id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 32702 Casson, Herbert Newton The Romance of the Reaper .txt text/plain 36432 2121 79 make three hundred harvesting machines every working day--one every two "When I first went into the harvest field," so an Illinois farmer told me, Fifty-five years of American Independence went by before the first reaper force his reaper upon the unwilling labourers of the harvest fields. He was making reapers when William Deering was five years old, and before "McCormick was the first man to make the reaper a success in the field," billions a year, if the reaper had not enriched the farmers and sent half Fifty years ago two young farmers named Marsh were cutting grain near the same table, in the new International Harvester Company, of Chicago. "I paid $200 for a self-binding harvester twenty-five years ago," said a it were not for the eleven million man-power of her American harvesters, If the American Farmer went out of business this year he could clean up ./cache/32702.txt ./txt/32702.txt