[May, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
1878.] 
The NEW CHAMPION Mower. 
Embodies many lew and Valuable Features never before combined in lowers or Reapers. 
This peculiar SVSachine is unlike any other ever made, and is a new departure in the consti-jction 
and mode of operating Mowing Machines. 
be lifted, to an upright position to pass a tree, re¬ 
move any lodgment, or to free the guards. 
The machine can be INSTANTLY THROWN OUT OF GEAR 
and can be put into working order in a moment’s time, and without the 
operator leaving his scat or stopping the team. The wheels are 
wide APART, to stride the swath, and leave the grass unmolested. 
The steady, uniform, and powerful movement of the knife is the 
crowning feature of success. There are but two small cog-wheels in 
the machine, and they are about the size of a dinner plate. There 
is no Pitman and no gearing in the drive-wheels. The 
gearing is enclosed by one small disk or rim, perfectly protecting it 
from dirt. One of the great features of this machine is 
discarding the old style of quick running gearing, and 
consequently dispensing with the frame work, here¬ 
tofore employed to carry the gearing. 
The draft is light; in operation it is nearly noiseless ; and its adapta¬ 
tion to various kinds of work most extraordinary. The operator has 
the most PERFECT CONTROL of the machine when at work. 
The knife will run at any angle, and in any position in which it can he 
placed. The machine will work with equal facility over stones, 
stumps, among trees, on heavy hill-sides, through gul¬ 
lies, over ridges, in swampy marsh and over bog; in 
the shortest and down grass, whether laying to or 
from the machine, and in the TALLEST CROP to be 
cut. The machine can be instantly adjusted while in operation to 
cut low, to take up lodged and very short grass, or to cut over rough 
ground, wherever it is desirable to cut the crop high ; and both ends of 
the cutting apparatus may he carried entirely above the ground , at any 
distance, FROM AN INCH TO ONE FOOT. The bar may 
A1VX> C O XNX3NT OX IV O TESTIMONY, 
faint-hearted endorsement. Wo present a few tersely stated commendations: 
“I would not exchange it for any other, and its price added.”—J ohn B. Palmer, 
WELT 
THE NEW CHA5VSPSON never received a 
•' I cut. over 100 acres ot hay and grain one season, and it did its work perfectly.”— 
J. Shell, Evans Mills. N. ,1. 
‘•I value the Noiseless Action, and its reliability in hard-cutting, among its highest 
qualifications.”—J. Coggeshall, Middletown, R. I. 
“ It is a powerful cutter, very light draft, durable, and completely under the con¬ 
trol of the driver.”— Timothy S. Ford. Lowell. Mass. 
“ It cuts through thick and thin ; does not. choke:”—D. Hodges. Lawn Ridge, III. 
“The new movement is the longest stride ever taken in Mowing Machine Im¬ 
provements.”— G. L. GooDnicn, Newbnrvport, Mass. 
“It works like a charm. It is the most complete and perfect machine I ever 
saw.” —Thomas Monteith. Monteith, Mich. 
“As to easy draft it can not ire treat. I used but one horse on a two-horse 
machine.”— S. N. Sanders. Nonii Sudbury. 
“ It excells all machines in use at present.”— Henry D. B. Freer, Gardner, N. Y 
“ I did not. have to throw the machine out of gear, or stop the team to pass a 
tree.”— Albert Graham. Johnson s, N. Y. 
Wilton, Maine. B j 
“ It cuts where other mowers failed. I regard it ns ahead of all machines I ever 
saw.”—J ames II. Thompson, Bnshweil, III. 
“ What puzzles us is to find out what, makes it run with so much ease, and where 
it gets its power.”—J. T. & J. A. Droneburg, Frederick, Md. 
° “ I have ent among stumps, and over gutters, without injuring the nrachine in the 
least.”— R. B. Williams, Hazlettville, Del. 
“ Farmers, when you try it, you will buy no other."—D. Shook, Rhinebcck. N. Y. 
“I have used a mower (with this movement) four seasons, and the extent of cash 
out for repairs lias been sixty-two cents."— E. F. Mayo, Warwick, Mass. 
“ The New Champion is equal to any emergency. I have given it. a severe test. 
No lost motion, and no perceptible wear.”— Milton Dance, Long Green; Md. 
“ A man will never want hut one of these machines ,lor it will last a life-time. —— 
Geo. W. Harrington, Plainville, Mass. 
There was no special effort made during the last. Fair season to seenre awards of Premium for the New Champion Mower. But. wherever it was convenient for our agents 
to exhibit it they did so always, however, for the purpose of presenting it to the attention of farmers, rather than for that of competing for the premiums. Yet it boie away 
from every Fair and Agricultural Exhibition ai which it was present, with only one or two exceptions, the First Honors—the Red Ribbons. 
The Champion Reapers and Mowers, (including THE NEW 051 VII8*1 ON MOWER), are manufactured by Whiteley, Fassler 
&. Kelly, Springfield, O., for the Eastern portion of the IJ. S.; by the Champion Machine Company, of Springfield, O., for the 
Southern and South-western portion of the C, S.; by Warder, Mitchell & Co., Springfield, ©., for the Northern, and Nortbr 
western portion of the 10. S.; by the Toronto Reaper and Mower Company, for the Dominion of Canada. Sold hy I.. H. Lee & 
Bro., Baltimore, Md.; Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly, Schenectady, N. ¥.; Champion Machine Company. Cincinnati, ©.; Champion 
Machine Company, St. iLonis, Mo.; Champion Machine Company, Omaha, Neb.; and Warder, Mitchell & Co., Chicago, Ills. 
