CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



towns and cities; and to-day the proportion 

 is forty per cent. Yet bread is cheaper and 

 more plentiful now than it was then; and there 

 is the most genial and good-natured co-opera- 

 tion between those who live among paved 

 streets and those who live in the midst of the 

 green and yellow wheat-fields. There are no 

 Goths and Vandals on American farms. 



Instead of the^tiny log workshop on the Mc- 

 Cormick farm, in which the first crude Reaper 

 was laboriously hammered and whittled into 

 shape, there is now a McCormick City in the 

 heart of Chicago the oldest and largest Har- 

 vester plant in the world. In sixty-two years 

 of its life, this plant has produced five or six 

 millions of harvesting machines, and it is still 

 pouring them out at the rate of 7,000 a week. If 

 it were to ship its yearly output at one time, it 

 would require a railway caravan of 14,000 

 freight-cars to carry the machines from the 

 factory to the farmers. 



This McCormick City is one of the industrial 

 wonders that America exhibits to visiting for- 

 eigners, and it is so vast that it can only be 



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