The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1920-08-05
One Man Cuts, Har-
vests and Threshes
40 Acres in Day

whereWlth one man can cut, harvest
and thresh forty to seventy acres of
standing grain in single day. The
demonstration occurred near Fair
mount Cemetery in Denver. The ma
chine moved through the field of
standing grain and cut and threshed
as it went, dumping the clean grain
into the wagon which it hauls along
This is the first time in history that
one man has been able to accomplish
so great a task alone.
This machine has capacity of sew
en- acres an hour-nearly twice that of
any other machine of similar cost.
The saving in ordinary grain accomp-
lished by Combines over the old meth
ods of heading, stacking and threshing
was demonstrated to be 81 an acre in
Kansas in 1919. At this rate the Saw
age Combine will pay for itself in
forty hours and thereafter earn for
its owner clear cash profit of $40
an hour - "a per cent daily dividend
on the farmers investment. No ma
chine at similar cost in the history of
mechanics has ever paid for itself in
so short time. II the self-binder
in its present perfected state had been
driven for the first time into field
where husky hands were swinging the
scythe and cradle, it would not have
created greater sensation than this
new Combine Harvester which moves
into the field Of headers, binders,
threshing engines, separators, straw
wagons, cook cars, pitchforks, horses
and men. 1t promises by the convinc
ing argument of plain dollars and
cents. in the next ten years to Junk
5000 100000 worth of useless equip
ment and to send armies of harvest
hands after other means Of subsis-
tence. It is generally admitted that
there are 60,000,000 acres of wheat.
rye, flax and barley in seventeen
states west of Kansas City which con-
stitute an immediate, ready, waiting
market for this machine. This terri
tory and the export trade to the vast
acreage of dry land farming through
out the world will constitute a market
that will require the reorganization
Of many of the industries and the
launching of new ones-a movement
of capital which is likely to attain
the proportion Of the entire automo-
tive industry.
OF the patents they now hold, and in
definitely thereafter as a result of the
patented Improvement it will develop
from time to time, the Savage Har-
vester Company will enjoy a practical
monopoly. Its patents are iron-clad,
basic, comprehensive. Other companies
must rely for separating the grain
from the rhaff upon the old system
whereby the mixture of straw, chaff
and grain are gradually separated BY
agitation and light blasts of wind
a method which requires a big cum
bersone separator on account of the
size and weight of the mechanism nee
essary. It is self-evident that a strong
blast Of wind will blow more chat
than a light one-but a strong blast
of wind will also blow grain-here is
the merit Of the Savage patent-the
grain is shot across the opening be-
hind the cylinder at a velocity Of
more than sixty miles an hour and
the grain is not DETECTED from its
course, but the chaff having little
weight is blown away. No other
company has right to apply a blast
OF wind between the cylinder and sep
arator-the only place it can be ap-
piled successfully without blowing out
the grain.
Here we have all the elements of a
timely enterprise practical monop-
oily to lead in the field of production
an immense new field in a basic in
dustry-a tremendous waiting demand
as resrlt of an actual saving in dol
lars and cents, such as never was
known before-in other words an op-
portunity. 1t is an opportunity that
has seldom occurred in industry and
mechanics. The question is often
asked why such opportunities are Of
fered before they can be accepted and
they must be offered to the general
public or the inventor must surrender
to capital. Mr.. Curtis C. Baldwin is
an exception to the rule. Unassisted
by capital he has organized the Saw
age Harvester company to market his
invention - he has placed it upon a
sound financial basis successfully
demonstrating the first and only one
man machine in the world and has
prepared to manufacture these ma
chimes in quantities in 1921.
Millions have been made by men
who have invested in new things that
filled general need-but it requires
Judgment, foresight and some cour-
age to get into thing when it is
new, rather than wait until it is old
and established.
The Savage Harvester Company has
moved into their new headquarters
in the Albany Hotel Building, Den
yer, where they will have a machine
fully set up and operated by cleo
tricity-they will have moving pic
lures Of the machine in operation in
the field-they will also demonstrate
their machine in northeastern Colo
RADIO and notice of time and place will
he nl1hli ahed in this nanor