The Bessemer indicator., 1893-10-14

Phillips and MIR. c. II. olmstead. Tho
machines tested, the Deering PONY
binder and the Deering Ideal mower,
were remarkable because embodying
the ball and roller bearings, such Us
are used in bicycles and bicycle su,k-
les. Twelve tests were made on each
machine with registered 0sterheld d &
Eickmeyer dynamometer, each repre-
senti- = the draft involved in cutting
q o foot swath. 100 feet in length, in
twenty TO twenty-five seconds of time.
The six cutting tests with the binder
showed an average of only 2ss pounds
of draft. Six tests followed in which
the machine was run in gear over the
tops of the stubble just cut. This
test, which Is known as rolling
draft, showed an average draft
Ct 2O7 pounds. The Deering
Ideal mower, new machine
also fitted with the bicycle bearing S,
showed cutting draft in heavy grass
averaging only 126 pounds, and a
rolling draft of only 92 pounds. The
remarkably low draft-about half the
draft of ordinary machines-shown by
these figures for both machines was
carefully noted by the astonished
visitors as demonstrating the practi-
cability of the bicycle bearings. The
same Pony binder drawn by two light
mules cut an acre of wheat in 22 u
minutes
PAPER TwINE USED.
A nota BILE feature of the binder test
was the use on the Pony binder of the
Deering "paper' twine, made from u
wood fiber. This twinc, patented by
William Deering t& Co., bids fair to
prove Waterloo to the twine trust,
as 1t is said that it can be made md
sold at prices considerably below
those now paid for the hemp and
sisal fibers.
At the close of these tests the COM
missioners, together with party of
spectators, were rendered q good. sub
stantial prairie chicken dinner by Mr..
Larimore. Toasts followed. Gov.
Shortridgc, Mayor Phillips and Rev.
]. II. Kelley delivered eloquent ad.
DIRE SEES of welcome. Appropriate re-
srcnses were made bv u. NJ. Deperalta
OF costa Rica, MIR. Grinevsky, tine assist.
ant Russian commissioner, Don AL
berto Gomez Ruano of Uruguay, Mr..
Harry Vincent of Costa Rica and Judge
Atwater. Mr.. Larimore also spoke.
He said that by using the best meth
DDS and ma, hinery he had reduced the
cost Of raising and marketing wheat
to between 81. So and $500 an acre.
MR.. APPLEBY SURPRISES THE COMMITS
SIoSERs.
Mr.. John F. Appleby, the inventor
of the Appleby Irvine binder, whose
presence was surpri.e to the COM
missioners, told tho h story of his
early struggles and the tinnl universal
adoption of his invention. lie paid a
glowing tribute TO Mr. William Deer
ing, to whose enterprise he said tho
world WAS indebted for the intr oduc-
tion and general adoption of tho ma.
chine. Said he: ''In 1870, when the
Deering company made seventy-five
of these binders, people smiled know
ingly and predicted failure. The next
year when Mr.. Deering made 5000 OF
the machines. tho manufacturers OF
the old reaper and the wirc binder
said he was crazy. II he was crazy
all the manufacturers of harvesting
machinery who have been forced TO
follow his example have also become
violently insane, Lsughter and the
millions OF farmers who now use the
invention are At candidates for q
lunatic asylum" Laughter and ap-
plAusc.
Tho excursionists left for Alton and
the great DaIrymple farms at p. M,
whore they witnessed threshing ma
chiuta at work on . crop of wheat
that was cut from 1900 acrcs BY 100
Deering binders-a make that ia used
exclusively BY the Dalrymples. From
Alton they journeyed TO Fargo. where
the marvellous result Of tho western
pluck, which in season Of hard times
had built . solid city Of brick and NOR
tar ON the bed OF Ashss that had lain
emokIng there only ninety days be-
fore. From Fargo, tho quests re.
turnsd to Chicago brimful OF snthusi.
asa evsr shs wonders thsv had reen.