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SOUTHERN PLANTER.— ADVERTISING SHEET. 



BOBBINS & BIBB 



PROPRIETORS OF 



THE BALTIMORE STOVE HOUSE 



AND MANUFACTURERS OF 



SCOTT'S PATENT LITTLE GIANT CORN 

 AND COB MILL. 



Patented May 16, '54 — Copyright secured March 1. '55* 

 NOTICE. — Little Giant — Any infringement 

 of the patent of the Little Giant Corn and Cob 

 Crusher, either by selling into our territory, or 

 attempting to* infringe the patent, will be pros- 

 ecuted to the utmost extent of the law. 



ROBBINS & BIBB, 

 Light Street,' near Pratt, Baltimore. 



TOWN AND COUNTY RIGHTS FOR SALE. 



LITTLE GIANT— The subscribers having 

 secured the right from Lyman Scott to manu- 

 facture and sell the Corn and Cob Mill, known 

 as the Little Giant, are now prepared to execute 

 promptly, in a thorough workmanlike manner, 

 all orders, wholesale and retail, of said Mills. 

 The reputation won by these Mills for the past 

 year throughout the United States is a sufficient 

 guarantee of its utility and established charac- 

 ter. It has cost a large amount of money and 

 labor to bring the Mill to its present state of 

 perfection, and is now offered to the Planters, 

 Stock Feeders and others as a complete article 

 of mechanism, simple and practical in use, du- 

 rable in construction. It is pronounced by eve- 

 ry body to the most important article of the 

 kind now in use, not only well adapted for 

 grinding cob meal for stock, but grits of .fine 

 hominy for the table, &c. The Little Giant 

 received the first premiums at the late Agricul- 

 tural Fairs of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland 

 and other States, and that in the most compli- 

 mentary manner. These Mills are guaranteed 

 in ever}^ respect. The No. 1 Mill is warranted 

 to grind eight bushels of feed per hour with one 

 horse, and offered at the low price of $30, No. 

 2 Mill at $40, grinds 10 to 12 bushels per hour, 

 with one horse, No. 3 Mill at $50 grinds 15 to 

 18 bushels per hour, and No. 4 Mill at $60 

 grinds 20 to 25 bushels per hour with two 

 horses. Less 5 per cent, for cash. 



[Extract from a Western Paper.] 

 The Little Giant Patent Corn and Cob 

 Mill. — We would call the attention of the farm- 

 ing community, or those who have stock to feed 

 or fatten, to the above mill, confident that all 

 who consult economy and practice good husban- 



dry, will avail themselves of the use of an im- 

 plement, the merits of which have been tested 

 by leading Agriculturists throughout the Union. 

 " The Little Giant," quoth one of our towns- 

 men, " is no Yankee tool, but begotten in the 

 South-west, at St. Louis, Mo., born and bred in 

 the biggest corn-field of the biggest corn of the 

 great American bottom — hence its natural pro- 

 clivity and rapacity to chaw up ear corn and to 

 do things wholesale after the western fashion." 

 We notice in the Agricultural papers from that 

 quarter, and all along shore, that the Little Gi- 

 ant has ground its way from the Mississippi to 

 the Atlantic, taking the first premiums at State 

 and County Fairs and Mechanics' Institutes of 

 Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, 

 Pennsylvania, Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, New 

 Jersey and Maryland ; and has now got right 

 among the down easters, masticating the hard, 

 flinty corn of that country to their infinite de- 

 light and satisfaction. 



An Agricultural Improvement of the South- 

 west, that the invention and skill of the East 

 acknowledges superior to any thing of the kind 

 got up, and is sought after by the intelligent 

 discerning farmers of that region, must have 

 substantial merits. Indeed, to commend itself 

 to those who are so well qualified to judge, who 

 from their circumstances and education, are led, 

 if not compelled, to practice an economy in all 

 the operations of the farm, which would appear 

 with us to amount almost to stinginess, must 

 combine advantages that adapts it in the highest 

 degree to meet the purposes intended. 



Messrs. Robbins & Bibb, of the Baltimore 

 Stove House, 39 Light street, we understand 

 have the patent right for some ten or a dozen 

 States. — 



Blenheim, near Carter's Bridge P. O., ) 

 Albemarle Co. Va., Oct. 5, 1855. j 

 Messrs. Robbins 8f Bibb, Baltimore : 



Gentlemen — I mentioned to you when in your 

 manufactory last year, that I would give my 

 opinion of the Little Giant Corn and Cob Crush- 

 er, after I had made a fair trial of the one sent 

 me, this I now proceed to do, as an acj of jus- 

 tice to all interested in its success. I have had 

 it in operation a year and find it quite equal to 

 my anticipations, if not beyond them. With 

 two mules it will crush well upwards of fifteen 

 bushels of corn on the ears in the hour, easy 

 work. If needful it might be made to reach 18. 

 It aolds one-fifth to the amount of food, to say 

 nothing of the toll saved for grinding at a neigh- 

 boring mill, four miles off, and the service of a 

 man and a pair of oxen the entire day each trip. 

 Indeed I can safely say, that it has saved me in 

 the last twelve months four-fold its cost, with 

 com at $5 and $6 a barrel, sold for in this 

 neighborhood. I intended getting a machine to 

 crush Guano this fall, but was disappointed, and 

 I made an experiment with the Little Giant, and 

 found it to answer admirably. With one horse 

 it ground or crushed 15 to 20 bushels in the 

 hour, and did it well. I shall of course save the 

 ipriee of the crusher. Upon the whole, I regard 

 iit as a most efficient and valuable machine, and 



