HIS LIFE AND WORK 



with three times the population, there is always 

 need of its grain at home. As yet, the Reaper 

 has not been allowed to extend its benefits to 

 India. Most of the grain is reaped in the old 

 slow, wasteful way. It is sown by hand, cut by 

 sickles, stored in pits, and transported on the 

 backs of camels. Little Japan is falling into 

 line as a bread-eating country, growing now as 

 much wheat as California. And even China, 

 which is not as a whole on the wheat-map 

 of the world, has recently begun to grow 

 wheat in Manchuria and to build flour-mills 

 at Hong-Kong. 



So, the human race will soon be able to feed 

 itself. It has learned how and needs only to use 

 to the full the agencies that are already invented 

 and established. Beginning with the McCor- 

 mick Reaper in 1831, there has been constructed 

 a world mechanism of the bread, which prom- 

 ises to wholly abolish Famine and its brood of 

 evils. The crude machine that was hammered 

 and whittled into shape in a log workshop on a 

 Virginian farm, has now become a System a 

 McCormick System, that cuts ten million bushels 



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