Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 227
cCormick had suffered somuch in mind and pocket through the impractica-bility of his reaper that he Avarned his son againstwasting more time and money upon the dream. 212 INVEyTORS One martyr to mechanical progress was enoughfor the McCormick family. But the possibilityof making a machine do the… … Exterior of the Blacksmith Shop where the First Reaper was Built. principle of that deyice was wrong, the workcould be done. In those days the deyelopmentof the country really depended upon some bet-ter, cheaper way of haryesting. The land wasfertile, and there was practically no end of it.But…
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