Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 471
l possible! There were, as we have seen, difficulties enoughin the way of making a machine to cut grain; butthere was a harder task than that of cutting wetwheat in a bumpy, hillocky field—the obstinateprejudice of ignorant men who feared anythingthat spelled change. Look at Cyrus McCormick when he… … AN OLD LITHOGRAPH WHICH DEPICTS THE TESTING OF THE FIRST REAPER, NEAR STEELES TAVERN, VA., JULY 25, 1831 uncouth, clattering, loose-jointed contrivance—but it worked! Drawn by two horses, it cut sixacres of oats in one afternoon, the work of sixlaborers with scythes. It was as if Hercules…
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