Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-27
Machines with New Fea-
lures to be Tried Out in
This County.
INTERNATIONAL
CO.. EXPERIMENTS
Binders Shipped Here From
Kansas Will go to Chicago
After Being Tried.

Louis G. Hegborn Of the Chicago
office of the International Harvester
company has arrived in this city for
the purpose of preparing elaborate
tests and demonstrations which will
be made, through the efforts of the
local branch of the firm, with a num-
Der of new machines.
from Is to 20 other men who will
come here within about ten days to
try out the various machines which
the firm intends to place on the mar
ket as soon as they nave been salts
factorily tested.
An assortment Of Mccormick bind
ers, Deering binders, grain shockers,
binder engines and tractor engines
has been shipped here and will be
IN out in the fields throughout the
county as soon as harvesting time be-
gins. The experts sent from the head
Offices Of the International Harvester
company will closely observe the
work Of the various machinery, test
it thoroughly and later on submit
their reports to the experimental de-
parment.
The machines which will be used
in this county have already been do
ing harvest work in Hutchinson. Kan
sas, so that their work in this part Of
tHe couHtry VIII Ue LIS secoiio Iest u
the season. some of h machines
have gone through harvesting in
Texas also, were then shipped to
Kansas for demonstration, and now
have come to North Dakota.
The local agency Of the firm dis
tributes the machines among a num-
Der Of farmers who have fields large
enough for the purpose. Mi. Heg-
born. the advance expert, directs their
putting together and they are then
given to the farmers for work. Many
farmers will thus be able to reap
their harvest without any other ex-
penses thai the cost of Irvine, and, in
some instances, even that will be elm
mated.
When the harvest is over the ma
chinery will be taken apart, Grated,
and then shipped back to Chicago,
where the reports of the experts will
be carefully studied. If the machines
prove to have come up to expecta-
II not. they will be withdrawn.
The machines which the company
puts at the disposal Of a number of
Grand Forks county farmers are not
new Inventions. but are manufac-
tured according to older models with
new improvements attached. The
machines themselves have been tested
throughout a long. period, but new
features are being constantly added,
and order to- demonstrates their
utility or uselessness the company
goes to the expense. and effort OF
shipping carloads of binders and
tractors to farmers in various parts OF
the country.
Inventive minds in the shops Of the
International Harvester company are
every year constructing new devices
These cannot be put to practical use
before they have been thoroughly
tested, n the aim of the experiment,
department Is to reassure itself tina,
h added inventions really are i'm.
i provements which will make the ma.
chimes even more efficient than they
were before. Efforts are constantly
\ being made to reduce the cost al
much as possible and to increase the
efficiency Of the binders, tractors
4 grain shockers. etc, which are being
manufactured by the Chicago firm.
The farmers in Grand Forks count.
i will now have an excellent oppor,
tuntty to familiarize themselves with
the added features of the binders ant
the experiments about to be made will
be equally instructive to the manu-.
lecturers and to the farmers.