Show HARVESTER WAS BOYS IDEA suggested to father plan of putting large scissors instead of sickles on reaping machine in 30 obed hussey of ohio x was inventing a reaping machine the first ver ever designed in tills this country ills ilia chief difficulty was the cutting device which was three large sickles set in a frame and revolved so as to cut into the grain it would not work sat satisfactorily A gung son watching tho the experiments asked his father why he did not use it a lot of hig big scissors with one handle fastened to ono one bar and the other handle to a sliding bar thus opening and cl closing them hua so scy instantly adopted the idea substituting sti for scissors the two saw san toothed blades which aro are in common uso use today on harvesters the cutting action being quite similar to that of scissors from the hoya boas suggestion he perfected in ili one week a machine on aich he had in it vain exercised all his ingenuity for tile the preceding two nio years the principle of that cutting device is the principle of all of the great harvesting machines and its benefit to the farming industry of the entire world lias has been unsurpassed by any other invention for use on the farm geoage F stratton in SL nicholas |