CHAPTER XII 



THE REAPER AND THE WORLD 



T Ti TE shall now see what the invention of the 

 ^ * Reaper means to the human race as a 

 whole. We shall leave behind McCormick and 

 the United States, and survey the field from a 

 higher standpoint. The selection of wheat as 

 the first world-food, its abundance made 

 possible by the Reaper its transportation by 

 railroads and steamships its storage in elevat- 

 ors the production of flour the growth of 

 wheat-banks, wheat-ports, and exchanges the 

 new wheat empires the international mech- 

 anism of marketing the conquest of famine 

 and the stupendous possibilities of the future! 

 These are the subjects that group themselves 

 under the general title - - The Reaper and the 

 World. 



To find a world-food, -- that was the begin- 

 ning of the problem. All human beings wake 

 up hungry every morning of their lives ; and con- 

 sequently the first necessity of the day is food. 



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