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Reaper's seeds sown in Va.(Local)
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The Virginian Pilot
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April 2, 2006| Author:
Roberts, Dan
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Byline: PROFESSOR DAN ROBERTS, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
Harvesting grain in the early 1800s was tough.
You could grow grain in large amounts, particularly in the rich soils of the newly settled Midwest, but getting it out of the ground was another matter entirely.
But that was before Virginia native Cyrus Hall McCormick produced a mechanical grain reaper that transformed the world of farming.
Before McCormick, farmers needed so many workers...
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