The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-07

his own opinion, must be an object
of wonder. Imagine somethin grunning
our streets without brains. One
week he is General Agent" next
Buckeye" next English Dog"
next the ''moon." Assuming what.
ever title he may, the one great
fact remains unchanged, that he has
no brains. How can one so mighty
condescend to notice "Understrap-
pers," "little dogs l see you are
the same man who in January last
wrote a letter to ID. M. Osborne &
Co., recommending their last years
Binder aud condemning what is
known as the "Appleby' patent, for
which your Company have since
paid $4,000 for a shop right for
three yeats. Showing c~onclusively
that your lack of brains is of no new
occurrence. You boast of selling so
many machines in this county. Now
you want US to make another "claim."
We will make another that is, that if
we have not sold more Mccormick
Binders in this county this season,
than you have Buckeye Binders we
will give any farmer one. Now
Smarty, l suppose you have thought
we were dead the past few weeks,
while boy-like you have been blow
ing about what you have done eve
were not dead only sleeping"
l thank Bryan for calleng the
attention of the farmers to the fact
that the Mccormick Co., are ever
ready to add such improvements to
their machines as they find necessary
regardless of cost. He says "we are
changing the cutter bar TO our
binder" that is false. We use the
same bar with improvements that we
have used for IS years, long before
this brainless object of wonder was
known wen in the stump counties
where he has recently been heard OF.
Last year we put out a reel that
worked or the same principal of the
n the Buckeye Company use this
year, and it was a failure. McCor-
mick changed every one at an ex-
pease of thousands of dollars to the
Company, did not cost the farmers
anything. Well your Company are
quite good making changes for they
have changed their whole machine
every year and have photographs Of
the one they change for next year.
You claim you have sold the Agri-
cultural College farm a binder, what
does that amount to Simply moth
ing. l once knew a Professor of
an Agricultural College to go into
the woods after some nice maple
trees for shade around his yard-he
got what he supposed were maple
trees-and set them out, watered and
cared for them and supposed they were
maple, until a farmer who had had
experience and knew all about trees
came along and told the Professor
his trees were nothing but 6assyOOd.
Perhaps the managers of u State
Farm will find they have only a"bass-
wood" binder. Shiawassee county
farmers do not buy self-binders be-
cause some one who knows nothing
about binders claim they have the
best.
In our humble position as "Under-
strapper" We have been thanked by
the farmers many times and in some
cases offered a reward for exposing
the trickery of men who boast they
"can sell farmers anything" To-
day you are branded by the public as
dangerous men to do business with.
Men who will do anything to get
your order. Sell anything because
yen a by ii cheap. Talk one
thing and write, and write another.
Stoop to the most contemplate
and ungentlemanly means to accom-
plish your end Alas! Alas, be
assured your sins will find you out.
A gentleman who had read
some of your trash, said to me
to-day that it looked to him just as
if you replied to our articles just so
you could say you had said the last
word for there was no sense to what
you said, and beneath the notice of
even an Understrapper. will say
if such is your object, you will be
obliged to import some brains, for
we will continue to reply and ex-
pose your receptions SO long as you
give us a chance and as long as
farmers meet us on every hand and
thank us for the good we are doing.
In behalf Of the Mccormick Har-
vesting Machine Co. I thank you for
your liberal patronage and your
assurance that you will stand by us
because we are in the right. Until