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Evidence for actually placing specific brands and models of hay presses
in Nebraska during this period can be found in the advertising testimo-
nials of the hay press manufacturers. While testimonials, like any adver-
tisement, are doubtful in their claims for the performance of the
equipment, they do indicate where it was being purchased. The earliest
Nebraska-based testimonial I have found in the Warshaw agricultural
trade literature collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of
American History's Archives Center is quoted in a one-page flier for the
Scott Hay Press Company's horse-powered O.K. Hay Press. The testi-
monial, placed among others from states across the grain belt, reads as
follows:
Germantown, Neb., Nov. 26, 1892
Gentlemen:—The O.K. Press we think the best in the market.
R. F. Seeman
Similar testimonials for the steam- or horse-powered Southwick Press in an
1895 Sandwich Manufacturing Company catalog show that the press was
sold in Nebraska:
Revenna, Neb., Feb 14, 1895
Sandwich Manfg. Co.:
Gentlemen:—Last Fall I bought one of your “Southwick” Baling Presses of J. R.
Patterson, of this place, and took it into the hay country about Whitman, Neb., and
have baled about 1,200 tons of hay with it. Have laid out but $1.25 for repairs. I
saw nearly all kinds of Presses working in that locality and will say the “Southwick”
beats them all for capacity and durability and ease of operation. I am well pleased
with it.
Yours truly, Jos. Simon.
Friend, Neb., March 4, 1895.
Sandwich Manfg. Co.:
Gentlemen:—In regard to the “Southwick” Baling Press, size 18
22, bought of you
through Metz & Agee, of Friend, Neb., last October, must say that it has given me
the best of satisfaction. Notwithstanding jobs were very small the past season, I have
baled about 700 tons. Have baled ten tons in four hours and a half. Baler worked
very smoothly and has cost nothing for repairs. Customers tell me they are better
pleased with it than with any baler they have ever used, as the work is better and
speedier.
Respectfully, J.W. Middleton.
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