The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-22
SIDNEY STEVENS
IMPLEMENT CO.
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| Is distinctly new harvester. invent
ed and built on principals which have
not heretofore been applied, but
f, which are now protected by patents
THE inventors Cornelius Quesnell,
a blacksmith, and Andrew M. Ander
son wagon maker of Moskow, Ida
| no, within the past five years have
| perfected eleven distinct inventions
ton of this wonderful machine called
the Idaho Harvester" the patents
for which are owned by the manufao
turing company.
This machine enables farmer 20
take eight horses and his sixteen-year
old son into his field and with one
! operation cut, thresh and sack his
grain, with no more expense than 1t
has ordinarily cost heretofore for
binder twine, under the old methods
of harvesting
Last year twenty-five machines
| NtlC uStu otdoOh anu were
buted throughout Idaho, Oregon and
Washington, for testing under most
trying conditions, with the result
that the most skeptical experts pro.
nounced them to be success in ev-
cry way
THE Agricultural College Depart
ment of the University of Idaho gave
the Idaho Harvester" tryout last
fall for not only threshing wheat, oats
and barley but also for threshlng
field peas and beans and pronounced
1t success.
"rhe scarcity and high price OF
labor at harvest time mas always
been a serious matter in the great
grain producing sections Of the west
Much of the trouble about help in
harvest time and the enormous ex'
pense of threshing crews, Irvine bills.
and the worry over many other ex.
pensive things are done away with by
the use of the new machine.
"The farmer will be Independent In
harvest time as at any other period
because he can reap what he sows
with no increase of his usual force,
saving, on an average, four dollars
an acre in the cost of harvesting.
A farmer who has eight head oil
horses with which to do his blowing,
seeding, and other farm work, can
afterwards put his grain in the stack
with the same help, and no more, un
less, perhaps an extra boy to sew up
I the sacks as they are filled. One man
and boy can go into the field with
an Idaho" and cut, thresh, and sacl;
twelve to sixteen acres per day.
, Numerous farmers having used an
Idaho" for the season 1910, say they
saved the cost of a machine In the
harvesting of $50 acres of wheat
figuring four bushels to the acre. Be
sides this they claim to have saved
, from two to four bushels more grain
, per acre than it has been possible fol
q them to save by the methods com
monty employed.
a 1T will be observed also that, In
a a cost of from seventy-five cents u
a one dollar per acre to put grain ir
, the sack with an Idaho" are figur
' ed good harvest wages for man, bo,
q and eight head of horses, otherwise
all expense would be for oil and oc
+, casional repairs.
z THE aggregate Of the possible say
4 ing, at an average Of five dollar,
y per acre each year throughout thu
r. grain growing countries Of the worl'
[. will amount to many million dollars
Y THE machine in action weigh
O 5000 pounds and is constructed a
most entirely of steel and iron cast
ing with ball and roller bearing
!, throughout"
v Since taking the agency for tht
X harvester the local house has sol
n several to farmers In this county.