Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — Ball Bearings on the Farm. [ARTICLE]

Ball Bearings on the Farm.

It is probably a safe prediction that all manufacturers of harvesting machinery will eventually adopt ball bearings wherever it is possible to use them. In 1891 the Deering Harvester Company of Chicago equipped all their machines with ball and roller bearings, and the great popularity of the idea led other manufacturers to experiment with several styles of roller bearings, hoping to apply them to their machines without appearing to imitate the originators too closely. The application of ball bearings is more costly, but popular demand will yet force all aompetitors to follow the lead of the Deering Company.