Williams, Sherman · Boston, Ginn & Company · leaf 94
the world, not only to the more CYRUS HALI, McCORMlCK 85 progressive countries, but to Egypt, India, and Persia as well.Thousands have been sent to Russia and Siberia. It would be a difficult task to determine the value of thereaper to the world. As long ago as 1859 Reverdy John-son, in an argument… … Modern Harvest Scene in New York declared that the McCormick reaper moved the line of civi-lization westward thirty miles a year. Certainly it is nottoo much to say that great areas of the West that are nowwaving wheat fields would still be unsettled were it not forMcCormicks invention. It is…
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