The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-06-13
n Hint AS 10 AgrlcultnraI Emnlements.

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The value Of agricultural implements to a
country Ia which farming is carried on so extern
Biiveiy as In the United States cannot be over es-
timated. An exchange says: '"The era of ag-
ricultural machinery is not old. 1t begins first
with any solid meaning in 1850, yet what has it
wrought To-day farmer can more easily feed
one hundred men then his grandfather could,
with the old farm appliances, feed his household.
II is shown by the recent census that we have
three aud q half million agricultural ~laborere, in
a total of seventeen million workers Of all classes,
vet we export S28S, OO0, 0g0 worth Of bread-stuffs,
or more than three times the amount Of export
Der agricultural laborers ten years before. This
grand showing is the result of i~nventive iLgenu-
ity., An estimate CT the worlds wheat pro-
duction places it at the large total Of over two
billion bushels, Of which the United States fur
nishes nearly 400 millions, or as much as France
and Russia combined, and nearly as much as that
furnished by the combination of Spain, Italy,
Austria, Hungary, Great Britain, Canada, and
Turkey. 1t necessarily follows that there must
be a variety OF Harvesters and Binders used to
harvest this enormous wheat crop and the question
''Which rs the best to buy?'' is an important one.
The following is a copy of a letter written by
shatto. Bradford & Co. oil Aberdsen in Feb, 1884:
MmBANK, Dakota, Feb. I'd, 1884.
Messers, Geo. Esterly & Son, Whitewater, Wis.
The l0l Esterlys bought of you during the
season of 1888 and sold by us in Grant, Roberts
and Brown counties in this territory have gwen
uneoualed satisfaction, The Esterly was an en-
tire stranger in this part Of the territory, and IN
consequence of this fact every Binder sold by us
went cut on trial without heiug settled for, and
re are happy TO statethat not a single one was
t--~ato us, and svery farmer who bought one
was willing and ready to settle after the first
days trial, and this we think is conclusive evil
dence of the superiority of the Esterly Binder.
Our conidencein this machine was SO urbounded
that we" challenged one and all competitors of
the place to a field trial in very short bailey, and
the result after the trial was that we sold nine(9)
machines in the field, while the agent for the Nc
Gornick sold-one, and the Deering and Plano
(splendid Harvesters) were ruled out by the
judges. In a field trial at Webster, ID. T.. we
sold three CD machines in the field, and the other
eight competing machines were left in the cold.
In the field trial at Wilmot, D. IT,, we defeated
all competing machines and sold two Esterlys
in the field. In all our field trials we had no ex-
perts, our book-keeper taking care of the ma
chine.
We had two experts for ninety miles of terri
tory aud the 10l machines sold, but had little
use for them after the machines were started in
the field, Thirty-one of the machines we're NOT
seen any mare by experts or our men after they
left the warehouse, and in three cases the farm
ers who bought the machines set them up and
started them without assistance. In short, we
consider the Esterly the most perfect, the simplest
and most durshla harvesting machine, and the one
that causes the least trouble OF the whole Binder
tribe in the market, and are proud of the work
done by her and of the many friends she has
among the farmers. We shall again handle your
Binder the coming season, aid are confident that
she viii take the lead IL this section Of the
country. Respectfully yours,
sHArro, BRADFORD & Co.
IShatto, Bradford & Co. are now unidentified
with Cherry. Leach s. Cal