CHAP. VII. 



REAPERS AND MOWERS. 



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quickly than when corn is cut by hand or even by a reaper which does 

 not bind the sheaves, but also because it enables growers to cut all their 

 corn before it is dead-ripe, and in danger of serious loss from the shed- 



ding of grain. Moreover, as the number of men employed regularly on 

 farms has been greatly reduced in recent times, and extra hands are 

 more difficult to obtain than they were formerly, it would be impossible 



