The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-10
WORLDS FAIR TROPHIES.
The Mccormick Harvesting Machine Com.
pany Awarded Seven Medals and Diplo-
mAs for the Superior Excellence Of Their
FRtnAepa and Nowers.

The 1cC0fn1Ek Harvesting A0cn10S COu1s
pany Awarded Seven Medals and Diplo-
nas for the Superior Excellence Of Their
Binders and Mowers.
CHICAGO. Oct oath.
At the Worlds Columbian Exposition to-
day seven medals and seven diplomas were
awarded theMcCormickH Harvesting Machine
Company OF this city. These hcnors are in
recognition of the merit of the following
named machines manufactured by the Nc
Cormick Company: The Machine of Steel,
Bindlochine. Open Elevator. Mccormick
Simple knotter, No. Steel Mower, Big 4
Steel Mower and the Corn Harvester. These,
the highest awards, are based on the per-
torrance of the Mccormick machines be-
fore the judges in the field, a. the regular
deld trials of the Exposition, held at Wayne.
H., in July last, the machines tested being
those regularly built for the general trade.
It is q 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 capaollIties
! Of their machines in the field. The trSt
successful reaper was invented by Cyrus
Hail Mccormick in 1881, and from tha, time
! to this the Mccormick machines have had
won the grand gold medals aid highest
awards at every Worlds Fair, and 1t was
/ possibly for this reason that sixteen diher-
/ emit manufacturers Of Binders and Mowers
did not compete in the field with them.
throughout the entire season these sixteen
concerns, in their efforts to have noor
award granted, have done everything posi-
/ BILE to battle the Commission and prevent
fair opeu field exhibit that should test the
working Qualities of the machines. And
now. after q four months fight by the
makers Of harvesting machines who did not
dare meet Mccormick il the helG-a night
in which the United States Commission
voted at every turn that the only ray 10 eX-
anime a machine was by seeing II at wo-k IN
the tield-aud after having signed an agree
mept with all the others not 10 show IN the
field, one concern wanted an award so bad
IL that ONLY two weeks ago Il went so far as
to get secret permit TO pay the expenses
of q new Committee to secretly accompany
their special machines 10 Il remote section
of Colorado. where no other machines coG!c
be shown. and where the crop if there IS
any lefD must be much lighter, and the
surface of the ground hrHer. with tne EVIL
dent hope that these conditions would insure
as eaSv WORT. and as light draft as were
shown by the ocular Mccormick machines
in the official tests in July, il the very heavE
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 Tue Meteor
mick No. Mower showed wonderful power
al work ard Fl. cut machine, III held
averaging three tons 10 the acre. with a
dvnanomeser perfectly adjusted by the U.
| g rrs-o;i,p of Government Weights and
Measures, drew at work, az an average
draft of l52 lbs. The judges pronounce this
remarkable performance The MccormlcS
Binders, cuttings f.. of ncavv oats on up
hill ground. and carrying bundle carriers
measured by the same standardized dyna
mometer. showed q draft IS low as so io5-
and none higher than $50 lbs. This wonder
full showing was q great revelation 10 man!
5 distinguished foreigners at the trial. aud No
one present was II Il loss 10 know why more
machines did nos take part in the tests.