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credit is due to them ami to tlie others who heljicd us develop the 

 machine, for the struggle was long and bitter. Much jirinter's ink was 

 wasted during this contest on circulars and other literature intended to 

 convince farmers that grain could not be bound upon a machine, and 

 that it would be impossible for two men to bind as much as the machine 

 could cut. Notwithstanding all this, the saving of labor prompted farm- 

 ers to take the risk, and they not only found that two men could bind the 

 grain, but do it with half the labor involved in binding after a reaper. 

 'I'heir necessities being thus sujiplied, they clamored for lu.vuries. 

 They wanted to work in the shade, and we provideil it for them. From 

 the beginning we foresaw that bundles could be carried and deposited in 

 bunches preparatory to shocking, and a carrier was provided. At the 

 time the Marsh harvester can be said to have triumphed, inventors had 

 been working twenty years to bind grain automatically. They discov- 

 ered early in the seventies that to bind from the continuous swath deliv- 

 ered from the elevator of the Marsh harvester seemed promising, and its 

 makers, jirompted by their original faith that automatic binding could 

 be accomplished, furnishetl such inventors with machines at reduced 

 rates. The makers of the Marsh were foremost in aiding the successful 

 development of wire binders in 1873 and 1874, and in establishing them 

 upon the market; and when William Deering in succession applied the 

 perfected Appleby twine binder to the Marsh harvester, a second revolu- 

 tion was jiromised and soon accomplished. The story of the forty years 

 can be quickly told: First the machine; then a little factory and a little 

 company. Steward & Marsh; then enlargement of the shop and com- 

 pany. Marsh Bros. & Steward; then further enlargement, and Gammon, 

 Deering & Steward; and then in line, Gammon ^: Deering, William 

 Deering, William Deering l\: Co., and the Deering Harvester Company." 



No. 35. 

 MACHINE A RECOLTER MARSH. 



Le 17 Aoiit 1S5S un brevet des Rtats Unis fut accorde a Charles 

 \V. et William W. Marsh pour pcrfectionnenicnt dc machines a re- 

 colter. 



Le temps a prouve que cette invention etait revolutionnaire dans 

 sa nature. Anterieurenient a la date de cette invention, tout grain 

 etait lie apres delivraison sur le terrain par des hommcs qui suivaient 

 la machine. La moissonneuse avait ete perfectionnee au point de 

 p<mvoir delivrer automatiquement le i^rain coupe de la jjlateforme de 

 reception sur le sol en propre condition, et de telles machines furent 

 mises sur le marche par un grand nonibre de fabncants. Les Mois- 

 sonneuses de Palmer & Williams ( voyez No. 19), de Seymour (No. 21) 

 et quehjues autres moissonneuses i\ ratela^e automatique avaient ete 

 trouvees dignes d'adoption, mais la majorito de moissonneuses de cette 

 epoquc deniandait deux oj)erateurs et six a luiit pour le liage subse. 

 quent. Huit liommes pouvaient done couper et Her de dix a dcmze 

 acres de grain par jour. 



Deux jeunes fermiers, vivant dans les prairies alors sauvages de 

 rillinois, E.U. d'A.. concurent I'idee de fournir aux hommes une place 

 sur la machine, des tables convenablessur lesquelles ils puissent Her le 

 grain, des dispositifs de hausse, un receptacle dans lequel le grain pour 



