Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-11-03
HISTORIC AMERICAN TRIUMPH.
Notable Visit of the Foreign Worlds Fair
Commissioners TO North Dakota to View
Harvesting Maci's-ry at Work.


Notable Visit OF the Foreign Worlds Fail
Commissioners TO North Dakota to View
Harvesting Macbis-ry at Work.
Forty-hve Deerlng Irvine Binders, form
ing a procession half mile in length, and
steudily moving through \ waving sea OF
wheat-such was the sight that greeted the
Foreign Commissioners to the Worlds Fair
during their recent famous visit 10 the DO.
nanza farms OF North Dakota This impos
ing spectacle was witne sed on the great Eth
Valley farm at Laririiore, North Dakota, a
farm comprising l2,000 acres or nearly Is
square miles, 10000 acres OF which formed
one unbroken fcncelesS field Of wheat 10
witness this sight the distinguished spec.
tators, comprising fifty foreign diplomats,
Worlds Fair Commissioners aud represen.
tatives OF the foreign press, together with
an equal number OF Americans, eminent in
Worlds Fair, Railroad and Commercial cir
cles, had undertaken the discomforts of q
thousand mill journey from Chicago and
the EXPLANATIONS of delight and surprise,
and the cries of "bravo' that rang out on
the air showed that their expectations were
vastly more than realized. Sent here TO
study all things American, these gentle
| men had been especially DESTROYS Of witness
| Ing the methods in vogue on the much
| talked-of "bonanzan wheat farms. Four
| days before they had left Chicago as guests
| of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail
| road along whose route from ChiySgo to St,
| Paul they had received one continuous o--a.
| tion. From St Paul through Minnesota and
| North Dakota they Travelled as guests of tho
| Great Northern Railroad, and the farther
north they Travelled the warmer and more
cordial was their reception Here at Lari.
| more they found the climax of interest and
the height OF hospitality. They we're met
ut their train and DRIED to carriages by
| what seemed TO b: The whole population Of
| the little city OF Larim0rp, beaded by o h.
| Phillips, the Mayor, Gov. Shortrdge, and
N. G. Larimore, the proprietor OF the
great farm which they were to see,
| Silently and almost lreathiessly at first
| they viewed the mi ~ phalaux of ma.
chimes; then quickly lighting from their
| conveyances they follt wed the machines on
foot, eagerly peering into their mechanism
as IL bent on firding the secret of their per-
feet, automatic, almost noiseIess action.
| F0r an hour or more they followed the
machines, asking ihnumerable questions OF
Mr.. Larimore and his sons, when they were
called'to one side of the field where scien-
tic tests OF draf, were being made under
the supervision of Mayor o. H. Phillips and
Mr.. G. Fl. Oimstead. The machines tested
the Deering Pony binder and the Dcering
embodying the ball nd roller bearings,
such as are used in icycles and bicycle
| sulkles. Twelve tests we're made on each
machine with registered Osterheld &
Eickmeyer dynamo met T., each representing
the draft involved in cutting a ak foot
swath, 100 feet in length, in twenty tC
twenty-five seconds of lime. The six cut
ting tests of the binder showed an avera ge
Of only 298 pounds of draft The six tests
| N xyhiPh tho m inn ,,,.,c ,,iin m,
the tops of the stubbe just cut, known as
the rolling draft test, showed AN average
draft OF only 201 pounds. The Deerinp
Ideal mower, a new machine also fitted witt
the bicycle behring's, in heavy grass slowed
cutting draft averaging 126 pounds. ant
the rolling draft ninely-two pounds. The
remarkably low draft-about half the draf
Of ordinary machines-s shown by these fig
ures for both machines yeis carefully noted
by the astonished visitors as demonstrating
the practicabity of tie bicycle bearings
The same Pony binder, drawn by two ligh
mules, cut an acre Of wheat in twenty tw,
and half minutes.
PAPER TwINE Used.
A notable feature OF the binder test wa
the use on the Pony binoer Of the DeerinI
paper" Irvine, made from wood fibre
This Irvine, patented by William Deerlng 4
Co., bids fair to prove Waterloo to tn
Irvine trust, for it can be made and sold a
prices considerably below those now pait
for the hemp and sisal fibres.
At the close of these tests the commits
sioners, together with party of Spectators
were rendered good, substantial, prairi
chicken dinner by Mrs. Larimol and he
teighbors Toasts followed. Gov Short
ridge, Mayor Phillips nd Rev. }. H Keele
delivered eloquent addresses OF welcome
which were responded TO by D. NJ De Pei
alta, of Costa Rica; Mr.. A Grneysky, tn
assistant Russian commissioner; Don A
belt Gomez Ruano of Uruguay Mr.. Hal
~ Vincent. of Costa RIGA, and Judge A.
water. of Minneapolis, Mr. Lariniore ais
9 spoke He said that by using the hes
Z methods and machinery he had reduced tn
cost of raising and m rketing wheat to b'
! tween "A 50 and 5 90 an acre,
MR.. APPLEBY SURPRISES THR COMMISSIONERS
Mr. John F. Appleby, the inventor c
) the Appleby Irvine binder, whose pre-
r ence was surprise to The commissioner:
4 told OF the history of his early struggle
and the final universal adoption of his il
: vention. He paid 6 glowing tribute to M
J, William Deering, to whose enterprise i
Y said the world was indebted for the init
I duction and general adoption of the M
:. chine. Said he:
y I'm 1873, when the Dcering Company mao
Q seventy-five CT these binders, people smile
. knowingly and predicted failure. The nel
a iear when Mr.. Deering made 5000 OF the m
c chimes, the manu- acturers OF the old reaper az
The wire binder said lie was crazy II he ";
- crazy all the manufacturers OF harvesting m
Chinery who have been forced TO follow his e
ample have also become violently insal
llaughterl and the millions Of farmers wi
now use the invention are 1T candidates for
: lunahc asylum Laughter and applause
L The excursiouists left for Alton and Il
n great Dalrympie farms at p. M, whe
they witnessed threshing machines at wol
on crop of wheat that was cut from no
II acres by 1870 Deering bnders-a make tn
t is used exclusively by the Dalrympie
Il From Alton they journeyed TO Fargo, whe
. they were royalty received and shown Il
u marvellous result of western pack whi'
z in season OF hard times had built sol
J, city of brick and mortar on the bed of ash
q that had lain smoking there only nine
. days before. From Fargo, the guests /
:. turned TO Chicago brinful of enthusias
It over the wonders they had seen.