Parsons Hawkeye grain feeder

 In the last part of the 19th century there was much development in farm automation. For the grain growers, horse drawn harvesters cut the crop and tied it into manageable bundles called sheaves, those sheaves had to be moved into the threshing machine to be processed. The Parsons Band Cutter and Self Feeder company was formed in 1892 to build a device that the company name described, that company grew and the company partners started the short-lived Parsons Hawkeye Mfg. as an offshoot- manufacturing a variation of the machine. One of those partners was a certain Fredrick Louis Maytag, who by 1909 had taken over, merging the companies into his growing Maytag company. 

Below, in those non-free trade days, the company was not ignoring the Canadian market.