The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16
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80 oovon medals and seven diplomas were
0V5Grded thoMcCormick Harvesting Machine
rAny Of this city. These honors are In
roco9nAt3oo Of tho merit OF the following
naAed machines manufactured by the MO
Corunick Company: The Machine OF Steel,
DGndAochine, Open Elevator. Mccormick
s0Imoio Knotter, No. & Steel Mower, Big
tAo highest awards, are based ON the per.
1oenanco Of the NcCormick machines be-
lore the judges I'm the field, at the regular
Sid trials Of the Exposition. held q Wayne.
sGh0oo regularly built for tho general trade.
Il h . significant fact that of all the manu-
1aGturers of harvesting machinery having
exhibits ut the Worlds Fair, the McCor-
mick Company alone complied with the
committees request to show the capabilities
Of their machines In the field. The first
Hall Mccormick in 1881, and from that time
60 this the Mccormick machines have had
decided prestige over ali others. They have
won the grand gold medals and highest
awards ut every Worlds Fair, and 1t was
possibly for this reason that sixteen differ
Snt manufacturers of Binders and Mowers
did not compete in the field with them.
ThrouRhout tho entire season these sixteen
award granted, have done everything posi-
BILE to bafae the Commission and prevent q
FAIR open Held exhibit that should test the
working qualities OF the machines. And
now. after four months fight by tho
makers Of harvesting machines who did not
dare meet Mccormick in the deld-a fight
in which the United States Commission
voted At every turn that the only way to ex-
anime . machine was by seeing it at work in
the ield-and after having signed an agree
ment with all the others not to show in the
Held, ono concern wanted an award SO bad
~ that only two weeks ago 1t went SO far a.
to get . secret permit to pay the expenses
OF new Committee to secretly accompany
their special machines to . remote section
of Colorado, where no other machines could
be shown, and whore the crop III there 10
any left must be much lighter, and the
surface Of the ground 6rmer, with the owl
dent hope that these conditions would insure
rs easy work and a. light druft were
shown by the regular Mccormick machises
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
1t work, and q It. cut machine, in a field
averaging three tons to the acre, with q
dynamometer perfectly adjusted by the U.
g. Custodian of Government Weights and
Measures, drew at work, at average
draft of $50 lbs. The judges pronounce this
. remarkable performance. The Mccormick
Binders, cutting #. OF heavy oats on up
hill ground, and carrying bundle carriers,
measured by the same standardized dyna-
mometer, showed q draft as low 800 lbs,
and none higher than 800 lbs. This wonder
full showing was great revelation to many
distinguished foreigners at the trial, and no
one present was at O loss to know why more
machines did not take part in the tests.