The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-11-11
WORLDS FAIR TROPHIES.
Tho Mccormick Harvesting Machine Com
pany Awarded Seven Medals and Dirlo-
mas for tho Superior Excellence of Their
Binders and Mowers.
CHICAGO. Oct. 2Ith

CHICAGO, Oct. 9th.
At the Worlds Columbian Exposition TO-
day seven medals and seven diplomas were
awarded the Mccormick Harvesting Machine
Company of this city. These homors are in
recognition of the merit of the following
named machines manufactured by the Nc
Cormics Company: The Machine of Steel.
Bndlochine, Open Elevator, Mccormick
Simple Knotter, No. 4 Steel Mower, Big 4
Steel Mower and the Corn Harvester. These,
the highest awards, are based on the per-
formance of the Mccormick machines be-
fore the judges in the field, at the regular
field trials CT the Exposition, held at Wayne,
H., 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 their machines in the field. The first
successful reaper was invented by Cyrus
Fall Mccormick in 1881, and from that time
to this the Mccormick machines have had a
decided prestige over all others. They have
! won the grand gold medals and highest
| awards at every Worlds Fair, and it was
| possibly for this reason that sixteen differ
ent 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 II floor
award granted, have done everything possi-
BILE to bnf1ie the Commission and prevent n
fair open field exhibit that should test The
working qualities of the machines. Aud
| now, after IL four months fight by the
makers of harvesting machines VINO did not
! dare meet Mccormick in the held-;L light
| in which the United States Commission
| voted at every turn that the only way to ex-
anime a machine was by seeing it NJ work in
| the field and after having signed an agree
| ment with all the others not to show in the
! field, one concern wanted an award So bad
! ly that only TWO weeks ago 1t went so far as
to get Il secret permit TO pay the expenses
| of IL new Committee to secretly accompany
| their special machines to . remote section
I of Colorado. where no other machines could
/ be shOWn, ;IuG H.ere the crop Or there iG
! any lefD must be much lighter, and the
| surface of the ground iirmer, with the evi-
! dent hope that these conditions would insure
| us easy work and as light draft as were
! shown By the reg ular Mccormick machines
| in the official tests in July, in Tie very heavy
| grain then harvested. The diplomas award
! ed the Mccormick machines speak IN high
| est terms of their efficiency, ease OF haEd
! Eng and extreme light draft. The LlrCor
B Ui.CG .Ht. MpNtl NitpWSt HolsEiiii iipEei
at work, and Il !, ft cut machine, IN Il field
averaging three tons to the acre, wish Il
| dynnmomcter perfectly adjusted bv the U
| S. Custodian OF Government Weights anC
| Measures. drew ut work, at an average
! draft Of 152 lbs. The judges pronounce this
remarkable performance. The McCormics
Binders, cuttingG ft, or heavy oats on up
| hill ground, ana carrying bundle carriers
measured by the same standardized dyna
mometer, showed IL draft as low na S21 lbs.
and none higher than 3Go lbs. This wonder
ful showing was II great revelation to man.
distinguished foreigners nt the trial, and NJ
one present was at II loss o Inow why more
Machincs did not take purt il The tests