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Title: Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Colby, Eleanor Pfeiffer, F. W, ill Berry Brothers
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Publisher: Detroit : Berry Bros.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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aper at work in the harvest field. He thoughtthat every farmer would want to buy one, but it was ten years before he sold his first machine.Soon after this he sold another and after that, the orders came so fast that he went out west tothe little city of Chicago, which was quite young in 1847, and built his first factory. This factorywas the father of the nineteen huge factories in which the International Harvester Company nowmakes every machine that a farmer needs for any season and any crop. We saw only three ofthese plants, but when we had been through the McCormick Works, the Deering Works, andthe steel mills and had seen all the wonderful things that are done in those factories, we did notwonder that America is famous for its farm implements. People complain a lot about the high cost of living, but if the grain had to be planted andplowed and harvested by hand, I guess the American kiddies would have to eat their bread andjam without the bread. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. CHICAGO
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The Harvester Buildina We Berry Wagon Boys are visiting our Uncle Silas who owns a great farm of fifty thousandacres in the northwest. When we look out over the big wheat fields that stretch for miles, it islike looking out over a great yellow sea, only the waves are made of wheat instead of water. Uncle Silas says that wheat is among the earliest known foods, and that bread is the earliestknown cooked food. The people of Egypt were eating wheat bread four thousand years ago, onlyit was not like the bread we have today. It was called koscoussoo, and consisted of flour andwater cooked together in a basket over boiling water. Wheat was brought to America by ourforefathers, and George Washington was a great wheat grower for those days. He had a millat Mount Vernon and shipped flour to the West Indies. When Uncle Silas and Aunt Mollie came west thirty years ago, this country was just bleakprairie and one could travel miles without seeing a sign of human life. They lived in a moverswagon w

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