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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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ratus to the supporting frame in orderthat the machine might conform to ir-regularities of the surface of the ground.Again it may be said not a mowing ma-chine of to-day is constructed otherwise.In order to adapt his machine to cuttinggrain, a detachable grain receiving plat-form was applied, and a stand for a rakeras well. As manual delivery reapersthousands of such machines are made inAmerica and sent to Europe, where theself-binding harvester has not yet won itsway. These four things were new: His cutting device; His rakers stand; The cutting apparatus jointed to thegearing carriage ; and the Detachable grain receiving platform.Limiting our inquiry to hand rakingreapers it is proper to say that this wasthe culmination. No reaper has ever been made sincethat time that did not have these elementsarranged as he had combined them. Inthe face of historical facts, court decisions
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INDUSTRY 47 and patent office records, printers inkwill be wasted in vain in any attempts towin the laurels from the modest Quaker.The necessities that called for thesemachines were the result of the highhopes of the pioneers of the West, who,finding natural garden spots of dimen-sions greater than the scope of the eye,plowed and sowed more than they couldreap,—more than labor could there befound to reap. Naturally, then, the firstpractical machines of America were in-vented where the great Western fields,which, in their ripeness, inspired inven-tors. On a day, during the harvest of 1833,a group of farmers and idlers were inter-ested in the tests of a reaper about to bemade. Mr. Husseys machine was start-ed, but some disarrangement caused de-lay. An incredulous young man. strongof arm, picked up the implement of oneof the cradlers, and swung it with abroad sweep into the grain, declaringthat that was a kind of a reaper to have.Mr. Hussey, though possessed of a quietmanner characteri

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