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SOUTHERN PLANTER — ADVERTISING SHEET. 



THE LITTLE GIANT 



PAR IN THE LEAD OF ALL 

 COMPETITION. 



SCOTT'S PATENT LITTLE GIANT 



CORN AND COB MILL 



Has undergone a trial and test for nineteen 

 months and better, and testimony is daily coming 

 in from innumerable witnesses speaking from ex- 

 perience, and confirming what the public press has 

 already said in its behalf, proving that after a con 

 stani use for the above period of time, it exhibits 



NO PERCEPTIBLE APPEARANCE OF WEAR. In View Ol 



these facts we are prepared to say to our friends 

 and customers generally, that we will give them a 

 full and unqualified guarantee, and as a proof of our 

 earnestness in the matter, we ask permission to 

 give you one upon trial, and if you are not perfectly 

 satisfied after thirty days u>e of the same that it is 

 far superior to, and will last much longer than any 

 other Mill for a like purpose now in use, you are at 

 liberty 10 return it and the money will be refunded 

 without one cent of discount or deduction. 



The particular properties and qualities of the 

 Little Giant, which place it far in ihe lead of ail 

 Cornpetitors^have been claimed for some of the lat 

 ter in a sort of quack nostrum advertisement, upon 

 ihe principle we suppose, thai it is quite as proper 

 to trade on borrowed merit as on borrowed capital.. 

 The same ad veriivem< j nt has stated that Cast Iron 

 Mills for grinding Coin and Cob will not last more 

 than 'wo years, and that the cost for keeping them 

 in rep-iir tor ten years will be equal to four times 

 their original cost. Very possibly this may be the 

 ease wiih some Cast Iron Mills, hut it certainly i-*, 

 not so wiih the L'dtlc Giant, as the following facts 

 will make apparent to every reader of ordinary 

 intelligence. 



Mr. Scott the patentee has secured by letters 

 ^oiemi, a double set of arms in the top of the 

 mill (or what he terms a driver and arms,) for ihe 

 purpose of mote effectually pulverising the Cob 

 and preparing it for the centre of the Mill, which 

 very materially lessens the strain on both Mill 

 and team. In the common Mills now in use— zsuch 

 for instance as we find in borrowed, plumage in advrlisc 

 mcnts — this double set of arms, or driver, cannot be 

 used without a direct infringement upon Scott's 

 Patent, consequently the strain is so very great 

 upon the periphery and fine grinding surface of the 

 Mill, that it will last but a very short time and 

 necessarily requires a ring (or' some additional 

 part) to keep them in working order; and if they re- 

 qaire one ring which is upon the shell of the Mill, 

 they will just as surely require another upon the 

 cone (or burr) which is more liable to wear out 

 than the shell 



Again, in some of these common mitt* the legs are 

 made very slight and cast fast to the Mill; hence in 

 the event of a leg being broken, it tequires an entire 

 new shell to replace it, which will be one half the 

 price of a new Mill. Not so however with the 

 Little Giant. Mr. Scott has also secured by letters 

 patent what he terms a pocket on the side of the 

 shell of the Mill, so that in the event of a leg being 

 broken either by accident or design, it can be im- 



mediately replaced by the most ordinary farm hand 

 and at a very trifling cost; hence we are prepared 

 to prove beyond all controversy, that the expense- 

 to run the Little Giant for ten years will not be as 

 much for repairs by one half as any other Mill 

 now in use, from the fact of the simplicity attending 

 any repairs that it might require, added to the du- 

 rable properties of its inner arrangement with its 

 double set of arms and immense grinding surface 

 The amount of work it can do with a comparatively 

 small power, the superiority of its work when done, 

 and its capability of being managed by the most 

 unskilful farm, hand, places the Little Giant a head 

 and shoulders above any similar invention, and 

 entitles it to be recognized as the Gvliah among 

 Corn and Cob Mills. Conductors of public journaLs 

 who have seen it in operation by the side of others, 

 and all farmers who have had it in use for any- 

 time, proclaim it to be the only effective and reli- 

 able Mill for grinding Corn and Cob ever invented. 

 At a time like this when the products of our farms 

 and fields command a high price, and when it i&- 

 important that the farmers should save as much 

 grain as possible for the markets of the conntry, no 

 one engaged at farming, or who may have stock to 

 feed, should be without one of these Mills a single- 

 week. A trial is all that is necessary to show that 

 it possesses advantages over all other similar Mills 

 now in use, and to commend it to universal favor. 

 Manufactured and for sale by 

 ROBB1NS & BI BB, 

 Warehouse 39 Light street, Baltimore, Maryland, 

 or bv 



THOMAS BRANCH & SONS, 

 and 



ROULETT & HARDY, 



Petersburg. Va. 



CERTIFICATE. 



Philadelphia, December 13, 



1855, 



Messrs Sands & WOrthington, 



American Farmer,— Baltimore, Md. 

 Gentlemen : — 



We notice in the columns of your 

 very valuable paper, an interested one sided state- 

 ment of the Trial of Corn and Cob Mills at the 

 late Pair of the Maryland Agricultural Society, 

 and thinking it hardly fair that the impressions 

 which are intended to be conveyed by the author of 

 the advertisement, should go broad cast to the entire 

 farming community without some comment, we 

 j have taken it upon ourselves to give what we deem 

 j and what dozens of disinterested persons will bear 

 I us out in asserting to be a fair and disinterested 

 j statement of that trial, and we call upon the exain- 

 I ining Committee, Messrs. M. T. Goldsborough, 

 and E. B. Calbert to confirm our statement. The 

 first thing that drew our attention to the trial was 

 the appearance of the gentlemen (committee) at the 

 location of the Excelsior or Leavitt's Mill (which 

 we must admit ground very prettily) having two 

 horses attached; the committee then went to the 

 Scott's Little Gianr (or Messrs. Robinson & 

 Bibb's Mill) which required one minute and a quar- 

 ter longer to produce the same amount of meal 

 some one present that the trial was hardly fair 

 with but one horse. The remark was then made by 

 inasmuch as the Excelsior was grinding green corn 

 with two horses, and the Little Giant was grinding 

 hard flinty corn with but one horse : the committee 

 having satisfied themselves of that fact, requested 

 Mr. Leavitt to try the hard corn, which was assen- 

 ted to, and the hard corn put in, and at the second' 



