No More Tiresome Hay Pitching on this Farm, where Hay Loaders Elevate the Hay to the Men on the Wagons
The small kerosene tractor has taken the place of horses and is drawing two wagons at a time.
In 1875 McCormick began putting out harvesters of the Marsh type. Of straight Marsh harvesters—carrying a man to bind—there had been made up to and including 1879 over 100,000, of which about two-thirds had been produced by the Marsh combination and the rest by outsiders.
The Self-Binder.
The development of the automatic binder followed quickly after the introduction of the Marsh harvester, although attempts were made to perfect this machine as early as 1850.
A Modern Grain Binder in Heavy Oats