![]() ![]() It performed as much work as six hand laborers in the harvest fields. McCormick’s reaper was the first concrete expression of a practical idea for reducing the labor of the farmer and multiplying his capacity for agricultural production. It was a diamond-in-the-rough – a diamond that has been ground, polished, reground and polished until it represents today the greatest help ever given the farmer in his winning fight to match civilization’s constant demand for food. Of course, the reaper was crude, but it represented a wonderful idea! The idea was not crude. Its operating mechanism, hand wrought in a backwoods blacksmith shop at Steele’s Tavern, VA, did not work with the smooth precision and more-than-human efficiency of the farm machines now in use. ![]() It was a crude and clumsy machine as we judge farm equipment today. That event was the demonstration in a Virginia oat field of the world’s first practical reaper – the invention of Cyrus Hall McCormick. These are matters of history that loomed up big in our national life in 1831.īut there was one event, at least, that occurred in 1831 of which history makes but little mention although it has had a broader and more pronounced bearing upon human life, industry and prosperity than almost any other occurrence in modern history. International dealers now have the exclusive distinction of offering their customers a complete line of the more important machines and implements needed on their farms, all made by one manufacturer, all of uniform quality, and all backed by the same superior service.Īndrew Jackson was President of the United States the Blackhawk Indian War was brewing the abolition movement was getting under way. The year 1919 witnessed many changes in the International line, one of the most important being its completion by the addition of the P & O and Chattanooga products. ![]()
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