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THE LITTLE GIANT, 



Tar 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 com- 

 ing in from innumerable witnesses speaking 

 from experience, and confirming what the pub- 

 lic press has already said in its behalf, proving 

 that after a constant use for the above period of 

 time, it exhibits no perceptible appearance of 

 wear. In view of 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 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 Avithout one cent of discount or deduc- 

 tion. 



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 

 latter 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 bor- 

 rowed capital. The same advertisement has 

 stated 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 certainly is not so 

 with the Little Giant, as the following facts will 

 make apparent to every reader of ordinary in- 

 telligence. 



Mr. Scott, the patentee, has secured by letters 

 patent a double set of arms in the top of the 

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

 the purpose of more 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 — such for instance, as we find in borrowed 

 plumage in advertisements — 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 require 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 mills the 

 legs are made very slight and cast fast to the 

 Mill ; hence in the event of a leg 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 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 immedi- 

 ately replaced by the most ordinary farm hand 

 and at a very trifling cost ; hence we are pre- 

 pared 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 durable 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 pow- 

 er, 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 Goliah 

 among Corn and Cob Mills." Conductors of pub- 

 lic 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 reliable 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 is 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 have stock to 

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

 gle 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 



R O BB I MS Sl BIBB, 



Warehouse 39, Light St., Baltimore, Maryland, 



OR BY 



THOMAS BRANCH & SONS, 



AND 



ROULETT & HARDY, 



Petersburg, Virginia. ■ 



CERTIFICATE. 



Philadelphia, December 13, 1855. 

 Messrs. Sands & Worthington, 



American Parmer, Baltimore. 

 Gentlemen : — 



We notice in the columns of your 

 very valuable paper, an interested, one sided 

 statement of the Trial of Corn and Cob Mills at 

 the late Fair of the Maryland Agricultural So- 



