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Feedback  Cyrus McCormick made history in a small blacksmith
shop in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.  With his father's help,
he was finally able to create what no one else had been able to
do: a harvesting machine that would prove a tremendous time-
saver.  McCormick's reaper transformed farming, which previously
had used back-breaking tools like a sythe and cradle. Ninety
percent of the population farmed. Today, only two percent are
needed.  "Instead of manually cutting the grain, the reaper,
which was a horse-drawn piece of equipment, mechanically cut
it," said David Fiske of McCormick Farm.  The reaper cut as much
grain in one day as four to five men. It effectively replaced
muscle with machinery.  But in the beginning, no one would buy
it.  Fiske said, "When the reaper was invented, there were a lot
of naysayers. It was successfully demonstrated here, but it
really took awhile to catch