Daily globe., 1882-09-11
machines, manufactured at Hoosac Falls

machines, manufactured at HOOSac Falls
Y.
This company presents the most success
full and remarkable record of any factory
In the United States. In 1853 their first
years work showed as manufactured and
sold 800 machines; 1882 shows the in
credible number of 44,226, and a grand
total from beginning to end of 100000.
While tEey have in the same time made
more machines than any other factory in
the world, their sale Of repairs has been less.
To Walter A. Wood belongs the credit of
being the pioneer, in the production Of
perfect wire and twine binder. In all
classes of their machines this company
are i'll the front rank. Their exhibition of
binders, reapers and mowers in Robertson
Bros display was III every way creditable.
KNowLToN MOWER.
This light running and excellent mower
is kept by the firm of Robertson Bros, and
was on exhibition during the entire fair.
Of other tools and machinery handled by
them, the Knowlton Cultivator, Belle City
Feed Cutter, the Winona Rushford Wagon,
Morrison d Skinner walking and riding
plows. the McSherry seeder and the Abbott
buggy, form the principal articles IN the
list, while of smaller tools, their sssort-
ment is complete. Their exhibit on the
ground, was, as has been stated the largest,
most varied and complete of any, and
attracted everybody. The Belle City Feed
Cutter, manufactured at Racine, Wis, one
of the best cutters ever made, was sur
rounded by crowd each day. 1t is per-
feet and will cut hickory hooppoles into
fuel. The large balance wheel, four feet
in diameter, gives very strong and steady
motion. The display Of plows, walking
and sulky, and of corn planters was by all
odds the best and most complete ever
made at state fair.
The firm of Robertson Bros. have been
in business in Rochester for nine years,
and are thoroughly known to people in
that vicinity and SO long as they continue
to handle their present well known line of
goods their trade must of necessity grow
and increase year by year.
In the east wing of the Floral Hall no
more attractive spot could be found during
the fair than the exquisite display Of the
above named firm, Milliners and Ladies'
Furnishing Goods dealers. Hither were
the ladies drawn as if it combined all that
was worth seeing about the fair, and ii
would have made the husbands and fathers
groan to see them admire each dainty
article in the rich and varied display
1t certainly was perfect bower of beauty
rich and elegant, to a degree not apprecia-
ted unless seen. Silk canopy and lace
draperies enclosed their space, while the
| back ground was hung with the richest vel
vets, silks and plushes. The firm are the
largest importers in all Southern Mime
sofa, and among other articles exhibit Paris
hats and bonnets, just received, ostrich
bird of paradise and pheasants' plume:
and feathers, ladies' cloaks and dolmans
silks and plushes, imported antique laces
French and oriental. Elegant fans at 50!
or more, gloves, handkerchiefs and ladies
wear of all kinds; Irish and Spanish laces
black and white, and all those little trifie
which make the ladies SO charming and il
resistible. AS remarked before, the exh hi
was rich, rare and varied, and well repre-
sents the contents of their store, No. 90
Broadway, Rochester, Minnesota.