THE TWINE KNOTTER

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January/February 1974
RALPH HUSSONG 
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In the winter of 1878, William Deering, of the firm of Gammon & Deering, recognized the possibilities of the binder and purchased the rights to substitute it for a wire binder which the company had been using on the March Harvester. This was the first manufacture of the Appleby Knotter on a large scale, and marked the beginning of its general adoption on harvesters. The McCormick, Champion, and Osborn companies procured rights and began the manufacture of this type of binder and all others were soon outdistanced by its superiority. It remains today the most popular binding machine.

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Appleby was married at Mazomanie, Wis. in 1867 and was the father of three children.

OLD TIME READERS OF THE IRON-MEN ALBUM MAGAZINE - Pictures above are ten of the most prominent agricultural inventors of the grain harvesting phase of farming.

It is a recognized fact that Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the reaper and in close conjunction Obed Hussey conceived the cutter bar with its divider snake heads enclosing the pitman driven sickle to cut the grain with the aid of the reel to throw the grain on the platform in an orderly manner - where it was caught up by the invention of the canvas elevator by the Marsh Bros, of Piano, Illinois to a platform about waist high, besides which two men stood ready to grasp and bind bundles of proper size.

My father was a horsepower thresherman, whereby I picked up various excerpts of the harvesting and threshing phase of agriculture including such great men as Walter A. Wood, M. Manny, D. M. Os-borne, Lewis Miller and last but not least, John F. Appleby. As a student of the mechanics of agriculture, I class John Appleby as one of the greatest inventors of the 19th Century as he invented the knotter on the grain binder. Courtesy of Ralph Hussong, Camp Point, Illinois 62320

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