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Horse-drawn self-binding reaping machine by Walter A Woods. An advance on McCormick's reaper of the 1830s which left the cut corn lying in swathes for labourers to gather up and tie into sheaves, this machine delivered bound sheaves. From 'The Country Gentleman's Magazine', London, 1877. Engraving.

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Horse-drawn self-binding reaping machine by Walter A Woods. An advance on McCormick's reaper of the 1830s which left the cut corn lying in swathes for labourers to gather up and tie into sheaves, this machine delivered bound sheaves. From 'The Country Gentleman's Magazine', London, 1877. Engraving.