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12, 1931
CYRUS
i /[NT[D
DO WORK
A FAILURE
SUCCESS
EFFORT
STORY TO ALL
USE McCOR-
CHILD
The fact that
Harry Lovell is
Joining with In-
ternational Har-
vester company
agents all over
the land and in
foreign coun-
tries in cele-
brating o n
March 17 the
100th anniver-
sary of the in-
vention of the
Without inter-
where young McCormick built the
flr,~[ StlCCt~%fLt~ real)cr a htlndred
cner~ctic, an active churcilman.
and was wide m his interests. His yea:.~ ago is .%ilI standing today. It
mechanical ingenuity, interes~ and is a small square log building on a
imagination made him an inventor high s~one foundation. ~nside m
of rare ability, the forge, a littered work bench,
Cyrus inherited all these qual- the hammered section of a tree,
ities frim his ancestors and to land the old stone anvil. The walls
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them he added an idom~table will and ceiling are black with the
that transcended the stubbornness smoke of a thousand fires. Old
of his race. Cyrus Hall McCor- Walnut trees stand b~side the snap
mick was born February 15, 1809, and cast their shadows impartially
on the family farm, Walnut Grove, over the past and into the future.
in Rockbridge county, Virginia. Not far away is the homestead, a
As a boy Cyrus went to the Old chaste brick building with ~the
Field school, When he was fifteen, gentle, provincial lines of a sincere
he found that his ,boyish physique architecture. In the distance are
the misty heights of the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
Whatever the present world has
since added to the science of agri-
cultural equipment, all modern
grain-cutting machines contain the
essential elements which Cyrus
Hall McCormick put into his reap-
major contribution ro modern agri- er. These essential principles were
culture. It is also certain that he seven:
was in constant attendance on his 1. The straight knife with set-
father's labor in the farm black- rated edge and reciprocal or el-
smith shop, brating motion which cuGs the
was insufficient to swing a heavy
cradle in the harvest grain; so he
made a smaller implement to suit
his slight muscles. At eighteen he
made himself some needed survey-
ing instruments. Of greater Im-
portance was the invention of a
hillside plow, which was his first
In 1816 Robert McCormick made gram.
the first of his several attempts to 2. Fingers or guards extending
build a mechanical reaper. Like from the platform to prevent the
the devices of others who had in- grain from slipping sideways while
BI~. _~ ~. D.. ADV~ .~ , PA~ ,%~
ling ewes some grain. Oats, or oats] fleient, to build a board walk ~ tO
NO~ OAgO~'~A~ H|~HWA~ ~L~ and bran, about four parts of oats/35 feet wide between the earth al~
A~O HO~ |'r |$ ~X~ND~ A~N~AL~/ tosatisfactoryOne part feed°f bran,Glvemakeeacha verY]ewe! th,e moon.
~ THe: ~T~T~ H|~WA~ D~P~~T~ no more than 1-4 pound per day Milk contains the greatest as-
-~ and gradually increase the grain sortment of nutrients of any sing~
allowance to about a pound a day food material, and is the found
COUNTV AID
especially to nex~ fifteen years, he made other
using the fully fruitless attempts to revive his
that have done scheme. His eldest son was in-
;ure. While no formed as to his ideas and may
r company is l have helped him prepare his last
anniversary to its machine for its unsuccessful trial
the event is in May 1831.
the enter- Cyrus must have started on his
at the Bijou cv:n machines as soon as he saw
.. s attract a the admitted evidence of his fatn-
It Will not only er's failure. Between May and
the progress ofJuly he conceived his own new
es, but there will pr'nciples, built one or more models
~aca of the hat- and developed a machine which.
