CYRUS HALL M c C O R M I C K 



country forward with the power of $500,000- 

 000 a year. As one of McCormick's competi- 

 tors, J. D. Easter of Evanston, once declared, 

 "It seems as though the McCormick Reaper 

 started the ball of prosperity rolling, and it has 

 been rolling ever since." 



If we wish to know what the Reaper will 

 eventually do for these new wheat countries, 

 we have but to glance back over the short his- 

 tory of our ten prairie States. Here, by the 

 use of both science and machinery, the New 

 Farmer has reached his highest level of success. 

 By 1884 these ten States had twenty million 

 thriving settlers, riding on forty-two thousand 

 miles of railway, raising as much wheat in a day 

 as New England could in a year, and storing 

 their profits in twenty-five hundred banks. In- 

 credible as it may seem to Europe and Asia, it 

 is true that even the poorhouses in Iowa and 

 Kansas were used last year as storehouses for 

 wheat. And it is true that in the co-operative 

 commonwealth called Kansas, at the last 

 assessment, there were found to be forty-four 

 thousand pianos and six million dollars' worth 



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