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Great Things Claimed for an AberdeenMachine.Herman Cook and William Cook, who live near Aberdeen, are endeavoring to interest capital in the building of a trial machine in the nature of an automobile threshing machine, which they have invented. The brothers say that Eastern capitalists have offered to build the machines on a royalty basis, but that they prefer to commence operations in Sioux City, if possible, because of its proximity to the Western harvest fields.The invention of Herman Cook promises to do away with the old traction engine with a long belt which now is used to run separators. The new machine, which uses gasoline as a motive power, is placed directly under the cylinder of the thresher and is so attached that it not only operates the separator but propels the machine from place to place as well. One of the great savings claimed by its inventor for the new machine will be in labor. Whereas a separator man, a coal hauler, an engineer and a water boy are required to operate a thresher, by the new machine all of this can be done by one man. It is asserted that S5 per cent of the expense, power and labor required for running a thresher under the old conditions will be saved by the new invention.“We believe,” said Herman Cook, “that our machine will revolutionize the threshing business. If our invention is the success we believe, it will put twenty-six large threshing machine companies out of business.”
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Pierre Weekly Free Press
Pierre, South Dakota, US
Thu, Jan 31, 1907
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