McCormick got lcut grain successfully. He did nor
breaking work had been issued in England and Frank: "What in the world is a
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terested themselves in the prob- being cut. . _
lem, his machine was pushed ahead 3. The revolving reel which s o v z s ~ o s o ~ x P ~ t c A L L Y ~, * ~ ~ u
into the grain by two horses and holds the grain against the knife
the wheat was to be pressed and lays the cut stalks on the plat- ~ x ~ ~ ~ 0 t, c ~ ~ s o r ~ ~ t ~ o ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o v
,against ~tati~nary convex sicl~leS form. " " i" for " ~ ~ " ' * ~ o ~ L * ~ : ~ ' ~ t c ~ i ~ t L ~ S S
by rapidly revolving beaters. This 4. Platform behind the Kn Ie , o ~ z D ~ ~ ~ 0 U 0 r t, t n r ~ o ~ ~ ~ o
machine utterly failed to cut the receiving the cut grain and holding
grain. At various times during the ' it until raked off. z x e ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ u ~ z ~-~no c ~ ~ v s O 0 ~ 0 S A ~, r ~-
5. The master wheel which car- I,,, ~ i o ,, ~, o I ~ z t ~ t, o ~ D ~ ,, ~ s ~ ’
ries most of the weight of the ma-
chine and, through ground traction, ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~-~/~o c t e ~ s o o z ~ ~ o ~ c o ~-
furnishes power to operate the reel s ~ ~ ~ c ~ i o o s ~ ~ ~ o ~ s , ~ ~ ~ ~, ~ o s $.
and the knife.
6. Forward draft from the right ~ t t ~ ~ x ss e o s t s ~ ~ s ~, o v z t t ,. u s-
or stubble side by means of shafts v ~ ~ ~ t o sv ~ ~ r ~ o. ~ ~ ~ o o [
attached in front of the master s t c o ~ ~ s o v s ~ t o ~ ~, r ~ z p ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ v t s
wheel.
7. A divider on ~he left side to . o ~. v s sr o ~. ~, o s:
separate the grain to be cut from
that to be left standing. ~t,zzmvzo, ~ r~t~x~z~ ...... $ ~,0o0~o
. In 1831 and for several years
thereafter Cyrus had not the ~t ,zo r~ co~m~c, to~ ....... ~.~,ooo.oo
slightest idea that he was not the s~rz . ...... ,.~o.ooo.oo
sole and original discoverer of can't - . - o - - . no,~o.oo
cardinal elements. Actually he or-
iginated them all independently t~o~ mt~zs " ....... lu.ooo.oo
and alone; but in the case of six m.mm~ct- s~,.~ ........
of them he was duplicating prior
discoveries of other inventors. The ~ o ~ ~ b ........ $~.~oo ooo.~o
main wheel only was original with The above chart showshow the, ~=~
him. Even so, he is honored as the moneys that the State Highway[ FARM FACTS
first inventor of the reaper because
an invention need actually be no Department has supervision overI
are spent. The Highway Depart- 7"---
more than a new combination of merit supervises not only the StatesI The common brown rat breeds
known features producing a novel
result, portion of the auto licenses and 6 to 8 times a year and produces
gas tax but also supervises the ex- an average of 10 young at a litter,
penditure of the Federal Aid and lYoung females breed when only
"I understand," began the large the moneys that the counties con- three or four montks old.
scrappy-looking ward politician, tribute to the building of StateI
"dat youse had a piece in your pa- Highways. Some people for var-I Salting cattle and withholding
per callin' me a thief." "You are ious reasons take only a portion of lwater to make them take on a big
I misinformed, sir," said the, editor, the figures and draw from them] fill at the market is cruel and does-
calmly; "this paper publishes only unjust conclusions. In fairness to] n't fool anyone except the breeder.
t news." all concerned we should look at the I Buyers recognize cattle treated in
i -- whole picture and in so doing we this way and bid accordingly.
t William: "I gave my wife a rain- reach honest conclusions. ,, -----
bow kiss when I left this morning." I Four to six weeks before lambing
READ BEACH ADVANCE ADS it is a good practice to begin feed-
Judge (in assault and battery
case;: "What weapon did you use
to reduce the complainant to this
condition?" ~Defendant (proudly} :
"No weapon a~ all. your honor. It
was all hand work."
