Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-20
A BOON TO FARMERS.

II OVVV ~ a4NM0ANNs
Invention Of q Corn Husker by an Austin
Mau-Activlty In Manufacturing Circles.
Austin. Special to Pioneer Press.
March 15. Austin has something new
under the sun. One of its bright invent
ors, after months of experiment, has per-
fected successful corn husker. We all
know what q revolution in our method
Of agriculture, the self binder and steam
thresher and the improved mower and
the patent hay rake have made. But the
farmer has been compelled. after harvest
ing by machinery all his other crops, to
go into his cornfelds and oftentimes in
the bleak winds of the late fall patiently
and laboriously pick and husk his corn
by hand. All this toll IS now thing Of
the past, thanks to the ingenuity Of Aus
tin genius. Here Is a steel corn husker,
drawn by team, that goes into the corn
fields bending with the golden harvest,
and unalded, picks and husks the corn
at the rate of eight to twelve acres day,
according to the capacity of the team.
The machine IS not unlike a harvester.
The team and machine move astride the
row, one horse on each side, and every
thing in the shape of corn, large or small
ears, down or up. high or low, is picked
up and saved. 1t gathers every thing to
three inches of the ground. It will work
as effectively upon the mammoth crops
of Illinois and Nebraska as upon the dwarf
corn of northern Michigan The news
of this invention will be hailed with graft
tude in all corn-raising sections. Corn
husking will be done just as threshing IS
now, lasting but few days. Alongside
of the corn husker is arranged an eleva-
tor, and the farmers wagon following
the machine receives the golden ears as
fast as husked all ready to be binned.
The machine gathers all the crop and
does clean job of husking. So much
for one Austin invention. Several hund-
red of them will be manufactured for
next falls use.
The Austin Pressed Brick company is
making active preparations for this sea-
sons work. The experiments of last sea-
son were so satisfactory that the daily
capacity will be Immediately increased
from 10000 to 10000 fine bricks. New
presses, new engines, new reducers and
other machinery are gong in. An ad
dition will be made to the present line of
production by the manufacture of orna-
mental brick.
The cxtent of the Incl ease of our dairy
interests may be judged in part by the
fact that two new creameries have been
started in this county this spring. At
Rose Creek cooperative creamery has
erected ice houses and factory buildings
and will soon have SIX route wagons
gathering cream. At Taopi the Kansas
City railroad has furnished necessary
ground and hauled free the lumber and
material for large creamery. The build
1ngs have just been completed. Two or
three others are contemplated in other
parts Of the county.
The Austin Canning and Preserving
company sold car load of their premium
canned corn this week. During the pres
ent season canned goods manufacturers
everywhere haye complained of slow
sales, but the Austin goods are in steady
demand and at the top of the market.
P. G. Sullivan sold twenty car loads of
his standard Austin brick to Mason City
contractors this week.
Wisconsin parties along the line of the
Lake Superior & Southwestern railway
to be built through Rochester and Aus
tin to the Southwest the present season
have been in the city this week making
purchases of real estate here. They have
caught on IN good time.