The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-07

more than pays the cost of the metal
lie blank, which is one-half inch wide
and one inch long, and when fasten-
ed on the cord, is about the size of
marble. The smallness of the fas-
tener make it easily rejected by
animals where straw is used for feed.
but if one is not noticed by the
animal and passes to the stomach it
is so small it readily shines over and
passes through without injury. No
objection is raised by millers for the
reason magnets are still used to
take out metal in wheat, which, it col
lects in passing through bins, cars
and elevators.
This machine has been brought to
the present stage of perfection by
three years trial in the field, and is
pronounced by all experts, as simple
in action, durable, positive in motion
and sure in operation. 1t is so con-
structed that it may be attached to
any Of the grain binders now made,
by removing the knotter and breast
plate and substituting my machine
which hangs upon the driving shaft
the same as the knotter. Otherwise
the frame work, gearing and packers
remain the same. The machine is
entirely under my control, by patents
issued and pending in this and for
eign countries, and it is yet to be de-
termined in what manner it will be
introduced. Metallic fasteners have
been tried for twenty-five years by
different inventors, the difficulty be-
ing heavy piece of metal brushes
the cord and light piece slips. I
claim the only metallic fastener ever
made which will not slip. crush or
mar the cord.
Among the various cords | have
tried, l find the one made by John
McGrath. of Minneapolis, from flax
fiber, taken from flax straw unretted,
the cheapest and STRONGEST He
makes this possible by the use of his
patent threshing attachment, which
not only threshes the seed clean from
the stalk; but leaves the fiber long
and uninjured, and also takes about
of the woody matter
out. From this fiber thus threshed,
Warden Henry Wolfer, of the Mime
sofa state prison, where binding cord
is now made, says he can make bind
ing Irvine at cost of one to one and
a half cents per pound; the farmers
furnishing the fiber, and paying
freight both ways; or the state will
buy the flax as soon as the demand
ARISES and make and sell it at cost,
or either way, at the option of the
farmers. Three-QuarterS of this flax
straw is not utilized but burned on
the ground. Counting the fiber
nothing to the farmer, his cost to
make and freight both ways would
come between two and three cents
per pound. One acre of flax will pro-
duce cord enough to bind one hun
dred acres of grain. This fiber makes
a rough soft cord, very strong with a
small per cent of the woody matter
and runs about five hun
dred feet to the pound. At present
three-quarters of the cord used in
the United States is carried half way
around the world, while the farmer
has the material to bind his own
grain growing in his own neigborhood,
provided he had the proper machine
to bind it with, and that at half or
less than half the cost. Home grown
material must bind home grown
grain, at nominal cost. For further
particulars, address inventor.
j. L. WARE,
St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, MINI.
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