Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-08-01
Hs.r.'!.. King!
1t is Without Doubt the Coming
Machine will Revolution
ize Grain Cutting in the
Great Northwest.
A Thorough and Successful
Test on the Becker farm
mile N. E. of this
City Tuesday.
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AS announced in our last issue a trial
OF the new harvester "Craver's Harves-
ter King" took place Tuesday, in "a
wheat field on the Becker farm, one mile
northeast of this city. At the request
OF the local agents, Ochsenreiter & Small,
who by the way are always leaders in
any new enterprise which will facilitate,
improve, or in any way tend TO be bene-
fetal to the country, u representative of
the REPORTER visited the field and saw
the machine at work. Arriving at the
field we found quite a party ofspectators
watching with much interest the opera
tons. The machine was in charge of j.
X. Rouge, the company's expert, a cour-
teous and obliging gentleman, always
ready to answer questions and furnish
any desired information. &C. Hart was
doing the engineering.
The field whore the trial was held was
an ideal place to give "a thorough test,
but not n very desirable one in which to
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this field is very rough-a part OF it being
new b~reaking-then it is very rolling.
The grain was quite ripe on the hills and
very green in the swales, short and thin
in places, long and very thick in others,
so shaped that a machine has to be run
i'll every conceivable shape to cut it.
On the southwest OF the field is a steep
side hill, where the grain had to be eleva-
ted up quite a steep incline to reach the
binder. 1t is questionable whether an
ordinary six or seven foot cut machine
would work perfectly here, though the
"Harvester King" did its work here as
well as in any other part of the field
never missing a bundle or getting clog
ged.
The machine was propelled by four
horses, that they seemed to take it along
as easily as they would an ordinary six
foot cut machine was the common re-
mark. 1t cuts aud binds IL II loot
swath with apparent ease, dropping the
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At a little distance the sheayes coming
from the binder would remind one OF
eobs from a corn shelter.
THE HARVESTER KING
is made on the same principle as the
header-is a combined header and binder
the sickle bar is in front and the horses
behind. The machine is handled and
steered by the driver. 1t has all the
~cOnveniences of an ordinary binder and
as easily operated, cutting a full II foot
swath in any kind OF grain and handling
it in good shape.
An idea can be formed OF the rapidity
with which the bundles are turned out
when it is stated that the machine was
timed and dropped bundles at the rate
OF 80 per minute, leaving them about
three feet apart on the guound.
This trial has demonstrated clearly it
is the coming machine and the clean, per-
feet work OF it's harvester and binder
make it the Harvester King in fact a.
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The greatest advantage is, one man
and four horses will do the work of two
ordinary harvesters with two men and
eight horses; another advantage is its
simplicity, there is only six parts to the
knotter.
Mr.. Appleby, the grain binder inven-
tor, says OF this machine:
"Tle most effective work of my life is
now being placed on the market by the
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will mark a new era in the history OF
agricultural implements"
All who saw the machine work have
nothing but words OF praise to offer OF it
and it's operation.
For complete, detailed description,
cuts and explanations, go to the local
agents, Ochserreiter & Small, and get a
catalogue, read it carefully, then see the
machine work and you will be convinced
it IL TIE only harvester.
LOSTllll-Pocket medicine case, on
the road between Webster and Horse
ohna I aEa ON Tuesday July l6 A Sujt-