Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-11-11
WORLDS FAIR TROPHIES.

The Mccormick Harvesting Machine Com
pany Awarded Seven Medals and Diplo-
mas for tho Superior Excellence OF Their |
Binders and Mowers.
CHICAGO Oct. Oath.
At the Worlds Columbian Exposition to-
day seeen medals and seven diplomas were
awarded the Mccormick Harvesting Machine
Company of this city. These honors are In
recognition of the merit of the following
named machines manufactured by the Nc
Cormick Company: The Machine of Steel,
Bindlochine, Open Elevator, Mccormick
Simple Knotter, No. Steel Mower, Big 4
Steel Mower and the Corn Harvester. These,
the highest awards, are based on the per-
formance of the Mccormick machines be-
fore the judges In the field, at the regular
field trials of the Exposition, held at Wayne,
H., in July last, the machines tested being
those regularly built for the general trade.
1t is significant fact that of all the manu-
facturers OF harvesting machinery having
exhibits at tho Worlds Fair, the McCor-
mick Company alone complied with the
committees request to show the capabilities
of their machines in the field. The first
successful reaper was invented by Cyrus
Hall Mccormick in 1881, and from that time
to this the Mccormick machines have had
decided prestige over all Others They have
won the grand gold medals and highest
awards at every Worlds Fair, and it was
possibly for this reason that sixteen differ
ent manufacturers of Binders and Mowers
did not compete in the field with them.
Throughout the entire season these sixteen
| concerns, in their efforts to have floor
| award granted, have done everything possi-
BILE to battle the Commission ancl prevent q
| fair open field exhibit that should test the
working qualities of the machines. And
| now, after four months fight by the
makers of harvesting machines who did not
| dare meet Mccormick in the ield-a fight
| in which the United States Commission
voted at every turn that the ouy way to ex-
anime machine was by seeing it at work in
| the iied--and after having signed an agree
ment with all the others not to show in the
field, one concern wanted an award so bad
ly that only two weeks ago 1t went so far as
to get q secret permit to pay the expenses
| of a new Committee to secretly accompany
| their special machines to remote section
| of Colorado, where no other machines could
be shown, and where the crop (if there is
any left must be much lighter, and the
surface Of the ground firmer, with the evi
dent hope that these conditions would insure
as easy work and as light draft as were
shown by the regular Mccormick machines
in the official tests in July, in the very heavy
|
ed the Mccormick machines speak in high
est terms of their efficiency, ease of hand
ling and extreme light draft. The McCor
mick No. 4 Mower showed wonderful power
at work, and q IT. cut machine, in fielC
averaging three tons to the acre, with {
dynamometer perfectly adjusted by the U
| S. Custodian of Government Weights ant
Measures, drew at work, at an average
draft of 152 lbs. The judges pronounce thi
o remarkable performance. The McCormicl
Binders, cutting it. of heavy oats on up
hill ground, and carrying bundle carriers
measured by the same standardized dyna
mometer, showed draft as low as 800 lbs.
and none higher than 800 lbs. This wonder
full showing was great revelation to man.
distinguished foreigners at the trial, and n
one present was at loss to know why NOR
machines did not take part in the tests.
ORAToR-"Where else will you find in on
spot such products as marble, iron, clay
chalk, copper, lead, slate, glucose, fruits o
all kinds, hemp, flax, and all manner Q
grainsar Man in Audience-"1n my boy
pocket"-Waif. -,
DIR. Hozsies Certain Group Cure
Sent postpaid with beautiful souvenir spoon
Send SOC to A. P. HoxsIE, Buffalo, N. Y.
THE man who works the hardest for tn
least pay is the one who has the bigges
fortune.-Ram's Horn.
"WELL Willie, did you master your les
son to-dayl" "No'm; missed it,"
IT isn't every one who can mako gam
man quail.