AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 121 



During the past year one hundred and fifty headers have been 

 built and sold in Nebraska alone. The price has been .$150 

 each, while the dealers were charging $325 a discount of 54 

 per cent., and a total saving in first cost of $26,250. 



Over three hundred Werner harvesters have been built in the 

 three States of Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota, and sold at $.140, 

 a saving on each machine of $80, and a total saving to the buy 

 ers of $24,000. The orders for the Werner this year very far 

 exceeded the capacity of the factories to supply, and next year 

 it is thought that three thousand of them will be called for. 

 They have everywhere given entire satisfaction when well made 

 and in the hands of competent operators. In a recent trial in 

 Minnesota between the Werner, the Marsh and the Massillon, 

 the Werner was adjudged the best of the three. Fully fifteen 

 hundred cultivators have been made and sold during the past 

 year, the price being $18 to $20 50 for an implement in every 

 way as good as those generally sold for $30 to $35. The coming 

 season a spring-tooth sulky rake will be made and offered for 

 about $25, such an one as now brings $35 to $45. These rakes 

 will be made at Des Moines and Dubuque, and probably at 

 other places also. A seeder will also be offered for about $40. 

 It is called the gang-plow seeder, and is equal in value to those 

 now sold for $85 to $75. 



A Bessemer steel beam plow is now making at Des Moines, 

 at the Given plow-works, which can be sold for $18. Mr. 

 Given will fill Patrons orders first at that price, while others 

 must wait to be served afterwards, and at a higher price. These 

 plows are first-class in every respect, far superior and much 

 lighter than any ordinary iron beam plow. 



A^mower is_ now making in New York, of which our Order 

 will have entire control. All the parts usually made of iron 

 are of Bessemer steel; the movement is very simple, and the 

 draft light. It is provided with self-oiling boxes, which require 

 attention but two or three times a week, and generally it is first- 

 class in all its parts. It will be sold in Iowa, freight paid, for 

 not more than seventy-five dollars. 



Arrangements will soon be completed to get sugars and 

 syrups direct from members of our Order in Louisiana through 

 the agency in New Orleans. Samples and prices are promised. 

 Prices of syrups, of course, vary with the market; but last 

 year the best pure cane syrups were sold in New Orleans for 

 thirty -five cents per gallon. 



