Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — Catalogues by Carieads. [ARTICLE]

Catalogues by Carieads.

A statistical genius has figured that the various manufacturers of harvesting machinery have printed and distributed enough “advertising matter” during the last decade to fill 2,000 freight cars. The greater portion of this literature has been expended on the farmers of this country in an effort to mabr them believe that almost any kind of a machine is "as good as the Deering.” In the meantime the Deering Harvester Company of Chicago has prospered until at the present time its works employ more hands than any single manufacturing plant of any kind in America.