American inventions and inventors . harvest-time came. This was the time towhich George had long looked forward. Now he could seethe wheat cut and threshed. This he was sure was the best work of the when he saw Tomtake the short, crookedsickle, cut some grainwith that, gather it inhis arms, and tie acord around it, hecould scarcely controlhimself. Is that theway grain is harvest-ed? he said. Thenwhen he saw the grainlaid on the barn floorand struck rapidly by flails in the hands of two men, he de-clared, If that is what the farmer has to do to get a littlegrain, then I do not want t
American inventions and inventors . harvest-time came. This was the time towhich George had long looked forward. Now he could seethe wheat cut and threshed. This he was sure was the best work of the when he saw Tomtake the short, crookedsickle, cut some grainwith that, gather it inhis arms, and tie acord around it, hecould scarcely controlhimself. Is that theway grain is harvest-ed? he said. Thenwhen he saw the grainlaid on the barn floorand struck rapidly by flails in the hands of two men, he de-clared, If that is what the farmer has to do to get a littlegrain, then I do not want to be a farmer. Well, said Mr. Miller, that is just what all farmershad to do until within fifty years. But George soon saw a different method. This first hand-work had been merely to harvest a small amount of earlygrain; a few days later the machines were brought George was happy. At last he saw a reaping machineand a combined reaper and binder. This interested him themost. He watched the machine as the horses drew it along. A REAPER AND BINDER. FOOD—IMPLEMENTS FOR HARVESTING. 121 the edge of the standing grain. He saw the grain cut andlaid upon a platform, carried up into the machine, taken bytwo arms called packers, gathered by them into bundles,bound by cords and thrown to, the ground. What morecould be asked of any 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 gr
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