Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — Catalogues by Carloads. [ARTICLE]

Catalogues by Carloads.

A statistical genius has figured that the various manufacturers of harvesting machinery have' printed and distributed enough “advertising matter” daring 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 make them believe that almost any kind of aT machine is “as good as the Deering.” In the meantime Deering Harvester Company of Chicago has prospered until at the present time its works employ more hands that) any single manufacturing plant of any kind in America.