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Two men could cut twelve acres of grain per day with it compared to four acres a day with a cradle scythe, invented in 1794. In 1840, McCormick sold two reapers at $100 each. He sold seven more in 1842 and twenty-nine in 1843. In 1847, he moved to Chicago and formed a partnership that, in 1849, sold over 1,500 McCormick reapers at $150 each.