The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-11-10
WORLDS FAIR TROPHIES.
The Mccormick Harvesting Machine Com
pany Awarded Seven Medals and Diplo-
mas for the Superior Excellence of Their
Binders and Mowers.
CHICAGO, Oct. oath

CHICAGO, Oct. oath.
At the Worlds Columbian Exposition to
day seven 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 the Worlds Fair, the Meteor
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 1t was
possibly for this reason that sixteen differ
ent manufacturers of Binders and flowers
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 posi-
bic to battle the Commission and prevent
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 field-a fight
in which the United States Commission
voted at every turn that the only way to ex-
anime a machine was by seeing it at WORK in
the field--and after having signed an agree
ment with all the others not to show In the
field, one concern wanted an award so bad
" that only two weeks ago 1t went so far az
to get a secret permit to pay the expenses
of a new Committee to secretly accompany
their special machines to q remote section
of Colorado where no other machines could
be shown, and where the crop Gf there is
any left must be much lighter, and the
surface of the ground firmer, with the evil
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
grain then harvested. The diplomas award
ed the Mccormick machines speak IN high
est terms of their efficiency, ease of hand
ling and extreme light draft. The McCOr-
mick No Mower showed wonderful power
at work, and a D it. cut machine, IN field
averaging three tons to the acre, with
dynamometer perfectly adjusted by the U.
S. Custodian of Government Weights and
Measures, drew at work, at an average
draft of 152 lbs. The judges pronounce this
remarkable performance. The Mccormick
Binders, cutting g fl. of heavy oats on up
hill ground, and carrying bundle carriers,
measured by the same standardized dyna-
mometer, showed draft as low as $40 lbs,
and none higher than $50 lbs. This wonder
| full showing was great revelation to many
distinguished foreigners at the trial, and no
one present was at a loss to know why more
machines did not take part in the tests.