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From Seville, Mich.: "One place we went to they laughed at us for having so small a steamer (10 hp), but after awhile we blew off steam, and the men came off the mow and hallooed us to stop, saying they could not stand to get grain to her any longer without a rest."

A custom thresherman from Atwood, Ill., wrote: "I ran the machine 52 days, including one wet week, and threshed 32,000 bushels of grain. As to fuel, I average 800 pounds of soft coal to 1,000 bushels of wheat, or in other words 75 cents to $1.25 per day (for fuel)."

The letter from Argentina read, in part:

"In the first test here in the presence of several person accustomed to see threshing done by those big English machines, all agree that the "little Yankee thresher" beats them all in every respect, which any blind man can easily perceive. I saw a large thresher and Ten Horse Strawburner Engine only thresh 300 bushels per day, and it employs 25 men. I feel confident that we can run all those large nuisances out of the country, as with their smooth bar cylinders they waste more than 15 percent of the grain."

Most everyone has heard of Westinghouse Electric, but it seems those who didn't know the company originally manufactured steam engines may have been missing out on one interesting piece of equipment and steam history.

Ever since his days as a boy on a farm in western Pennsylvania, Sam Moore has been interested in tractors, trucks, and machinery. Now a resident of Salem, Ohio, he collects antique tractors, implements, and related items.


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