The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-01-24
Worlds Fair Trophies.

The Mccormick Harvesting Ma.
chine Company Awarded Seven
Medals am Diplomas for the supe'
rior Excellence of their binders
and Mowers
At the worlds Fair, on October
oath, seven medals and seven di-
plomas were awarded the McCOr.
mick Harvesting Machine Campo
ny of Chicago. These honors are in
recognition of the merit of the fol-
lowing-named machines manufact-
ured by the Mccormick Company
The Machine of Steel, Bindlochine,
Open Elevator, Mccormick Simple
Knoter, No. 4 Steel Mower and the
Corn Harvester. These the high
est awards are based on the per-
formances of the Mccormick ma
chimes before the judges in the field
at the regular field trials of the
Exposition, held at Wayne Hi
noise, in July last, the machine
tested being those regularly built
for the general trade. 1t is a sig
nificant fact that of all the manu-
facturers of harvesting machinery
having exhibits at the Worlds
Fair, the Mccormick Company
alone complied with the commit
tees request to show the
capabilities of their machines in
the field. The first successful reap
er was invented by Cyrus Hall Nc.
Carmick in 1881, and from that
time to this the Mccormick ma
chimes have had decided prestige
over all others. They have won the
grand Gold medals and high est
awards at every Worlds Fair, and
it was possibly for this reason that
sixteen different manufacturers OF
Binders and Mowers did not com.
pete in the field with them
Through the entire season these
sixteen concerns, in their efforts to
have a floor award granted did ev-
erything possible to battle the Com
mission and prevent a fair open
field exhibit that should test the
working qualities of the machines
And after a four months fight by
he makers of the harvesting ma.
chimes who did not dare meet Nc
cormick in the ZELDA fight in
which the United States commits
sion voted at every turn that the
only way to examine machin
was by seeing it at work in the
field-and after having signed ar
a greement with all the others not
to show in the field, one concern
wanted an award so badly that only
a few days before the close Of the
Fair it went so far as to get Sc
cret permit to pay the expenses O
new committee to secretly &C
company their special machines
to a remote section of Colorado
where machines could be shown
and whereithe crop (if any be left,
must haveibeen much lighter, anc
the surface of the ground firmer
with the evident hope that these
conditions insure as easy work anC
as light draft as were shown by
the regul Mccormick machines
in the official test in July, in the
very heavy grain then harvested
The diplomas awarded the McCor
mick machines speak in highest
terms of their efficiency, ease OF
handleing and extreme light draft.
The Mccormick No. Mower
showed wonderful power at work,
and five foot cut machine, in a
field averaging three tons to the
acre, with dynamometer perfect
ly adjusted by the United States
Custodian of Government Weights
and measures, drew at wark, at an
average draft of 1852 pounds. The
judges pronounce this remark
able performance. The McCor-
mick Binders, cutting six feet of
heavy oats on uphill ground, and
carrying bundle carriers, measured
by the same standardized dyna-
showed draft as low as
800 pounds and none higher than
$50 pounds. This wonderful show
ing was a great revelation to many
distinguished foreigners at the tri- .
u, and no one present was at a loss
o know why more machines didn't
axe part in the test.