The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-03-07
AM IMMENSE consignment
Of Agricultural Machinery Be-
ing Shipped to Russia.
BY DEERING HARVESTER co.
Business of This Progressive Concern
Expanding at a Rapid Rate Goods
Sent to all Parts of the World.---
Plant Covering 80 Acres Produces
Finesl Harvesting Machinery Known

Recent dispatches from New York
convey the information that seven
ship loads of American agricultural
implements will be forwarded from
that city and Philadelphia to Odessa
within the next FIVE or six weeks.
The first steamer, the Othello, sailed
early in February from Philadelphia,
carrying more than 10000 tons of
reapers, mowers, havesters, rakes,
etc., for the southern Russia markets.
and will be followed by the steamers
"Alecto," "Costelle, 4" "Seriphos, !"
Cecilia, Georgia" and "Minos. .
A large part of the cargo of these
steamers will be made up of products
of the Deering Harvester company.
This vast consignment of Deering
agricultural implements is but another
instance of the fact that there is not a
civilized spot in the world today
where Deering goods are not known.
Last December William Deering, the
founder of this immense business, re-
tired, leaving the business to his sons,
Charles and James Deering, and his
SON. law, Rich. F. Howe, and the
excellent way in which the company
has started the new year is ample
evidence of the fact that the present
owners intend to perpetuate the name
and reputation of the Deering plant
in a manner that will reflect honor
upon the founder and credit upon
themselves.
This great industry was established
in 1858 on comparatively small scale,
William Deering acquiring control in
1879. Today employment is given to
some 5000 persons. An idea OF che
magnitude of the institution may be
gained from a knowledge of the fact
that it has capacity for turning out
/, 800 complete harvesters day, and
slips ABOUT $4,000 car loads
of material and machinery every
year. The plant covers SO
acres of ground, and is model. -. in
every sense of the word. The extent
of its product is sufficient to attest the
unsurpassed facilities enjoyed and
every condition combines to substan-
tiate the assertion that it is today the
greatest institution of its kind in the
world.
The range of production of the Deer
ing Harvester Company embraces grain
binders, headers, mowers, reapers,
corn binders, huskers, shredders, and
hay rakes, known as "Deering Ideals. ,
The company also produces binding
Irvine, knife grinders and other har-
vesting appliances. The Deering twine
mills make one third the world 8. sup
ply of binder Irvine, 80, 900 miles
being the daily output, and are there
fore not approached in magnitude by
any others in existence. 1t is but a
matter of record to state that the
greatest inventions and improvements
in harvesting machinery during the
last forty years have been given to the
world by the Deering concern.
The Deering Harvester company not
only extinguished all of its competi-
tors at the worlds fair OF 1898, held
in Chicago, but scored its greatest
triumph at the Exposition Universelle,
Paris, 1900. No less than thirty of the
highest honors were conferred upon the
seven superb exhibits of the company.
The honors embraced: Decoration of
Officer of the Legion of Honor, decora-
tion of Chevalier of the Legion of
Honor, two decorations of Officer of
Merite Agricole, Special Certificate of
Honor, the Grand Prix, six gold
medals and eleven bronze medals. AS
testimonial of his appreciation of
the company's Paris exhibit Emperor
William conferred upon Deering the
Prussian Royal order of the Crown, a
rare and most distinguished honor.
In view of these achievements it is
hardly necessary to state that every
product of the Deering institution is
made of the best material, by skilled
workmen, and after patterns designed
to produce the highest possible
efficiency. So highly regarded has the
name of Deering become the agricul-
turists the world over prefer products
bearing that name to all others, the
admirable operation and remarkable
durability of same making them not
only more popular, but vastly more
profitable in the long run. While this
unqualified reputation is largely due
to the energetic and straightforward
business methods of William Deering,
there is every Indication that his sue
cessors will perpetuate the name in a
highly acceptable manner.