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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
LOctober, 
THE NEW CHAMPION REAPERS AND MOWERS. 
A Wonderful Improvement in Harvesting* Machinery. 
The remarkable feature of these machines is the MEW MECMAMICASj MOVEMENT for driving the knife. 
It possesses more strength and durability than any of the best systems of gearing heretofore in use for this purpose, and 
does away with nearly all the noise and friction common thereto; the direct results being extreme 
lightness of draft, and greatly increased cutting power. 
GOOD WORKS AJST> GOOD AVORDS. 
The demand for Mowers and Reapers with this movement was so great, that the supply for 1877 was exhausted long 
before the close of the season, and in every instance they won the very highest commendation. Limited space prevents 
copying largely from testimonials, uniformly commendatory, thousands of which have been volunteered by parties who have 
purchased or experimented with machines during the summer of 1877. We select the following : 
“ Having used the New Champion in first crop and rowen, on all kinds of land, rough and 
smooth, sidehill and level, wet grass and dry, 1 feel In duty hound to say that in compari¬ 
son with all other machines ever used on my place, (some half dozen,) it is the best. —ST. O. 
Newhall, Shelburne, Mass. 
“ I unhesitatingly pronounce the Toronto Mower (New Champion) the best machine in 
use. I gave it the most severe test, mowing the heaviest swaths and the lightest upland 
with the greatest ease, even cutting through a large hay cock at a slow walk.”—J. A. 
Delamere, Lot 24, Trafalger, Ontario, Canada. 
“ The New Champion gives first-rate satisfaction. It is particularly adapted to rough- 
uneven land.”—S. A. Jackson, Milton, Vermont. 
“ 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. 
“ I cut over 100 acres of grass and grain this season with the New Champion. It works 
admirably on smooth, rough, or stony ground ; the knife can not he clogged, the gearing 
is perfection, and it is the lightest draft machine I ever worked.”— Jeremiah Shell, 
Evan’s Mills, N. T. 
“ Have given the New Champion a severe test in the thickest of wet, lodged grass, across 
deep ditches, amongst stones, stumps, rocks, and trees. It is a splendid machine, and the 
more I use it, the better I like it. It is impossible to clog it.”— Geo. W. Sibley, Spencer, 
Mass. 
“ I mowed 6 acres of rough, stony land in less than 4 hours, with the New Champion. I 
would not exchange it for a dozen of the other popular machines, for it draws as easy in 
heavy grass, as an empty express wagon does on the road.”— Mark E. Hawkins, East 
Wallingford, Vt. 
“ With a New Champion, having a fonr-foot six-inch cutting-bar, we last week cut a full 
acre in an hour with great ease. * * * To see a mower cutting grass almost silently, ami 
without a gear or cog-wheel visible, was something wonderful, hut this was done and done 
well. If strength and simplicity go with direct motion, and friction and heaviness of draft 
are lessened by the absence of gearing, then ice have one mowerwhich seems to surpass all 
the old favorites.” — New York Semi- Weekly Times, June 19th, 1877. 
“ Having used the Toronto Mower, (New Champion), I take great pleasure in recom¬ 
mending it. It possesses every desirable appliance that it is possible to combine in one 
machine.”— Geo. Nelles, Cayuga, Ontario, Canada. 
“ My Machine cut this season 123 acres of grass, some of it in very rough, stony, and 
stumpy ground. It cost nothing for repairs, and I nave no hesitation in pronouncing it the 
best 1 ever used or ever saw.”—J ohn Link, Cayuga, Ontario, Canada. 
“The New Champion is the best machine I ever mounted—L. T. Scott, Bethlehem, Ct. 
“ This season I tried the New Champion in thick bottom grass and heavy clover, with 
five other machines, and it did better work than any of the others.”— Daniel Offord, 
Mt. Lebanon, N. Y. 
“ The New Champion will do good work where no other machine can he operated.”—H. 
K. Davidson, Charlton Depot, Mass. 
“My New Champion is the best machine that ever went into a field. I would not ex¬ 
change it for any two I ever saw, and I am familiar with all the standard machines now in 
use.”— J. La Preire, Burlington, Vermont. 
“ I have used the New Champion extensively this season, and it is the opinion of all who 
have seen it work, that it excels all machines in use.”— Henry D. B. Freer, Gardiner, N.Y. 
“ The New Champion is a wonderful machine. Mv young and high-mettled team tried 
hard to break it, but could not.— Wm. P. Vabnum, Dracutt, Mass. 
“We cut our crop with a New Champion, with more ease to horses and driver, than with 
any machine we ever used. What puzzles us is to find out what makes it run with so much 
ease, and where it gets its power.”— John T. & Jambs E. Droneburo, Frederick, Md. 
“ A man will never want hut one of these machines, for it will last a life-time.”— Geo. W. 
Harrington, Plainville, Mass. 
“ I have used a mower (with this movement) four seasons, and the extent of cash out 
for repairs has been sixty-two cents.’’— E. F. Mayo, Warwick, Mass. 
“ A most important, yet simple novelty in mechanics. The draft is remarkably light, be¬ 
cause the absence of the usual gearing reduces the friction to a minimum. Strength and 
durability are secured in the highest degree. We find (after a personal trial) that this pe¬ 
culiar movement works in the most satisfactory nianner ."—Ameriain Agriculturist for 
May, 1877. 
“ The New Champion, for lightness of draft, and simplicity of construction, heats any 
machine I ever saw. No side-draft, no bearing down on horses’ necks, no clogging nor 
choking. In a word, it beats the representation all hollow.”— J Hudson Kase, Rush- 
town, Pa. 
Machines ”-111 to© ©n exhibition this fall at most of the County, District anti State Fairs throughout the United States and 
British Provinces. At every Fair held during September, where there was a competitive exhibition, from which we have 
advices to date (Sept. 12th), the New Champion was awarded the highest premiums. 
The New Champion Reapers and Mowers are manufactured by Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly, Springfield, O., for the Eastern portion of the 
U. S.; hy the Champion Machine Company, of Springfield, O., for the Southern and South-western portion of the U. S. ; by Warder, Mitchell & 
Oo., Springfield, 0., for the Northern and North-western portion of the U. S.; by the Toronto Reaper and Mower Company, for the Dominion 
of Canada. Sold by L. H. Lee 8t Bro., Baltimore, Md.; Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly, Schenectady, N. Y.; Champion Machine Company, Cincinnati, 
O.; Champion Machine Company, St. Louis, Mo.; Champion Machine Company, Omaha, Neb.; and Warder, Mitchell & Co.,Chicago, Ills 
