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CHAPTER VI
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Argentina could hardly exist today except for American agricultural machinery.

Ex-President Loubet declared, a few years ago, that France would starve to death except for the farming machines that were turned out in Chicago.

There is practically no part of the world where our self-binders are not used.

In many places America is not known as the land of freedom and opportunity, but merely as "the place from which the reapers come." The traveler suddenly comes upon these familiar agents in every European country, in South America, in Egypt, China, Algiers, Siberia, India, Burma, and Australia.

For agricultural machinery remains today, what it has always been, almost exclusively an American manufacture.


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