THE STORY OF BREAD 



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date binder. Time has proved that he was right. 

 Time proves the worth of all things. Obed Hussey 

 invented a reaper in 1833. But one great differ- 

 ence marked the careers of Hussey and McCormick 

 — a difference of something like a thousand miles. 

 Hussey located at Boston, the center of where 

 wheat fields were; McCormick located at Chicago, 

 the center of where wheat fields were to be. 

 Success sometimes depends as much upon the right 

 location as upon other things being right. The 

 location of a bridge changed the hills at Kansas City 

 info a metropolis, and left Leavenworth, a few miles 

 to the north, a struggling town. 



It took a lot of work to change the reaper into 

 the modern binder, and also a lot of work to get 

 the farmers to use it. It was a long, up-hill 

 fight, and only the hard workers who were hard 

 fighters live in harvesting machine history. They 

 were industrial generals, Spartan through and 

 through. 



William Deering was not an inventor. He was a 

 farseeing business man. But the world owes quite 

 as much to her business men as to her inventors. 



The first binding attachments, like the first reap- 

 ers, were far from perfect. For the harvest of 1880 

 Mr. Deering placed on his Marsh harvester three 

 thousand Appleby twine binders. Taking his 

 superintendent and chief mechanic, Mr. Deering 

 followed one of the new machines into a field of 



