The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-02-01
THE
MUM for Farm Machinery
A NOTABLE EXHIBIT.
THE PLACE THAT INTER
ESTS THE FARMERS.
The Largest Display of Mowers,
Reapers, Rakes, PlOWs, Etc
by Gregg s. Co., Of Tru-
mansburg, New York.
From the Atlanta GA, Pos,.l

hibiting their goods under their tent,
and located above and to the right Of
the Art Hall. This collection embraced
every implement of any importance re-
auired on a plantation, from the pillow
of seed-time to the reaper of the harvest
season.
The planter could here find every
thing needed for the. most improved
and advanced method ofcultivating tie
soil We live in an age of progress, in
an age noted for the invention of labor
saving machines.
The present rapid and perfect manner
Of manufacturing cotton goods was
strikingly contrasted with the past tardy
and imperfect process. the customs of
the people and the growth of the coun-
try demanded new and improved ma
chinery, and necessity became the
mother of invention. The same de-
mand and the same law of progress is
observed in the improved methods of
agriculture as has been noted in manu-
featuring interests. For instance, an
one man, can in one day accomplish
more work than fifteen or twenty men
could in a much longer time.
To Messrs- Gregg & Co., probably,
more than to any other firm, is due the
credit of improved agricultural machin-
cry. The excellence of THAR imple-
ments is determined by the esteem in
which hey are held by the farming pub
lie, a fact evilced by immense sales
everywhere. We cannot refrain from
making special mention of some o: this
improved agricultural machinery, and
first comes the Meadow King Mower"
This implement is undoubtedly one of
the most perfect harvesting manchines
ever invented. One of the most promi- |
ncnt features of this machine is its |
durability. With the exception of the /
tongue, it is constructed. entirely of metal,
the best and most thoroughly refined
being used. The best and simplest /
~ stem of gearing, the axle system, is
accepted, and the ingenious cOntrivances
attached cause the most correct mechan-
ical principles to be developed. The
machine has as complete and useful a
cult 'ng apparatus as we have ever seen,
and the knives are so arranged as to
render them independent of the drive
wheels and allowing the latter to fol-
low a rough surface regardless of the
position of the motive power. The
hinge of the machine, different from all
other inventions, is around the pi:man
shaft. thus allowing the bar to be elevat-
ed or depressed without altering the
line Of the knife and pitman in the
slightest degree. The cutting apparatus,
being in front, in full view of the driver,
and by elevating the bar, as may be
done with ease, the mower can be driven
in close proximity to trees without in
terfering with the gear.
The next machine is the Osborn Plow
Sulky. 1t is
APERFECT FLOWING MACHINE.
While not difficult IN principle from
the original, yet perfect in detail, sim
pliiied and strengthened.
Any right hand pillow can be used.
It will pillow as close 10 n fence, post or
stump as can be done by hand. Stone
no obstacle in fact it is N stony and
hard land that its advantages are most
apparent, the principle upon which the
pillow is hung being calculated to force
it into the ground, however hard. The
pillow is handled by the driver from his
scat by a simple system of levers enabl-
ing him to control its operation with
absolute certainty.
The vibrating frame to which is at
tached the plow is pivoted to the axle,
aud l. SO arranged as to be frictionless.
The axle itself is adjustable, and can be
raised, lowered ortipped 10 either direc-
ton at win, throwing the pillow on the
mouldboard or Landslide, precisely as is
done by hand, enabling the driver to
regulate the deDth and width OF the
furrow almost Instantly. This is the
only machine which permits these mo-
tions, and without these no pillow
sulky can succeed in dol. anything {
ike good work.
or course. as it is new departure
from the old established order of things,
where men worked from daylight until !
DARK. killing their horses and wearing
themselves out while yet in their prime,
Il has met many objections from this
lass OF self-kiners, who neither pity /,
themselves or their teams, many calling $
il "a lazy mans pow" etc., etc. This '
is too ludicrous 70 deserve Sc I
rious consideration The Threshing 9
Machine, Reaper, Mower, and Drill all :
save labor and time, and are, like the y
Osborn Pillow suIky. tabor sauing ma @
hines.
This machine is not a new and I'M ?
ried machine, having been manufae- /,
ured for the last eight years, as the 4
lattering testimonials published will !,
,rove. =
The Belfast CMe.) Journal, speaking q
Il this pillow, says: "The recent in =
yentions in agricultural Implements are 1
aking the poetry all out of the occu- I
,ation of farming. Here is Fred. At Z
wood advertising the Osborn Plew
sulky, by which the agriculturist sits
comfortably on cushion, and turns up
he soil as though he was on a pleasant v
rive. Poor Richard said that 8
s'He who by the pillow would thrive, a
Himself must either hold or drive, "
Iut here is an invention by aid OF which !
man may double his thrift by doing = =
'o,h-which shows how far we are in :
dvance nf Ben Fmnklin's time. No =
more does the plcwman, like the one In 9
rays EIegy, 'homeward plod his I
veary way"-but at supper time just :
cts ON and rides to his evening repast." q