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FAR FN THE LEAD &F ALL 

 COMPETITION. 



SCOTT'S PATENT LITTLE GIAXT 



CORN AND COB MILL 



Has undergone a trial and test for nineteen 

 rrionths 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- 

 stant use for the above period 01 time, it exhibits 



NO P3RCEPTJBLE APPEARANCE OF WEAR. I« view of 



these facts we are prepared to say to our fiiends 

 and customers generally, that w.e 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 use 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 to 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 the lead of all 

 competitors, have been claimed for some of the lat- 

 ter in a sort of quack nostrum advertisement, upon 

 the principle, we suppose, that it is quite as proper 

 to trade on borrowed merit as on borrowed capital. 

 The same advertisement has staled that Cast Iron 

 Mills for grinding Corn and Cob will not last more 

 than two years, and that the cost for keeping them 

 in repair for ten years will be equal to four times 

 their original cost. Very possibly this may be the 

 case with some Cast Iron Mills, but it certai&ly is 

 not so with the Little Giant, as the following facts 

 will make apparent to every reader of ordinary 

 intelligence. 



Mr. Scott the patentee has secured by letters 

 patent a double set of arms in the top of the 

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

 purpose of more effectually pulverising the Gob 

 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— -such 

 for instance as tec find in borroiced plumage in advrtisc- 

 mmts— 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- 

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

 they will just as surely require another upon the 

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

 than the shell. 



Again, in some of these common the legs are 

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

 the event of a teg being broken, it requires 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 tetters 

 patent what he terms a pocket on the side of she 

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

 cither by accident: ®i design it caa fee im- 



mediately replaced by the mcvt ordinary farm han-d 

 and a* a very trifling" cost; hence we are prepa&d 

 to prove beyond all controversy, that the expense 

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

 much fur repairs by one half as any other Mill 

 now ia use, from the fact of the simplicity attending 

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

 rable properties of its inner arrangement with iis,. 

 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 m-ost 

 unskilful farm k and, -places the Little Giant a head 

 and shoulders above any similar invention, and 

 entitles it to be recognized as the Goiiak 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 

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

 able Mill for grinding Corn and Cob ever invented. 

 At a time like ibis when the products of our farms 

 and fields command a high price, and when ic fig 

 important that the farmers should save as much 

 grain as possible for the markets of the country, no 

 one engaged at farming, or who may ha\*e 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 Milks 

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



Manufactured and for sate bn ' \ 

 ROBB3NS &- BIBB, " 

 Warehouse 313 Light street, Baltimore, Marykad. 

 or by 



THOMAS BRANCH & SONS, 

 and 



ROULETT & HARDY, 



PETERSBURG, Ya, 



CERTIFICATE. 



Philadelphia. December 13, 1855. 



Me: 



rs Bants & Wgethington, 



American Farmer— Baltimore, Md. 

 GenUemen: — 



We notice in the columns of your 

 very valuable papers an interested one sided state- 

 meat of the Trial of Cora and Cob Mills at ike 

 late Fair of the Maryland Agricultural Society, 

 and thinking it hardly fair that the impression's 

 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 

 have taken it upon ourselves to give what we deem 

 and what dozens of disinterested persons will bear 

 us out in asserting to be a fair and disinterested! 

 statement of that trial, and we call upon -the exam- 

 ining Committee, Messrs. M. T. Go Ids be rough, 

 and E. B. Calbert to confirm our statement. TTie, 

 first ihi&g 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 Giant (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 bat one horse. The remark was then made by 

 inasmuch as the Excelsior was grinding green com 

 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.com, which was assen- 

 ted &c»j aad the fcarf com pat in, and at \he second 



