CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



cradlers, rakers, binders every one except 

 the driver, and he (or she) was to have the glory 

 of riding on the triumphal chariot of a machine 

 that did all the work itself. 



"There were ten men working in my wheat- 

 field in the old days," said an Illinois farmer. 

 "But to-day our hired girl climbs upon the 

 spring seat of a self-binder and does the 

 whole business." 



McCormick was not the first to make one of 

 these magical machines. There was an able 

 and enterprising manufacturer in New York 

 State, Walter A. Wood, who in 1873 had made 

 three Withington binder;:, under the super- 

 vision of Sylvanus D. Locke, who had been a 

 co-worker with Withington. McCormick had 

 given Wood his start, as early as 1853, by selling 

 him a license to make Reapers; and Wood, by 

 his high personal qualities, had built up a most 

 extensive business. But McCormick was the 

 first to make self-binders upon a large scale. 

 He made 50,000 of the Withington machines, 

 and pushed them with irresistible energy. 



He originated a new method of advertising 



