Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-02
TEN DA VS. 1T THE FAIR.
CONTINUED

This week we are to go into the an
mex portion of the great Agricultural
Building and spend the time among
the agricultural machinery APP
preaching as we did on one or two
days, we will stop moment and ex-
anime the windmills that are set up
out of doors. Here are score or
more of these lofty things set upon
towers Or on pyramidal iron frames,
their long arms and broad fan wheels
overlapping the frames below and
making strange sight on that part
of the grounds. Some of them are in
motion and are operating pumps and
other machinery. The windmill is an
important thing to the prairie farmer
and the thing is more frequent than
the old we'll pole used to be in Yer
mont. A great area Of space is given
to machinery for the farm in the an
mex, and here as elsewhere the ex-
hibiter has done the most possible to
make his exhibits and the fence rail
or pavilion arrangement, which sur
rounds them, SO attractive as to
arrest the VISITORS attention. The
machinery itself, no matter what the
character of the machine is, has been
made beautiful in form of construc-
ton, in fermentation with paint and
with silver or nickle plating. We no
tice that since the Philadelphia exhi-
bition there has been a great change
in the make Of machinery. 1t is
lighter than it was then; steel has
taken the place of iron; wood frame
work has been superseded by steel
and there seems to have been much
Improvement made in dispensing with
weight and clumsiness, while strength
has been retained. The light, strong,
we'll shaped pillow is made almost en-
tirely of steel; the sulky pillow for the
western farmer seems to have taken
the place of the old, heavy, clumsy
thing OF the past. The writer remem-
bers to have seen the prairie farmers
with their teams of four to six yokes
of oxen drawing pillow that the plow-
man never thought of lifting from
the ground, or Of attempting to
hold it any more than a mar would
attempt to lift or to guide with his
hand loaded cart or wagon. These
primitive plows, some of which were
to be seen,to show the improvements
made in plows, have been superseded
by the light sulky, with steel mold
boards and cutters as sharp as knives
aud aseat on which the driver can
ride with the grace of a charioteer.
The variety of plows is almost num-
berless. Moving and harvesting ma
cfiinery covers great area. Many
leading manufactures have their ex-
hibits here. Some of the machines
are in operation, or rather in motion,
so that the operations can be seen, land
we doubt not they have ere this been
tested by actual field work. We no
ticed among the exhibits of mowers,
reapers, ETC., a section fenced off for
the use of leading manufacturer in
a novel manner. His whole depart
ment was enclosed by picket fence,
all the pickets of which were what is
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the guards are set peaked end up
wards and attached to the upper rail
of the fence, itself part OF the ma
chine, while the whole fence, and
some of the standing work inside was
covered with moving machine sec
tions-cutting knives. All pieces and
parts of the machines were seen set
in some way to help the ornamental
part of the exhibit, while the entire
machine could be seen as it is put up
for business.
Some of the grain harvesting ma
chimes, which cut, bind, thresh and
put into bags, ready to be hauled out
of the field, are seen, while every here
and there are farm engines which are
made to move on the highways or in
the fields, like a locomotive, doing
blowing, threshing, and other kinds
of work. These machines are being
simplified, lightened and adapted to
many uses and are coming more and
more into use in those sections where
farming is done on the thousand acre
plan. The ordinary reaper is seen in
many places and machines of various
construction are set up. There are
horse rakes and horse forks, machines
for loading and unloading grain and
hay; machines for road making, ditch
digging; machines for doing all sorts
of planting and one or more for trans
planting. Machines for cutting hay,
roots, stalks, etc; farm machines for
grinding grain, bone, plaster, and the
like; Kemp's manure spreader IS
there; machines for sowing and drill