Perform gentle stretching to the forearm musculature. These stretches should be performed in a PAIN-FREE manner. You should feel a slight stretch or pull along the muscles, but elbow pain should not be present. Hold stretch for 10 seconds and repeat 10 times.
When Robert McCormick, the father of Cyrus, drew his crude reaper out to a field of wheat in the early harvest of 1831, to make a trial of the invention on which he had spent fifteen years, Cyrus, you may be sure, was more than an onlooker. He had doubtless had a considerable [149] part in the making of this machine.
show was twenty-two-year-old Cyrus McCormick. Born in 1809, the same year as Abraham Lincoln, McCormick proved an emancipator of a different sort. The reaper, invented by his father, liberated hundreds of thousands of Americans from agrarian drudgery. The process of industri-alization, which turned the nationâs economy into the worldâs most pro-