Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22
\ Practical Demonstration of
Value Of Jones Lever Binder.
TRUE MERIT VERSUS CHEAPNESS
Experience of WapelIo County Far
mer in Cutting Grain-Praises the
J Plano Binder-sold by E. A. Rea Co.,
This City.

IL is reported rnat some OIL the Bind
err manufacturers are having a great
deal of grief in the wet harvest this
season in getting their binders
through the mud Owing to the favor
able condition of the ground and grain
for the past few seasons, many farm
ers had begun to believe one machine
was as good as another, and this sea-
son not few purchased the one that
could be bought for the least money,
and as rule this would naturally be
the cheapest constructed, highest
weight machines manufactured. How
ever. when put to the test they found
to their sorrow that they could not
save their crop for the reason that the
binder would choke down and the drive
wheel stick in the mud. A great many
| of these machines have been thrown
back on the manufacturers hands and
today numbers of them can be seen
abandoned in the field, or in the
agents warehouses. Upon investiga-
ton they found one machine that
would cut on soft ground, they could
save their crop after all, and as re-
| suit the company manufacturing that
particular make of binder has enjoyed
| an enormous trade.
The Jones Lever Binder with bal
ance Wheel although an expensive ma
chine to make, is the only one that
does handle down tangled heavy grain
successfully when the ground is soft.
1t is true it costs the farmer few dol
lars more than any other make to COM
| mence with. but what is ten, twenty. or
4 Aft, In1l 10 q hnfwonn
binders, when the best is capable OF
saving his crop and the cheap machine
| will not? 1t takes season like this to
demonstrate merit and value in bind
ers, as much SO as a hard rain will
prove the value of good raincoat as
compared with light, thin, cheap one.
Stored power in balance wheel is
best brought out when the ground
wheel slips and sticks in the mud on a
binder as much as a balance wheel
drives a saw through a stick OF wood
or the momentum of speed of a train
of cars running miles without an en-,
CINE. The argument is simply unans'
werable and that the Plano Jones
Lever Binder will work successfully
when all others fail can be demonstrate
ed today by visiting any field and
watching the several different makes
in operation and you, Mr.. Reader, will
| say the cheapest is not the best but
the best, even if it does cost more, is
1 the cheapest in the end Please make
a note of this and when you buy an
other binder buy Jones Lever, save
your crops under any and all condi
tions with less work and worry anG
above all with less draft on your
horses.
AS evidence of the truth of the above
the following testimony was handed us
by one of the substantial farmers in
this county. AS matter of courtesy
we omit the name of competitors ma
chine, named by Mr.. Redmon.
Highland Center. Ia, July 10, 1902
ITO the Plano Mfg. Co., or Whom Il
May Concern:
| "Gentlemen:-This is to certify thai
| ] employed a new 1902 Binder
to cut my grain, but found could moi
depend upon this machine as the own
er was four days cutting twenty acres
of his own and 1t missed so many bun
1 dies did not want it. finally borrow
ed a Plano Binder with a fly wheel and
cut and stored my crop without trou
BILE. am free to say that a Plano vii
run on soft ground, cut and bind where
a -- can not cut. even If they have
4 five horses to pull it. would say tt
anyone wishing to buy binder, get {
Jones lever every time and save YOU
crop. Some of my neighbors who
bought other makes have lost part O
! their crops, while every Plano know
of run right along in the same kind OF
ground as the other machines were
i sticking in. VIM. G. Redmon."