The Ocala evening star., 1911-03-04

Prof George Frederick Wheeler, who
is visiting the chautauQuaS Of Florida,
telling the romance of the reaper,
and incidentally in the interest of the
International Harvester Co. gave d
splendid illustrated lecture last night
at the Armory. The house was crowd
ed for no admission fee was charged
and those who came were more than
pleased with the entertainment and in
struction received of the work this
mighty invention of Cyrus c. McCor
mack has done TO aid the farmer in
feeding the world. He told the story
of agriculture for more than 1000
| years and how the invention Of Mr.
McCormack's reaper harvester in
! 1894 made il possible to supply the
grain necessary to feed the world Up
| to that time and until Mccormack per
| fected his machine in 1851, the old and
primitive methods Of the sickle largely
prevailed in all countries until 4
! Scotchman invented a cradle, which
helped some. He showed the untiring
efforts OF the inventor. How the father
of the inventor in Rockingham county,
| Virginia. had experimental and failed
and the work was then taken up by
| his son and he never RELAXED his efforts
until success crowned his efforts and
since with subsequent improvements
/ has revolutionized the growing of all
manner of cereals the world over. In
these intervening years some forty odd
devices had been conceived by man in
this country and Europe TO perfect a
reaping machine, but it stands to the
eternal credit and glory of Mccormack
to have made all these ideas effective
Of ra
In his illustrations he showed all the
pictures of the men that had much to
do with inventions that improved the
Harvester; that of Hussey, McCram. Os-
born and Huntley, Walter \. Wood. He
also traced the history of the binder
Of wheat when cut which came into
play in 1878; the immense header and
thresher of. the West and especially
California. drawn by from 20 to 40 head
of horses of mules and which will cut,
thresh and sack 20 to 100 acres a day.
He told how all countries had adopted
the per. and the subsequent inven-
tion of the gang plow. the disk har-
row, power controlled rake. loader and
stacker. all essentials to perform the
work of garnering the crops made pos
sib1e with the harvester He then told
of the immense factories created tC
only in this country but in European
countries, including Russia. How the
Mccormack works in Chicago had
grown from one man and one little
blacksmith shop in Virginia to a plant
covering 1873 acres. employing 5000
men and turning out $4,000 harvesters
In a word the worlds plants cover 77f
acres of land, employ over 100000 mer
and turn out millions of machines He
then gave a comprehensive and graph
l ic history of the growing and makins
= of hemp, for binding twine and the
| machinery employed to turn out th'
t perfect product The same for tn,
: making of wagons to keep pace will
the needs in the growth of agriculture
: All splendidly pictured so you coult
see the actual work of the men in tn
factories. How the industry of the In
ternational Harvester Company ha
j, progressed until its output has de
t manded their owning thousands am
I thousands of acres of woodlands. Goa
I mines and iron ore mountains. from
f which to secure raw material and tn
processes through which the materia
: goes to turn out perfected machine
He also referred to the shreader tha
g adds to corn stalks 100 per cent of tn
4 nutriment of the grain in the feedin:
and fattening of cattle. The reade
4 and those present will see the fore
! going is not even a short synopsis o
e the fine lecture and impressive cuts
e but simply as a pointer to show us 'hov
= the world has grown in meeting tn
needs in feeding humanity and with
t out which today gaunt and famin
2 would be stalking over the land. W
can recall of no entertainment in Ocal
that left as impressive and instructiv
$ a lecture that delivered by Professo
e Wheeler last night at the Armory. H
I has given this lecture 1868 times an
e the editor Of the Star by request ha
e the pleasure and honor to introduc
e the brilliant talker. Those who miss
4 ed it missed treat 1t was inspir
e ational