AREWKEABT 

 FOR HARVEST 



How about it? 



Old Mother Earth, the sun and the showers, the dews and the winds, are doing and will 

 do their part to produce the wheat and the oats and rye and barley that go to make a boun- 

 tiful harvest. 



Are you doing your part? 



Are you getting ready to harvest the crop after it is grown? 



Do you know/*0w you will cut your grain: 



Are you sure you will harvest it to the best advantage with the least loss of grain, the 

 least waste of time, the least trouble and worry and expense? 



These arc nvghty important questions, for a large a hare of your profit depends upon them. 



It's not too early to begin to think about them. 



With high priced land and high priced labor, you need to get every cent from every acre 

 you cultivate. 



Help will be icarce and expensive; therefore, you need a harvesting machine that will 

 save you the most labor. 



Harvest days are few; therefore you need a harvesting machine that will save you the 

 most time. 



Grain is worth money; therefore, you need a harvesting machine that will save you the 

 most grain. 



You can't afford to run risks. 

 You can't afford to take chances. 

 ou don't have to. 



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In theexpressive language of the day,"they made good." They're better 

 today than ever before; they do better work and give greater satisfaction 



And here are the reasons: 



lit The mechanical principle i right. 



The manufacturers of the Champion, the Deering, the McCormick, 

 the Milwaukee, the Osborne and the Piano, by cooperation are able to 

 Include in their respective machines every device, every invention, 

 every mechanical principle yet discovered that tendi to make a harvest- 

 ing machine rfo better-work. 



By co-operation they are able to maintain such experimental shops 

 as the world has never seen before, making certain that every improve- 

 ment and every device that mechanical genius can contrive will be 

 employed in their line. 



and. The material! are right. 



By co-operation they are able to own, control and operate their lum- 

 ber camps, their own saw mills, their own coal and iron mines, their 

 own coke ovens, theirown steel mills, relieving them of the necessity 

 of depending upon the uncertain and fluctuating steel markets, coal 

 markets, lumber markets, etc. .for their raw materials, etc., and insuring 

 them at all times an abundance of materials which they know to be 

 right. These are added reasons for the superiority of theae harvesting 

 machines. 



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an hour or two, now, before you get too busy and talk to any 

 f the International Harvester Company of America, and find 

 bout the International line of harvesting and haying machines 

 for 1906. You'll be interested whether you buy or not. 



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Buying a machine of any kind for use on the farm is not 

 as simple a matter as it may seem. You can "size up" a 

 farm and know pretty accurately how much an acre you 

 can h(T >rd to pay for it, but unless you are a mechanical 

 expert you can't judge a machine in the same manner. 



You have to take other things into consideration. 

 For example: 



You need to know something about the design the 

 mechanical principles how the machine works. 



You need to know something about the materials used 

 in it. 



You need to know something about the skill used In its 

 construction. 



You need to know something about the responsibility of 

 the man behind it and about the machine's reputation. 

 The International Harvester Company line of machines 

 for 1906 will satisfy you on these points and on every 

 other point that you may bring up. 



Bigness is not necessarily a merit in itself. 

 If you're buying a horse you don't care very much 

 whether the man who raised it raises one colt a year or 500. 

 But you know that the man who makes a specialty of 

 horse breeding is more likely to raise a hundred good 

 colts, than is the man who goes at it in a hit-and-miss, 

 haphazard manner. 

 It's the same way with farm machines. 

 You don't care whether a manufacturer makes 1,000 or 

 a 100,000 of them, just so the machint satisfies you. 

 But there's this to take into account. 

 The first harvesting machine was largely an experiment. 

 For fifty years inventors and manufacturers continued 

 to experiment, making changes and improvements, ad- 

 ding this and taking away that, until finally a half-dozen 

 harvesters began to stand out head and shoulders above 

 the others. 



Why do you suppose that was? 



HOW did it happen that the Champion, the Deering, the McCoimick, 

 the Milwaukee, the Osborne and the Piano increased in popularityand 

 sales so much more rapidly than the hundred and one other harvesting 

 machines that have been put on the market at various times in the past 

 50 years? 



There is only one reason for it. 

 They met the demands of the farmer, and satisfied his needs. 



3rd. -The workmanship la right. 



The demand for these six leading makes of harvesting machines en- 

 ables their manufacturers to maintain manufacturing plants of the 

 highest efficiency and to employ workmen of the highest skill factories 

 and workmen which could not by any possibility be maintained to sup- 

 ply a small demand. 

 4th. Their reputation \s right. 



The fact that so many farmers cannot be persuaded to buy any other, 

 the fact that so many farmers continue to buy them, the fact that 

 they are considered the standard wherever grain is grown in every part 

 of the world is sufficient indication of their reputation and reliability. 



You probably need one of these harvesting machines. 



You cannot afford to begin harvest with a machine that is liable to 

 break down and cause you several days' delay. 



You cannot afford to use a machine that loses a few stalks now and 

 then and a whole sheaf here and there, for alittle leak like that eats in 

 to your profits at a surprising rate. 



Go to your dealer now, and get whichever catalogue you want. 



If you don't know an International Dealer write to nearest 

 branch house. 



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International Harvester Company of America (INCORPORATED), Chicago, Illinois. 



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