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Scott Supply Co. - New and Used Farm Equipment - Mitchell, South Dakota
Description
Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented a reaping machine that stands as the symbol of the mechanical revolution in agriculture. McCormick saw the need for this machine and made the most of it. There were too few farmhands to do the harvesting, so a substitute for hand labor had to be found, and the great stretches of flat, stoneless prairie presented an ideal terrain for the mechanical reaper.
McCormick built his first reaper and demonstrated it in 1831 and patented an improved model in 1834. In 1847, he went to Chicago and set up a factory to manufacture reapers. Throughout years of court action and by buying others' patent rights, he established the superiority of his machines and made his company the leader. In 1902, the inventor's company merged with four other leading agricultural machinery manufacturers to form International Harvester Company. This company entered the tractor business in 1903 with an International stationary engine mounted on a chassis. The pulley wheel on the engine engaged a pulley on the chassis, giving a friction drive to the tractor. By 1909, Harvester ranked as the fourth-largest corporation in America and the largest farm equipment monopoly in the world.
Lewis Emmanuel Scott (1884-1965) was born and raised a farmer in Storla, South Dakota, a small community approximately twenty-five miles from the present Scott Supply Company, Incorporated, located just west of Mitchell.
Contact
Administrative:
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- Woonsocket SD
- US 57385
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- 605-796-4411
Registrant:
- Scott Supply Co
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- Mitchell SD
- US 57301
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