Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
FARMERS Use BEST
IN farm MACHINERY
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deduction, said Mr.. Knapp, during
the course of that interview, "that
the farmer who has silo and a
manure spreader leads his industry in
his neighborhood. These two COM
modities make safe index to eff
cheney in farming methods. All good
don't have them, but no poor farmer
has them
And so it seemed to the Herald
man. Accordingly he set out to dis
cover as nearly as possible how the
trade is progressing with it's efforts
to sell up-to-date farm machinery
Silos are not sold in Lancaster by the
machinery and implement men, but
the very latest in labor saving wares
for use on the farm is sold, and that
was what we went after.
G, W, Knapp & Son report good
sales in manure spreaders, but no
great increase over last year. In
gang plows they have almost doubled
last years business, and the gang
pillow is accounted an advanced piece
of machinery. There have been gang
plows on the market for years, but
the new designs are regarded as
superior to those of few years ago.
But the buggy trade has surprised
the Knapps most of anything. To
the beginning of May they have sold
more than 20 in excess of last year. s
trade up to the same date, and 1913
is called successful year. In all
lines of business commercial bust
ness-1913 will long stand as the
standard. Of course the Knapp stock
of buggies is large and varied, and
one must expect heavy sales.
One power COW milking outfit has
been sold, and with it went an
electric lighting plant. The power
for the milking apparatus is supplied
by an electric motor. This outfit
went into North Lancaster.
Manure spreaders are our lead
ers," said one of the firm of Fisher
& Pagenkopf, when asked what sorts
of advanced method machinery was
doing the most business for them.
eve sell good many gang plows,
but the spreader is taking the lead. -
This firm also pleaded guilty to large
sales all down the line.
Buggies and lumber wagons are
proving bread winners for this firm,
too. They say the automobile has
not driven these goods out of the
market. In conclusion they said
"Our business is better this year than
ever before, especially in those
articles that mark the purchaser as a
high grade farmer. We are con-
WINGED that Grant county farmers lead
the state, if not the west, in modern
methods. -
Baxter & Draper say that in cream
separators they have sold as many SC
far this year as they did all of 1913.
And their separator IS the highest
priced article in that line. They
put in a small line of steel fence
posts this year, as an experiment.
They really did not expect to sell
many, by reason of the high price.
But they have sold out half of their
stock. Henry Fisher, North Lam
caster, and Aug. Roesch, Potosi,
have used steel posts this year.
More farmers have bought lawn
mowers this year than ever before
in like period in Lancaster.
And so it has been with M. Nc
Donald. He has sold a number of
large jobs of steel posts. John
Williams & Sons, George Bailie &
Son, Frank Belskamper and Richard
Willis, all of South Lancaster, have
bought these expensive posts. Sales
of this kind indicate that our farmers
are not so much exercised about the
first cost, as they are about the
quality of the goods they get.
From every side comes the informa-
tion that Grant county farmers are in
splendid financial condition. These
reports and the figures back of them
show that the outward evidences of
prosperity that one sees in riding
through the country are genuine
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