The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-27
HO0SIER DRILL BIG
INDUSTRIAL CONCERN
Adds to Factories, Putting
Richmond on Indus
trial Map.
BOOSTS HOME TOWN
Largest Firm in the World
Making Seeding Ma
chinery for Trade.
BOOSTS HOME TOWN

That Richmond is permanently ON
the map" and widely known, is due in
a large measure to the magnitude OF
her industries, which do not depend
wholly upon local patronage for sup
port. That Richmond is also favor
ably as we'll as permanently in the geo.
graphies of the world is due to the
character of her industries and high
quality Of products, which, in general
cater to necessities rather than luxur-
les, and are therefore known and used
by rich and poor alike. Good goods
depend to a large extent upon the in
tegrity of the workmen who produce
them. Richmond shops are manned
by an unusually capable class of en-
ployes, many of whom iii prominent
positions in the social and civic life
of the city, county and state. With
these advantages it has been compare
lively easy to place the output of Rich
mond factories in the enduring lime
light OF public esteem, and no fac
tory has done more to preach the Cos
pei of Made in Richmond" goods than
the American Seeding Machine Com
pany.
Largest In World.
This concern, admitted to be the
largest in the world engaged in the eX-
elusive production of seeding ma
chimes, had it's inception in the vii
lage Of Milton in the year 1857. Out
growing the facilities there afforded,
the Hooser Drill company, as 1t was
then known, was transferred to Rich
mond in 1873, continuing to expand
until 1908, when as the American Seed
ing Machine company it entered upon
a period Of intense activity, enlarging
into it's present mammoth factory
equipment, and really encircling the
earth with its chain of customers. In
every country where cereals and corn
can be raised, the machines provided
by this company may be found faith
fully aiding in the struggle for bread.
The present day perfection of grain
drills made by the American Seeding
Machine company, Is really the last
word in the art of mechanical precis-
ion in sowing. Assyrian stone records
hint that King Esarhadden, $50 B. c..
encouraged the building of combined
pillow and seeder, the first recorded;
although the Chinese modestly claim
an antiquity of 270O B. c. for a wheel
barrow seeding device. At long in
tervals history mentions crude at
tempts to produce machines for SOW
ing grain, the first in the United
States being noted by patent shortly
after the close of the Revolutionary
war
But little advance was made how
ever, before 1870, grain drills even at
that time being generally made in one
type and size only. The period between
1890 and the present day marks the
most wonderful strides of the grain
drill industry. Richmond citizens not
directly connected with the manufac-
ture of seeding machines can scarcely
realize that right here in their very
midst more progress has been made
during the past 20 years toward the
perfection of this most important of
bread producing implements than had
been made in more than two thousand
five hundred previous years by the
combined nations of the earth.
With institutions of this nature with,
in her borders, Richmond will remain
on the map.