HIS LIFE AND WORK 



average of intelligence and enterprise is as 

 high in the country as in the city. 



In 1898 Europe had become so dependent 

 upon America for its reaping machinery that 

 22,000 machines were shipped from the Mc- 

 Cormick plant alone so many that a fleet 

 of twelve vessels had to be chartered to carry 

 them. There are now as many American 

 Reapers and Harvesters in Europe as can do 

 the work of 12,000,000 men. Of all American 

 machines exported, the Reaper is at the head 

 of the list. It has been the chief pathfinder 

 for our foreign trade. Four-fifths of all the 

 harvesting machinery in the world is made in 

 the United States; and one-third, perhaps 

 more, in the immense factory-city that Cyrus 

 H. McCormick founded in Chicago in 1847. 



It was McCormick's most solid satisfaction, 

 in his later life, to see foreign nations, one by 

 one, adopt his invention and move up out of 

 the Famine Zone. No news was at any time 

 more welcome to him than the tidings that a 

 new territory had been entered. And although 

 the foreign trade has been vastly multiplied in 



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