,
Bolton ana other points, he WAS obliged to
send to ST. Louis for repairs and tW4he
adapted to the machine.
This year | have examined the Deering
machine very carefully, and find 1t greatly
improved in many re poets from the macblne
| of last year. 1t is handsomer in appearance,
stronger, more finely geared aid apparently
bette made, even than the 1850 machlne L
must not neglect to mention the new
machines introduced this season, which the
farmers welcome IS furnishing competition
in price In this Indispensable farm impie-
ment.
The Osborne Irvine Binder is made at
TROY. N. Y. 1t lis peculiar machine, beiug
| merely an attachment to the Osborne wire
binder, which has q very good reputation
here, and is given almost grstultously TO
purchaser of q wire binder. 1t appears that
il is not giving great satisfaction, being Path
er weak and liable to get out of order.
The Mccormick Irvine binder, made by the
reaper inventor. Virginian by birth, bave
sen nothing of, but as representative OF
the concern informs me that their first Irvine
binder was not made until April OF this year,
l conclude they will hardly venture to make
any considerable number for sale this harvest
In conversng with farmers find but one
opinion in regard to wheat. All agree
that Nicaragua wheat has never
yet failed to produce crop and that the yield
per acre will run anywhere from thirty to
Aty bushels. Yet little is sown because
there is no market for it. The mills will
not receve it because, forsooth, their ma
chnsry is not adapted TO it. Let them then
in the name of business common sense, put
in the necessary machinery, and rest as
sured that the return will be ample in the
quality and quantity of the -four produced.
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