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America. He had never heard of rainbow kiss?" Wililam: "One that
Pitts' work nearly fifty years be- follows a storm,"
fore. nor of Bell and Ogle, nor did
h~ know of _~anning, who had al-
ready patented several of the fea-
tures he was to incorporate in his
own machine. His sole experience
was with his father's unsuccessful
attempts.
He set to work in the old log
blacksmith shop cutting and fash-
his crops.
a bit of his-
invention, and
~11 be of
of wha~
reapers, the
brought into
ideas came
of Cyrus McCor-
the Reaper
Years ago a ioning wood and bending ln~o
of twenty-two, shape the few iron pieces of tl~e
of concentrated machine, His first reaper was
a problem built in six weeks at most. He tried
minds of men it out privately in an adjacent
of eivili- wheat field on the farm with none
two thousand but the members of his family for
spectators. Convinced that he was
day of 18311on the right road, he set to work
)o~lCk pub-feverishly to remodel it for a puh-~
his reap- lic test. The initial machine all
of the early July had a straight-edged
waa soon to reciprocating knife, actuated by
the sheeres~ gears from the main wheel, a plat-
POorest of re- form extending sideways from the l
~alling for wheel, shafts for a single horse, an
and yield- outside divider to separate the !
reason- standing grain from that to be held I
against the cutter bar, and ring-]
begin- ers to project in front of the blade.
The late July machine had the
was to be freed improved divider, a better cutter]
of hung- bar provided with saw-toothed in-.
of famine; in eised serrations tong its leading
men, eraancipat- edge, and a reel to. hold the grain
enslavement to against the knife.
their time andI There is no record of the exactI
}Pro ~nt ofI day of the first public trial In July, i
the selene- 1831. The reaper worked in a small i
culture of~ field near Steele's Tavern, Virginia.
Neighbors assembled from the w-
When the cinity. Cyrus" family had driven
M~or- do~Cn the valley from their farm.
observed The young inventor walked behind
MILDER...A N D
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of interest the machine. Jo Anderson, the
something negro servant who had toiled with
environment, him to build the reaper, walked,
inheritance rake in hand. beside him to keep
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youth the platform clear from severed
grain. Certain farm hands were
onnlck was of also there, man carrying sickles
His blood and scythes which, with the cradle,
which dared were the only instruments of bar-
the Scotch vest. They may not have un~Ier-
and which, stood what they were seeing, but
made the reaper was, nevertheless, lay-
the Brit- lug the foundation for the future
exiles to emanicipation.
of them Cyrus Hall McCormick, then a
One of boy of twenty-two, was proving
was Thomas dramatically to a skeptical and
came to Araerica
.a .l~:~.rt- moved needy world that machinery could
be brought to the-aid of man. Tall,
~o Virginia and
~r for lndepen, square-shouldered, high of brow,
,son, Who was to purposeful, wise before his time,
determined, feeling the power of
~. or Cyrus, was destiny within him, _he strode be-
.r~. In 1806 he hind the machine which was lay-
~a~t~1~11, a true Lug for all mechanized agriculture.
~2.~m-~PtU'red and , Today the field at Stee~e's Tav-
mn strain.
t McCormick was ern is almost unrecognizable. A
as a farmer. Ro- Paved roadway passes through it;
~, was an a gasoline station occupies the
corner where a side road lea~ts
d owner, away to the Walnut Grove Farm,
operated wires mar the
a smelter, charm of the landscape.
lye was a shop
by lambing time. tion upon which an adequate diet
' can most safely and easily be
Some statistician has figured it built."
out that the lumber produced by
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gasoline economy.--The moment you
step on the accelerator, you will realize
the important difference Twin-Ignition
makes. Let's go for a ride together--soon.
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