America gets its results by using a minimum of human labor and letting machinery do the work.

Thus America's methods are superior not only from the standpoint of economics but of social progress.

All nations, including Germany, use our machinery, but none to the extent that prevails on the North American Continent.
Perhaps McCormick's greatest achievement is that his machine has banished famine wherever it is extensively used, at least in peace times.

Before the reaper appeared existence, even in the United States, was primarily a primitive struggle for bread.

The greatest service of the harvester has been that it has freed the world--unless it is a world distracted by disintegrating war--from a constant anxiety concerning its food supply.