. Elementary agriculture . Fig. 73. The first reaper. much hard work to change the reaper into the modern binder (Fig. 74). The Self-binder. The machine in general use in our country to-day is the self-binder, which cuts, binds, and dumps the bundles in piles to be shocked by hand (Fig. 75). On some of the large grain farms there are as many as fifty self-binders, and these often cut six hundred acres of wheat in one day. To make a device that would bind the wheat was a hard task. Finally one was made that would

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