CHAP. VII. 



REAPERS AND BINDERS. 



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manual-delivery reaper is heavy, and although the self-acting back- 

 delivery machine saves this work, it requires two horses to work it. 

 The self -rakers of the type illustrated in fig. 304 were introduced 



shortly after the manual-delivery machines appeared. They deliver 

 the cut corn in bundles ready for binding on one side of their track, so 

 that a, whole field may be cut ahead of the binders. Therefore, they 



