The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-11-09
WORLDS FAIR TROPHIES.

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The Mccormick fIprvcstine Machine Com.
pany Awarded Seven Medals and inpio-
mas for the Superior Excellence of rhels
Binders and Mowers.
CHICAGO, Oct. Gath.
At the Worlds Columbian Exposition to-
day seven medals and seven diplomas werc
awarded the Mccormick Harvesting Machine
Company of this city. These honors are in
recognition of tho mort of the following
named machines manufactured by tho Mo.
Cormick Company! The Machine OF Steel,
Bindiochine, Open Elevator, Mccormick
Simple knotter, No. a Steel Mower, Big 4
Steel Mower and the Corn Harvester, These,
the highest awards, arc based on the per.
formance of the Mccormick machines be.
fore the judges In tho field, at the regula
field trials OF the Exposition, held at Wayne,
ILL.,, In July last, the machines tested being
those regularly built for The general trade.
1t is a significant fact that of all the manu-.
facturers OF harvesting machinery having
exhibits at the Worlds Fair, the McCor.
mick Company alone complied with the
committees request to show the capabilities
OF tier machines In the aeld, The first
successful reaper was Invented by Cyrus
Hall Mccormick In 1881, and from that time
TO this tho Mccormick machines have had a
decided prestige over all others. They have
won tho 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 Mowers
did not compcto in the field with item.
Throughout the entire seaRaa these sixteen
concerns, in thcir eiT0rls to have a floor
award granted, have done everything posi-
BILE TO bafic the Commission and prevent o
fair opou field exhibit that should test tn,
working qualities Of the machines. And
now, after a four months fight by the
makers of harvesting machines who dEd not
dare meet Mccormick in tho Heid-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 sho,v ii the
field, one concern wanted an ayvAft so bad.
iythat only two weeks aau 4 went so far "a
to get a secret permit IT, pay the expenses
OF a new Commute to secretly accompany
their special machines to a remote section
OF Colorato, where no other machines could
DC sho''n, and where tho crop III 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 aud as light draft n. were
shown by the regular Mccormick machines
IN the official tests in IulS, In the very heavy
grain then harvested. The diplomas award
ed the Mccormick machines speak Ia high
est terms Of their efficiency, ease Of hand
ling and extreme light drafh The McCor-
mick No, 4 Mower showed wonderful power
at work, and a B II. cut machine, in n field
averaging three tons to the ncrc, with a
dynamotueter perfectly adjusted by the U.
IS. Custodian of Government Weights and
Measures, drew Mt work, at an average
lrn Ft 1T IA tbs Tho i,,1.,, 80, MI.
a remarkable performance. The Mccormick
Binders, cutting G #. of heavy oats on up
hill ground, amt carrying bundle carriers,
measured by the SANE standardized dyna-
mometcr, showed n draft as low rs 32O lbs,
and none higher than 800 lbs. This wonder
full showing was Il great revelation to many
distinguished foreigners at the trial, and no
one present was at n loss to know why more
machines did not take part in the tests.