The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-04-15
1910 Idaho National
Harvester

tional Harvester; of conveying some
idea of wherein the 1910 model diff.
fers from the machine of last syear, a
representative of the Star. Mirror
visited the factory and looked over
the latest model. To begin with IT
is pointed out that for the FIRST time
the company was putting out a ma
chine. Manager Mix explained that
heretofore the company had really
never built a machine with view TO
permauency; that all the machines up
to this time had been simply working
models, built with view to expert.
menting.
So far as the machine went the
principles we're there, but is was only
by actual experience and field tests
that the details could be worked out,
and all parts properly adjusted. For
example it was found that the machine
was deficient in its cleaning capacity,
owing to lack of wind. At that time
the machine had a blower. They
tried it in the Harold grain above
Palouse City in this county in field
that was not only rank, but which
made yield OF something like sixty
bushels per acre, and found that the
machine must have more wind.
Within week the company had re
modelled their machine; had solved the
problem by substituting fan six feet
long directly under the cylinder in
place of the blower, shown to be de.
fective.
IL was with this latest model that
the company last fall did a quality of
threshing that surprised the country,
the wheat coming from the machine
so clean that millers and grain buyers
pronounced it by far the fuest Job of
threshing they had ever seen.
Last year the company put re.
cleaner on their combine; this year
they have improved it, making it prac.
tlcaily double the former capacity,
with immeasurably more wind. A
feature of the new recleaner is an ad
justment whereby the sacksewer, sit.
ting within easy reach of lever, may
adjust it to suit the peculiar lay Of
sidehills. This keeps the grain from
punching at either side OF the reclean.
err. thus giving the wind an opportu-
nlty to get at the evenly distributed
grain and remove the chaff.
Where the 1909 machine was built
for four horses, with cut of FIVE feet,
six inches, the new model cuts swafh
seven feet wide. weighs ton and one.
half, and is designed for eight horses.
enough to handle it easily under any
circumstances. This is an increase
in cut of almost one third, and will
easily harvest from twelve to fifteen
acres per day,
Last year some difficulty was expe-
rienced in getting the down grain. To
overcome this trouble the platform
has been heightened six inches, and
the parts so changed as to be raised
and lowered with greater ease.
While the cylinder of last year was
successful, it has been improved, there
now being four rows of teeth where
the last years combine had only three,
The new cylinder is also an inch larger
in diameter, making the actual thresh.
ing capabity of the cylinder, already
the best in the world, practically dou-
BILE that of last season. Another i'm
provement. made for the purpose OF
giving the combine capacity to handle
the heaviest down grain. such as was
encountered last season, is an increase
of one hundred revolutions per min.
ute in the cylinder. This with the
increase in size, gives the Idaho Ma
tional harvester capacity inmeasur-
ably greater than any other harvester
so far manufactured. This new har
vester has patent cylinder tooth tina,
will thresh smutty wheat and not breal
the smut balls. Again, 1t is the only
tooth ever made that does not cracl
the grain. Last season the company
made a cast iron tooth and much
trouble was experienced by the break
ing of them. This season the tooth
is made OF malleable steel, insurine
no trouble from this source.
But the most noted change in the
construction of the combine is in the
1910 frame. Where il was weak last
year, it is now strong and rigid, SO
constructed that 1t is absolutely i'm.
pOssible under apy condition to twist