Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Farm Implements and Farm Machinery: And the Principles of Their Construction and Use; With Simple and Practical Explanations of the Laws of Motion and Force as Applied on the Farm
Nothing shows the advancement of modern agriculture in a more striking light than the rapid improvement in farm implements. It has enabled the farmer within the last fifty years to effect several times the work with an equal force of horses and men. Plows turn up the soil deeper, more evenly and perfectly, and with greater ease of draught; hoes and spades have become lighter and more efficient; grain, instead of being beaten out by the slow and laborious work of the ?ail, is now showered in torrents from the thrashing-machine; horse-rakes aecom plish singly the work of many men using the Old hand rake; horse-forks convey hay to the barn or stack with ease and rapidity; twelve acres Of ripe grain are neatly cut in one day with a two-horse reaper; grain drills and planting machines, avoiding the tiresome drudgery of hand labor, distribute the seed for the future crop with even ness and precision.
The owner of a seventy-thousand-acre farm in Illinois carries on nearly all his work by labor-saving machinery. He drives posts by horse - power; breaks his ground with Comstock's rotary spader; mews, rakes, loads, unloads, and stacks his hay by horse-power; cultivates his corn with two-horse, seated or sulky cultivators; ditches low ground, sows and plants by machinery; so that his labor ers ride in the performance of their tasks without exhaust ing their strength with needless walking over extended fields.
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