PREPARF.n BY THE DEERING HARVESTER COMPANY. 



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platform the binders stood. At the beginning of the flow one would take 

 a wisp and prepare his band. When a sufficient amount of grain had 

 accumulated, he placed the hand carrying the band through the swath, 

 and the other around the side of the gavel nearest him, swung the mass 

 to the table bv his side, and there completed the operation of binding. 



Inventors of automatic binders 

 at once saw that the proper thing 

 to do was to thrust the band-carry- 

 ing device through the stream of 

 grain, in imitation of the action of 

 the hand of the operator upon the 

 Marsh harvester, bind the bundle, 

 and then separate it from the flow- 

 ing swath. 



The first attempts promised 

 success. A few automatic binders 

 were successful in the year 1874. 

 In 1878 the Appleby twine binder 

 was perfected. It was carried to 

 success upon the shoulders of a 

 Marsh harvester by William Deer- 

 nig. 



It was at first the custom to 

 provide the Marsh harvesters with 

 tables for manual binding that 

 might be removed for the reception 

 of the automatic binder. 



The automatic binder has now 

 become the rule and the binding 

 tables the exception, but it remains 

 true that the Marsh harvester 

 wrought a revolution whereby three 

 men could do the w^ork of the eight 



Iw^'* J^SSr- -% required by the reaper, and the 



^ I automatic binder which it now car- 



^^^^^ ries through the fields of the world 



reduced the number to one. The 



Marsh harvester was provided with 



a bundle carrier, by means of which 



bunches of bundles might be 



dropped in suitable position for 



shocking, and this feature is used 



by all manufacturers. 



A word of history, from the pen of the Honorable Senator Marsh, 



one of the inventors of the Marsh harvester, will not be considered out 



of place when the immense importance of the invention is taken into 



account : 



"Very naturally I feel proud of the position the Deering Harvester 

 Company occupies among manufacturers of harvesting machinery, because 

 of the fact that it is the lineal descendant of the concern founded by my 

 brother and myself in connection with Lewis and George Steward, in 

 Piano, in 1863^ for the manufacture of the Marsh harvester. Great 



MARSH HARVESTER. 



