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King Corn
| Advertisement for the grand exhibition of the McCormick corn binder, endorsed by "King Corn." Features an illustration of a Native American man and a photo of a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. |
| Image ID: | 96702 |
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| Creation Date: | 1901 |
| Creator Name: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company |
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| Collection Name: | Advertising materials and catalogs, 1847-1902 |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6419. |
| Original Dimensions: | 16.5 x 36 inches |
| The text at top reads, "'King Corn' to the Rescue. This year is apt to demonstrate beyond cavil that corn is king. Necessity is the mother of new departures in methods as well as of invention. It was necessity that gave birth to the corn harvester and the husker and shredder - two of the greatest inventions that have ever blessed the agriculture of the world - and it will be necessity this year that will compel indifferent farmers to use them. Every stalk of corn that shoots from the ground this season must be saved and fed. There is no alternative. Pastures are parched, meadows are scant. All of 'the giant grass' must be utilized. The corn crop must be cut and shredded. And for these operations the American farmer can turn with implicit confidence to the McCormick corn harvester and shredder and husker. Experimental days are far past in the making of these machines. The name McCormick on a corn harvester and husker is as much a guarantee of perfection of work as it is on a self-binder and a mower - and more than this can not be said. Editor Breeders' Gazette, July 17, 1901." |
| Agricultural machinery |
| Corn |
| Field crops |
| Fields (Agriculture) |
| Advertising |
| Dwellings |
| Selling |
| Signs and symbols |
| Farmers |
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