Show 7 r. r rr r t. t MARKED EPOCH EPOCH FOR THE FARM I Marsh Marah Harvester Was Wat the First Time Time- Saver In Agriculture cu I Fifty years ears ago two young oun farmers farmer named Marsh Marah were cutting g grain neat near DeKalb Ill III The They were too Intelligent too too American American to to be fond of work for works work's sake And of all their theis drudgery the everlasting stooping over bundles to bind them late into them most moat Such backbreaking back back- breaking toll toil they thought might be bewell bewell well wen enough for kangaroos but it certainly was not suitable for an erect biped like man says sas Herbert M. M L Casson Gasson Cas Gas son in If U I dIdn't t ha have vo to walk from b b bundle to b idi and hump lI like e a- a I could do I twice as ai much work much said on one of the broth brothers rs i Well Veil said the other why cant can't cantwe cantwe cantwe we fix a platform on the reaper and tia have the grain grala carried up to us 1 i It was a a. brilliant Idea and Jf a a new one Neither of the young fellows bad had badover badover I over seen a reaper factory but tl the they e were handy and self reliant By Dy th the tha next autumn they were In the field with tb their r new machIne and as they had expected the they bound the grain twice as quickly as they had the year before So was born the famous Marsh har bar vester Tester which proved to be the halfway halfway half halo way mark In the evolution of ot the grain reaping machine It was the child 0 ol oj the reaper and nd the parent of the self self- binder It cut in fn two the cost of bind bindIng binding ing lag grain But It did more than this It It gave the farmer his first chance to stand erect and forced him to be quick for the two men who stood on the harvester were compelled to bind the grain as fast as It was cut Thus Thu Thuit It Introduced the factory system one oie might say Into the harvest field F For Forthe Forthe r the first time the Big Marsh made Its appearance on the farm |