The Father of Modern Agriculture
“My father was a farmer, my grandfather was an inventor”, these were the words of my grandmother, Lavonne Holland. She was speaking proudly about my great-great grandfather, the inventor, Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). She also told me, “Not many people know who Cyrus McCormick is these days, but his memory will live forever in the fields of waving grain”(Holland). The most important thing my Grandmother said to me was, “In the generations around that of my great grandfathers, the planting of grain was dependant only on the ability of the reapers to gather the grain by hand”(Holland). Which meant the crop size was limited to how much that was possible to cut, and the failure of a small crop could have meant famine for that family. However all of this was soon to change, new mechanical inventions would help to change the face of farming forever. This paper will only begin to emphasize a few of the major contributions of Cyrus McCormick the man who is commonly known as, the father of modern agriculture. Cyrus Hall McCormick was born near Lexington, Virginia in 1809. One can only imagine how he spent his free time as a boy on his family’s 532-acre farm known as “walnut grove”(McCormick). H
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