INTERIOR OF BLACKSMITH SHOP IN WHICH C. H. McCORMICK BUILT HIS FIRST REAPER 42 REAPING WITH CRUDE KNIVES IN INDIA 50 REAPING WITH SICKLES IN ALGERIA 56 REAPING WITH CRADLES IN ILLINOIS 60 AN EARLY ADVERTISEMENT FOR McCORMICK'S PATENT VIRGINIA REAPER 64 THE McCORMICK REAPER OF 1847, ON WHICH SEATS WERE PLACED FOR THE DRIVER AND THE RAKER 70 PORTRAIT OF CYRUS HALL McCORMICK, 1839 76 PANORAMIC VIEW SHOWING THE McCORMICK REAPER WORKS BEFORE THE CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871, ON CHICAGO RIVER, EAST OF RUSH STREET BRIDGE 82 MEN OF PROGRESS 96 THE FIRST McCORMICK SELF-RAKE REAPING MACHINE 112 PORTRAIT OF CYRUS HALL McCORMICK, 1858 120 PORTRAIT OF CYRUS HALL McCORMICK, 1867 136 McCORMICK REAPER CUTTING ON A SIDE HILL IN PENNSYLVANIA 144 REAPER DRAWN BY OXEN IN ALGERIA 150 THE REAPER IN HEAVY GRAIN 166 HARVESTING NEAR SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 174 PORTRAIT OF CYRUS HALL McCORMICK, 1883 182 THE WORKS OF THE McCORMICK HARVESTING MACHINE COMPANY 190 McCORMICK REAPER IN USE IN RUSSIA 196 CHART SHOWING RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION OF VALUES BY PRODUCING COUNTRIES OF 1908 OF WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF FIVE PRINCIPAL GRAINS 206 CHART SHOWING RELATIVE VALUES IN 1908 OF THE WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF THE FIVE PRINCIPAL GRAINS 206 MAMMOTH WHEAT-FIELD IN SOUTH DAKOTA WITH TWENTY HARVESTERS IN LINE 214 HARVESTING IN ROUMANIA 222 HARVESTING HEAVY GRAIN, SOUTH AMERICA 230 INDIANS REAPING THEIR HARVEST, WHITE EARTH, MINNESOTA 236 A HARVEST SCENE UPON A RUSSIAN ESTATE 242 CYRUS HALL McCORMICK HIS LIFE AND WORK CHAPTER I THE WORLD'S NEED OF A REAPER