Williams, Sherman · Boston, Ginn & Company · leaf 93
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… … Harvesting with Cradle in West Virginia Times said that the introduction of the McCormick reaperwas worth to the farmers of Great Britain the whole cost ofthe fair. From that day to this the reaper has received thehighest award at every fair and exposition at which it has beenshown, and has…
