Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-14
HISTORIC AMERICAN TRIUMPH.
Notabl" Visit of the Foreign Worlds Fair
Commissioners to North Dakota to View
HarvestInE Machinery at Work.

Ing procession half mile in length, and |
steadily moving through a waving sea OF |
wheat-such vas the sight that greeted the |
Foreign Commissioners TO the Worlds Fair !
during their recent famous visit 10 the bo-
nnnza farms Of North Dakota. This impos-
ing spectacle was witnessed on the great Elk !
Valley farm at Larimore, North Dakota, a
farm comprising 1900 acres or nearly 10
square miles, 10000 acres OF which formed
one unbroken fcnceless field OF wheat. To
witness this sight the distinguished spec
tators, comprising fifty foreign diplomats,
Worlds Fair Commissioners and represen-
tatlves of the foreign press, together with
m equal number Of Americans, eminent in
World's Fair, Railroad and Commercial cir
ces, had undertaken the dscomforts of
thousand mill journey from Chicago; and
the eXclamutions Of delight and surprise,
and the cries Of "bravon 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 desirous Of witness
ing the methods in vogue on the much
tallSed-ot "bonanza" wheat farms. Four
days before they had left Chicago as guests
OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail
road, along whose route from Chicago to st.
Paul they had recei ed one continuous ova-
tion. From ST. Paul through Minnesota and
North Dakota they travelled as guests of the
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 were met
ut their train and escorted to carriages by
what seemed to be the whole population. OF
the little city Of Larimore, headed by o II.
Phillips, the Mayor, Gov. Shortridge, and
N G. Larimore, the proprietor Of tile
great farm which they were to see-.
Silently and almost breathlessly at first
they viewed the mighty phalanX of ma
chimes; then quickly alighting from their
conveyances they followed the machines on
fNNf rlWv sN,N
as IL bent on finding the secret of their per-
feet, automatic, almost noiseless action.
FOR an hour or more they followed tho
machines, asking innumerable questions OF
Mr.. Larimore and his sons, when they were
called to one side of the field where scien-
tific tests of draft were being made under
the supervision of Mayor o. H Phillips and
Mr.. e. ii. Oimstead. Tho machines tested
the Deering Pony binder and the Deering
Ideal mower-were remarkable because
embodying the ball and roller bearings,
such as are used in bicycles and bicycle
| sulkes. Twelve tests were made on each
machine with a registered Osterheld e.
| Eickmeyer dynamometnr, each representing
| the draft involved in cutting a six-foot
swath, 100 feet In length, in twenty to
| twenty-five seconds of time. The six cut
| ting tests of the binder showed an average
of only 29S pounds of draft. The six tests
| IN which the machine was run IN gear ever
| the tops OF the stubble Just cut, known as
| the trolling draft test, showed an average
| OraIL Oh only SUI pounds. Inc DeerlnR
| Ideal mower, a new machine also fitted with
| the bicycle bearings, in heavy grass showed
| a cutting draft averaging 1876 pounds, and
| the rolling draft nineJy-two pounds. The
| remarkably low draft-abouu half the draft
! of ordinary machines-shown by these fig
| ures for both machines was carefully noted
| by the astonished visitors as demonstrating
| the practicability of the bicycle bearings.
| The same Pony binder, drawn by two light
mules, cut an acre Of wheat in twenty two
| and half minutes.
I,..... rwINE USED.
A notable feature OF the binder test was
the use on the Pony binder of the Deeriug
| paper" twine, made from wood fibre
This twine, patented by William Deering GS
Co., bids fair to prove 4 Water-oo to the
twiue trust, for IL can be made and sold at
prices considerably below those Low paid
for the hemp ana sisal tibres. -
At the close of these tests the commits
siouers, together with party of spect ators,
were rendered a good, substantial. prairie
chicken dinner by Mrs. Larmore and her
Leighbors TOasts followed. Gov. Short
ridge, Mayor Phillips and Rev J. H.. Keeley
delivered eloquent addresses of welcome,
which were responded to by d. M.'De Per
alta, of Costa Rica; Mr.. A. Grineysky, the
assistant Russian commissioner; Don AL
bert Gomez Ruano of Uruguay; Mr.. Har-
ry Vincent, of Costa Rica, and Judge A.
water, of Minneapolis. Mr. LariI:ore also
spoke He said that by using the best
methods and machinery he had reduced the
cost of raising and marketing wheat to be-
tween S45 so and $500 an acre.
MR. APPLEBT SURPRISES THE COMMISSIONERS.
Mr.. John F. Appleby, the inventor of
the Appleby twine binder, wLose pres
ence was surprise to the commissioners;
told of the history of his early struggles
and the final universal adoption of his in
vention. He paid a glowing tribute to Mr..
William Deering, TO whose enterprise he
said the world was indebted for the into
duction and general adoption of the ma,
chine. Said he
IN 1879, when the Deering Company made
seventy-tiye of these binders, people smiled
knowingly and predicted failure. The next
) year when Mr. Deering made 5000 of the ma,
chimes, the manufacturers Of the old reaper and
tne wire 9inuer s@iu tI nc was 81 Sr1zy ne was
chinery who have been forced TO follow his eX.
ample have also become violently insane
llaughterl and the millions of farmers who
now use the invention 1T candidates for u
lunatc asylum Laughter and applausel
The excursonists left for Alton and the
great Dalrympie farms at p m, where
they witnessed threshing machines at work
on crop of wheat that was cut from a, ,00C
acres by 100 Deering binders--a make that
is used exclusively sby the Dalrympfcs
, From Alton they iourneyed TO Fargo, where
they were royally received and shown the
marvellous result of western piIck, whict
in a season of hard times had built SOLID
city of brick and mortar on the.oed of ashes
r that had lain smoking there only ninety
days before. From Fargo, the guests re
turned 10 Chicago brimful of enthusiasm
over tho wonders they had seen.
: WHEN domestic leaves an Intelligence
Office she is seldom permitted ID take away
? with her any perceptibIe amount of intelli
: gence.-Boston Transcript.
THE laundry girls of to-day think thei
lot hard one, but it was in the days o
Queen Elizabeth that they had a really rut
tine of it.-rroy Press.
LOVE is said to be blind, but it usual
d gets there ahead of the old man just tn
4 same.-GalvestOn News.
: If sit goes without saying,n why do pee
g pie persist in saying itt
1 BELONGS TIC, A PAST AGE
! H2 the great, gripping
Txt& nauseating pill.
3 SWfS4 In this enlightened
= SAN age you have DR.
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