CHAP. VIT. 



REAPERS AND BINDERS. 



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American manufacturers, to bind with wire. This was objectionable, 

 not only because the wire was somewhat troublesome to cut when 



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threshing was going on, but also, and more seriously, because pieces 

 of wire were apt to get into the straw, and to be cut up when chaff was 



