CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



1878 the French Academy of Science elected 

 him a member, for the reason that he "had 

 done more for the cause of agriculture than 

 any other living man." 



From that time to the present day the making 

 of Reapers and Harvesters has remained an 

 American business. An American machine 

 must pay twenty dollars to enter France, and 

 twenty-five to enter Hungary. But try as they 

 may, other nations cannot learn the secret of 

 the Reaper. They cannot produce a machine 

 that is at once so complex, so hardy, and so 

 efficient. When Bismarck, at the close of his 

 life, was inspecting several American self- 

 binders which he had bought for his farm at 

 Fredericksruhe, he asked, "Why do they not 

 make these machines in Germany?" As we 

 have seen, had he wished a complete answer he 

 would have had to read the history of the 

 United States. He would have seen that the 

 Reaper can be produced only in countries where 

 labor receives a high reward, where farmers 

 own their own acres without fear of being de- 

 spoiled by invading armies, and where the 



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