PREPARED BY THE DEERIXG HARVESTER COMPANY. 



CONCLUSION.* 



To some of us it seems a wonder that the modern machine of steel 

 can be made so animate and so sensitive as to take the successive stints 

 from a swath of grain, form bundles, place twine around them, deftly 

 tie the ends and produce bundles of grain so perfect in form as to exceed 

 the skill of human hands. 



Though seemingly intricate, that machine is capable of analysis, and 

 the efforts of the thousands of inventors, extending over a century (so 

 slow was the development of the modern self-binding harvester), may be 

 pointed out. Let us weave laurels for the more meritorious ones, some 

 of whom are still living. May C. W. and W. W. Marsh, Appleby and 

 Spaulding long wear the honors. 



The reaper which preceded our modern wonder is drawn beside the 

 standing grain and delivers its swath to the side; for this let us thank 

 Gladstone. (See No. 77.) 



For its reel and receiving platform we must give credit to Ogle. (See 

 No. 80.) 



For its divider, Salmon (see No. 78); Kerr, of 1811; Bell (see No. 

 i); Hussey (see No. 2), and Randall (see No. 6), must receive honors. 



For the reel, the side-delivery conveying device and all the essentials 

 of an operative and commercially practical machine, all its parts properly 

 arranged and combined, we must thank the Rev. Patrick Bell. (See 

 No. I.) 



For most of these properly combined, and with the cutting apparatus 

 of to-day, the jointed finger-bar and the raker's stand added thereto, let 

 us doubly thank Obed Hussey, for it was he who gave the finishing 

 touches; from the date of his first effort, the reaper can be said to have 

 captured the American harvest fields. 



For the automatic rake, so applied to the reaping machine — a rake 

 sufficiently practical for use — we are probably more indebted to Palmer 

 & Williams (see No. 19), and later to Samuel Johnston (see No. 44), 

 than to any others. 



For the first practical binding machine, a machine that wrought a 

 revolution, we must thank the Marsh brothers. (See No. 35.) They 

 borrowed their foundation, that laid by Hussey and Bell, and built 

 thereon the machine of to-day, which carried with it the automatic 

 twine binding attachment forming our modern marvel. 



Spaulding (see Nos. 52 and 53) was the first to invent a packing and 

 self-sizing device, but it was left for Appleby (see No. 63) to produce 

 the specific mechanism that now packs, compresses and neatly ties ninety 

 per cent of the grain grown in America and a large part of that of the 

 civilized world. Carpenter (see No. 50) and Gordon (see No. 51) told 

 just how the machine should be made to bind grain centrally, and 

 Appleby (see No. 63) and his associates showed how to make bundles 

 with even butts. 



For adjustable reels, bundle carriers and many hundred details of 

 construction, and the finishing touches generally, we must thank the 



♦The figures in parenthesis refer to the numbers of the exhibits and the descriptions thereof found 

 in this bool:. 



