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there to build the reapersunder his supervision. Here he made a contract with a manu-facturer to buildsome reapers, giv-ing farmers orders for reapers assecurity. Later hewent to Brockport,New York, wherehe contracted witha firm to manufac-ture reapers foruse in the wheatHarvesting with Sickle in… … 84 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS for manufacture and transportation. Mr. McCormick con-tinued to improve his reaper and the demand for it con-stantly increased. In 1847 he sold seven hundred machines,in 1848 more than twice that number. Having associated his two brothers with him, Cyrusplanned to…
