. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. A CATERPILLAR TRAIN MACHINE FARMING 263 There was a Caterpillar 45 driven by an electric motor, with its steer-ing gear set so that it turned continuously in a small circle to show how easilyit could be handled. There was a small Caterpillar tractor for the farmer,an 18, so mounted as to show how it could work between the trees of anorchard. And this brings us to the climax in harvest
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. A CATERPILLAR TRAIN MACHINE FARMING 263 There was a Caterpillar 45 driven by an electric motor, with its steer-ing gear set so that it turned continuously in a small circle to show how easilyit could be handled. There was a small Caterpillar tractor for the farmer,an 18, so mounted as to show how it could work between the trees of anorchard. And this brings us to the climax in harvesting machinery: the motor-driven combined harvester, which propels itself, and in one transit of thefield cuts the grain, threshes it, recleans it, sacks it, and dumps the straweither in windrows or piles. This machine would enable four men to cutand thresh as much as 600 could with scythes and flails a century peculiar to the West produced the combined harvester,for its best use was for grain that would stand until ripe without Swathsshelling out of the head, and that could be cut perfectly dry. TheHolt Company had motor harvesters that would make 36-foot cuts througha field of grain, and o
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