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The "Flour City" Press, No. 9. 



The Most Hap id Press ever Made. 



The above cut represents our latest improvements in baling presses. The entire 

 machine, excepting plunger, feed board, hopper and pole is made of iron and steel, 

 with all parts where the greatest strain occurs made amply large, in order that care- 

 lessness in operating may be counteracted. This machine, it will be seen at a glance, 

 will last a lifetime. It is the lightest geared press on the market, yet will stand the 

 most severe usage. We do not make the statement that it cannot be broken, but we do 

 claim that it will stand more work without breaking than any other press now on the 

 market. Any one who is familiar with hay presses knows that the work required of 

 them is more severe than that required of any other class of agricultural machinery, 

 and a press to stand up to its work must be built to resist strain to the bes-t possible 

 advantage. Wood frame machines can be made just as strong as iron-framed ones, and 

 can be run just as successfully; but when the joints of a wood frame machine begin to 

 wear away, the decline of that machine is rapid. Not so with an iron-framed machine. 

 All joints, once tight, will stay tight forever. The dust accumulating on a press and 

 getting wet will rot a wood frame machine in its joints quicker than most persons 

 imagine. 



An all iron and steel press is not affected by the weather in the least. Our No. 9 

 is a four-horse press, and has a capacity equal to the most rapid steam press in the 

 market. It can be run to its fullest capacity with a two-horse tread power, or can be 

 operated as a steam press when so ordered. A customer desiring the neatest looking, 

 lightest running, most rapid and most enduring horse-power press, will make no mis- 

 take in ordering our No. 9. 



Capacity. No. 9 press with four horses, one to two tons of hay or straw can be 

 baled in an hour. Bales variable lengths ; weight per bale, from 100 to 110 pounds, in- 

 suring 10 to 11 tons in a car. This machine is geared to make 20 strokes of the plunger 

 per minute at an ordinary walking gait of horses ; 20 to 27 charges of hay is the average 

 per bale. So it can readily be seen that two tons can be turned out per hour. 



Size of Bale, 17x22 inches, variable length. 



PRICE LIST. 



No. 9 Press, with Automatic Feed (with Trucks), wei 



Six Horse-Power, 



Add to above price for Steam Press 



ut 5,000 Ibs $550 00 



1,500 " 125 00 



25 00 



