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MAKING THE WORLD'S AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.
The Civil War in America did more than free the negro slave: it freed the white man as well.

In the Civil War agriculture, for the first time in history, ceased to be exclusively a manual art.

Up to that time the typical agricultural laborer had been a bent figure, tending his fields and garnering his crops with his own hands.

Before the war had ended the American farmer had assumed an erect position; the sickle and the scythe had given way to a strange red chariot, which, with practically no expenditure of human labor, easily did the work of a dozen men.