The Harvester world Volume 10

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... test of the dealers' confidence in the organization ot the Harvester Company, and in the complete line of machines it markets. We must do our cultivating, soil pulverizing and confidence huilding right now so as to reap a record harvest of husiness next year. N THE east coast oi South Airica, in a iertile, O intensely agricultural country, is situated a iirm which is celebrating its iiitieth year oi existence. Starting at a time when the natural wealth oi Natal and adjoining provinces was practically untouched, G. North if Son have built up a commercial enterprise, growing as the country developed into the largest implement and supply house in South Airica. George North, the i-ounder, o ened a small store at Durban in 1869, eight years aiier he had iirst come to seek his iortune. "He foresaw the important part," says the souvenir Jubilee booklet issued by the firm, "that agriculture was to play in the development oi South Airica, and it did not take him long to make up his mind to specialize in machinery ior that branch oi the industry." To this day the iirm has been a leader in the romotion oi improved methods, new machines, andpthe iostering oi the good things that broaden communities and enrich iarmers. The iniluence oi the iirm covers the Union oi South Ai-rica and Rhodesia, Central, Britain Thanks (That the International Harvester Company of Greal Britain, Limited, co-operated whole-hearledly wilh lhe Brilish governmenl lo secure maximum food produclion in war iime, is evidenced by the lellers published here. It is not so much the thanks conveyed to Mr. C. H. Burlingame, lhe managing direclor, as ii is the acknowledgement of real assistance rendered. that will give a definite pleasure to the British Company and to Harvester...