The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . mengine for threshing, and his inventionsbrought threshing machines to a highstandard of efficiency. By 1890 theRumely machine was being used through-out the Mississippi Valley. Rapid develop-ment then continued to take place, andvery shortly the operations of the firmextended to the prairies of North andSouth Dakota and Canada. In theseplaces the tough quality of the soil madeploughing difficult for horses, and theRumely Company devoted itself to theinvention of steam-ploughing heavy
The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . mengine for threshing, and his inventionsbrought threshing machines to a highstandard of efficiency. By 1890 theRumely machine was being used through-out the Mississippi Valley. Rapid develop-ment then continued to take place, andvery shortly the operations of the firmextended to the prairies of North andSouth Dakota and Canada. In theseplaces the tough quality of the soil madeploughing difficult for horses, and theRumely Company devoted itself to theinvention of steam-ploughing heavy expenditure the company inHi 1(1 was enabled to perfect its machineand place it on the market. To-day, however, is largely the day ofthe small farmer, to whose needs the steamplough, owing to the large quantity ofcoal that it requires, is scarcely welladapted. Recognizing this fact, the direc-tors of the company closely watched thedevelopment of the gas, gasolene, and oilengines. They were especially interestedin the work of Mr. John A. Secor, anengineer who was devoting himself to the G*.
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