The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-18
New Binders and Headers Just Intro
duced in the Palouse Country.
Colfax Letter in Spokane Spokesman.

Colfax Letter in Spokane Spokesman.
1t is estimated that over 200 binders have
been sold I'm the county this season. These
will take the place of some seventy-fve
headers and do away with 30 men that
have usually been employed at $50 to 50
per day.
The binder is not claimed TO be a
cheaper or more convenient method of
harvesting. but only allows a farmer
longer time in which To do his work Sew
eral years ago the binder sprung into
great popularity and a large number of
them Were sold for a season or two. but
within two or three years most Of them
were standing idle I'm the fence corners
This was not so much on account OF the
failure Of the application Of the principle
OF one-man harvest as on account Of the
machine itself, which did not at that
time prove a success on the side hills
This defect has been remedicd by later
improvements. until IL gives excellent
satisfaction in this respect
Another machine which promises 20 be-
come a popular one after a more thor
ough trial is the combined header and
wagon. which was gotten up by Edward
Marsh. near Endicott. and run so stc-
cessfully in that vicinity last season. cut
ting 90 or 40 acres Of grain. This ma
chine consists Of a small header cutting
four or six-foot swath. and so attached
10 the side Of header wagon that ono
wagon
is driven in The grain until the wagon Is
fun az headed grain. when the machine Is
thrown out ~ gear and the load driven 20
the stack. The machine Is simple and in
expensive. and with u one man and he
team can head an stack eight acres ~
grain a dav. This is QGite an advantage
over the twelve-foot header whf-h -
qaires SIX men ana Afteea horses - he,7
twertv-flva acres dRv. AMI tho a9v7~-
fege e has over the binder is the saving
~ labor from having the grain elevated
into the wagon instead Of thrown ON the
ground. necessjtating gathering II un
The grain IS easier 20 thresh when headed
van "Aen found. oa account OF less
straw being Cut.
Another labor saving machine Il +ta
combined headers and threshers that V-c~a
Introduced IN thc Paiotse co4-t~7, tv-o
Years ago ana gave such eXrellert salts
Iac'loH. both fEst secsan and in lSsi
"Frn fa@Se machines FIVE men ana thirty
NO horses cut. thcesh and sack t,ven+,.-
fve snd thirty acres 81 grain "a 5.,
This is undoubtedly the cheansst method
81 harvesting, but these machines are =.
large that they are not couvenfertl,- or,a~.
Htsf Or sma0 fields % grain. a~s si7~a
ne large farms have nearly al been re-
duced - smaller ones within the 1... 49,,
wears. there are few farms on which .bse.
have much ADVANTAGE over othe- ~,s-t,,-
cry ore 80 these harvsste-s. which an
IN few miles east az town this sesso,
has already contracted 81 acres - q-~.t.,
az SSo and g. peT acre for cutting ara
threshirg which ts the cheapest Ssv,-ae,-
ing contracts ever made IN this section ~
the country.
These methods % harvesting. together
Nib the reduced acreage Of grain. has
- tesse1ed Tire demand for hands that
employment seems harder TO find than In
previous seasons