Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-10-12
AMERICAN TRIUMPH.
Notable visit of the Foreign Worlds Fair
Commissioners to North Dakota to View
Harvesting Machinery at Work.

ing procession half mile in length, and
steadily moving through q waving sea of
wheat-such was the sight that greeted the
Foreign Commissioners to the Worlds Fair
during their recent famous visit to the bo-
nanza farms of North Dakota. This impos-
ingspectacle was witnessed on the great Elk
Valley farm at Larimore, North Dakota. a
farm comprising $4,000 acres or nearly 10
square miles, 10000 acres Of which formed
one unbroken fenceless field Of wheat. TO
witness this sight the distinguished spec
tators, comprising fifty foreign diplomats,
Worlds Fair Commissioners and represen-
tativCs 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; aud
the EXPLANATIONS OF delight and surprise,
and the cries OF ssbravon that rang out on
tho air showed that their expectations were
vastly more than realized Sent here to
study all things American, these gentle
ing the methods in vogue on the much
talked-of "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 received one continuous ova-
ton. 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
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 the
great farm which they were to see.
Silently and almost breathlessly at first
via hA VIII w. hall -
chimes; then quickly alighting from their
conveyances they followed the machines on.
foot, eagerly peering into their mechanism
az 1t bent on finding the secret OF their per-
feet, automatic, almost noiseless action
For an hour or more they followed the
ma machines, asking innumerable questions Of
Mr.: Larimore and his sons, when they were
called to one side Of the field where scien-
tjfic tests Of draft were being made under
the supervision Of Mayor o. II. Phillips and
Mr.. G. n. O.mstead. 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
sulkies. Twelve tests were made on each
machine with registered Osterheld &
Eickmeyer dynamometer,e each representing
the draft involved in cutting q six foot
twenty-five seconds of time. The six cut
ting tests OF the binder showed an average
of only 298 poundsao of draft. The six tests
IN which the machine was run IN gear over
the tops OF the stubble just cut, known as
the trolling draft test, showed an average
draft of only 2O7 pounds. The Deering
Ideal mower, . new machine also fitted with
the bicycle bearings, in heavy grass showed
9 cutting draft averaging 1875 pounds, and
the rolling draft ninety-two pounds. The
remarkably low draft-abouJ half the draft
Of ordinary machines-shown by these fig