books.google.com - Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered into shocks for threshing. Hundreds of thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada relied on binders and the...https://books.google.com/books/about/Bound_in_Twine.html?id=_wFkZgyuGFAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBound in Twine