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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1882 .] 
r AD VERTISE M ENT.J 
Scenes from the Harvest Field, 
*A Summer Trip to the Country and 
What we Found There. 
WHEAT SHEAF 
THE NEW CHAMPION GRASS 
There is nothing more pleasant on a hot 
Summer day than a jaunt to a way-side 
farm. The world and its people seem to be 
at peace with themselves; the air is filled 
with fragrance of new mown hay, and con¬ 
tentment reigns supreme. 
Off to our right a farmer is whistling away 
the drowsy afternoon as he lazily guides the 
team in their swaths around the meadow, 
mounted upon a New Cham¬ 
pion Mower, that is almost as 
sacred to him as his family. 
He fears not man or the ele¬ 
ments. What a change from 
the primitive scythe that his 
father swung, from early 
morn till night and found 
that but an acre or two had 
fallen before him. 
Now, the succeeding gen¬ 
eration mounts a Champion, 
drives upon the field as proud 
as a Roman warrior and clips 
down a twenty aero field from 
sunrise till evening, without trouble or toil. 
Progress upon the farm, as well as progress 
in the factories, has made such rapid strides 
that we are apt to overlook valuable inven¬ 
tions that deserve more than a moment’s 
notice. For instance, 
THE NEW CHAMPION MOWER, ~ 
a picture of which appears on this page of 
the Agriculturist, has now become the rec¬ 
ognized leader among its class. The mak¬ 
ers of this implement have succeeded in 
stripping it of all its surplus weight and cum¬ 
bersome parts, simplicity pure and simple 
has been obtained, without a detriment to 
the machine in general. Mechanical inge¬ 
nuity, with the aid of a large field experience 
lias brought about the desired result, and in 
this machine we find all that go to make a 
reliable, simple and efficient grass cutter. 
A NEW PRINCIPLE 
in mechanics has been introduced in the 
make up of this Mower, and the New Cham¬ 
pion is a machine for cutting grass that pos¬ 
sesses peculiar points of excellence not found 
on other Mowing Machines. The compli¬ 
cated mass of gear wheels that is found upon 
other grass cutters is conspicuous by its ab¬ 
sence in this implement. The power to 
drive the knife blade is derived from a pair 
of parallel toothed wheels that meet face to 
face, engaging fully one-third of the teeth at 
one time. By this mode of obtaining power 
the greatest speed is obtained without injury 
to the wheels or bearings, besides the pres¬ 
sure is so evenly divided that the wear upon 
these gear wheels is imperceptible. 
FULLY ONE-THIRD MORE DRIVING POWER 
is derived by this new movement than is ob¬ 
tained from the old style 
of bevel gear and spur 
pinions, besides the mo¬ 
tion is directiy transmit¬ 
ted to the knife, while 
fully one-third of the pow¬ 
er on the old-fashioned 
mowing machines is lost 
by friction while passing 
through the various gears, 
pinions, spur wheels, bevel 
gears, etc,, before it reach¬ 
es the cutters. 
CUTTER. This mower is the recog¬ 
nized leader of grass implements. No ex¬ 
pense has been spared in its construction to 
make it the strongest machine for the pur¬ 
pose required in the field. It is sold upon 
its merits and each purchaser is accorded a 
liberal trial of the machine. They have 
been so extensively used throughout the 
Continent, that further comment upon them 
here is unnecessary. 
, BOUND WITH TWINE BY THE CHAMPION CORD BINDER 
Self-Binding Harvester. 
The time, labor and expense that inventors 
and manufacturers have expended to per¬ 
fect a Cord Binding Harvester has been mar¬ 
vellous. No amount of money or hours seem 
too great to devote to the cause. Pluck and 
perseverance are bound to win, and the old 
saying is fully verified in this instance. The 
Self-Binding Harvester, made at Springfield, 
Ohio, by Messrs. Whitely, Fassler & Kelly, 
has become a popular favorite with practi¬ 
cal farmers every where, and this new can¬ 
didate for special honors appears to have 
won and maintained its title as the 
CHAMPION CORD BINDER. 
Thousands of them have been made and 
sold throughout the United States, and the 
large factories of this Company are now 
running night and day to fill their orders 
for these implements. Below we give an il¬ 
lustration of this Twine Binder. Its strength, 
ease of draft and perfection of field work are 
conceded points of excellence. 
THE CUTTING APPARATUS ON THIS BINDER, 
Which is the vital part of any machine, is 
so constructed and applied that the canvas 
conveyor, on which the cut grain falls, and 
by which it is conveyed to tho elevator, rum 
very close to the sickle and thus prevents 
any accumulation of short grain, grass or 
weeds to interfere with the cutting. 
The angle steel finger bar, the Champion 
guard finger, and the best mode of gearing, 
make the machine as complete a cutter as 
has ever been produced. 
The new improved Belief 
rake moves the grain back¬ 
ward and upward, thereby 
overcoming all the difficulties 
heretofore experienced at this 
point. This feature alone is 
invaluable, and no successful 
machine can be made without 
it. The double canvas elevator 
used is fully equipped with all 
m/i /7/ recen t improvements, and it 
r *^ matters not how the grain 
is delivered to them, whether 
evenly distributed on the 
apron or bunched, wet or 
diy, they will deliver it in good condition. 
Hie limited space will not permit of fur¬ 
ther description, but the manufacturers will 
send you their large illustrated catalogue 
free, containing a full history of this addition 
to the Champion Harvesting machine family. 
THE CHAMPION BINDER, RELIABLE UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. 
Manufactured by WHITELY, FASSLER & KELLY, 
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 
