The Romance of the Reaper

This Romance of the Reaper is a true fairy tale of American life--the story of the magicians who have taught the civilised world to gather in its harvests by machinery.

Fifty years ago two young farmers named Marsh were cutting grain near DeKalb, Illinois. They were too intelligent--too American--to be fond of work for work's sake. And of all t...

For fifty years the Harvester Kings fought one another in the open field of competition. Their armies of agents, drilled in the arts of rivalry, waged a war in which quarter was...

The first American reapers that went to Europe were given a royal welcome. There were two of them--one made by McCormick and one made by Hussey, and they were exhibited before A...

If the American Farmer went out of business this year he could clean up thirty thousand million dollars. And he would have to sell his farm on credit; for there is not enough mo...