American inventions and inventors . machine? And yet there is a new type of harvester that has beenused in San Joaquin valley, California. It cuts a swarth fifty-two feet in width. Itnot only cuts the grainbut it threshes it as makes the sacks andfills them as it travelsover the field. It is saidto cut an area of a hun-dred acres a day, and atthe same time thresh thegrain and fill fifteen hun-dred sacks. Later in the autumncame the belonging to Farm-er Miller was run by horse power. Two horses stood upon a platform, constantlystepping forward but not moving from their pos
American inventions and inventors . machine? And yet there is a new type of harvester that has beenused in San Joaquin valley, California. It cuts a swarth fifty-two feet in width. Itnot only cuts the grainbut it threshes it as makes the sacks andfills them as it travelsover the field. It is saidto cut an area of a hun-dred acres a day, and atthe same time thresh thegrain and fill fifteen hun-dred sacks. Later in the autumncame the belonging to Farm-er Miller was run by horse power. Two horses stood upon a platform, constantlystepping forward but not moving from their position. In-stead the platform moved backward and this turned the ma-chinery. The men placed the grain stalks in the hopper andthe threshed grain came out of the machine, flowing intosacks, which when filled were tied by the men and set asideready for the market. The reaper and the thresher seemed to George the great-est of inventions. He obtained a book on inventions, and formany days he was buried in it. He read of the Englishman,. THE MCCORMICK REAPER. 122 AMERICAN INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS. Henry Ogle, whose reaper, made in 1822, aroused the angerof the working people, who threatened to kill the manufac-turers if they continued to make the machines; of PatrickBells invention, which, though successful, was forgotten fortwenty or thirty years; of Cyrus H. McCormick, the Ameri-can, whose reaper first obtained a lasting success. Most of all he was interested in the account of the firsttrial of reapers in England, at the time of the worlds fair in185 I. What a joke it was for the London Times to poke funat the McCormick machine, as it was exhibited in the CrystalPalace! How the great newspaper did wish that it had kept•quiet when a few days later it was compelled to report thecomplete success of the ridiculed reaper! The trial took place in Essex, about forty-five miles fromLondon. Two hundred farmers were present, ready to laughat failure or to accept any successful machine. The
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