HIS LIFE AND W.ORK 



McCormick in 1831. New improvements have 

 been adopted; but not one of his seven factors 

 has been thrown aside. 



Fully two-thirds of this industry is still being 

 done by the United States, although four-fifths 

 of the wheat is grown in other countries. Our 

 national income, from this one item of harvest- 

 ing machinery, has risen to $30,000,000 a year 

 more than we derive from the exportation 

 of any other American invention. No European 

 country, apparently, has been able to master 

 the complexities and multifarious details which 

 abound in a successful harvester business. 



In 1902 the efficiency of the larger American 

 plants was greatly increased by the organization 

 of the International Harvester Company, which 

 has its headquarters in Chicago. The McCor- 

 mick City is the most extensive plant in this 

 Company, and McCormick's son who is also 

 Cyrus H. McCormick is its President. In 

 this Company sixteen separate plants are co- 

 ordinated, four of these being in foreign coun- 

 tries. Its yearly output averages about $75,- 

 000,000 in value; and in bulk is great enough 



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