FIG. 157.—STEAM HARVESTER AND THRESHER.
The wheat is headed, threshed, cleaned and sacked by this machine in one continuous operation.—
Cutter, 26 feet wide; Capacity, 75 acres per day.
FIG. 158.—FIFTY HORSE POWER STEAM PLANTING COMBINATION.
Traction engine pulling sixteen 10-inch plows, four 6-foot harrows, and a drill.
There were exported in the year 1880 about 800 self-binding harvesters, 2,000 reapers, and 1,000 mowers. In 1890 this was increased to 3,000 self-binding harvesters, 4,000 reapers, and 2,000 mowers. The total value of mowers and reapers exported in 1890 was $2,092,638. The growth subsequent to 1890 is well attested by the exports for 1899, which for mowers and reapers was $9,053,830, or more than four times what it was in 1890. These exported machines harvest the crops of the Argentine Republic, Paraguay, and Uruguay, of South America; carry their labor-saving values to Australia and New Zealand; traverse the wheat fields along the banks of the Red Sea and the Volga, and are used throughout all the continent of Europe.
FIG. 159.—A WESTERN HARVEST SCENE (LEFT SECTION OF VIEW).