. Agriculture, its fundamental principles. Agriculture. MISCELLANEOUS 287 FAR^I TOOLS Use of Tools. — Agriculture, you know, cannot be carried on without tools. The poorest farmer has his hoe and plow and grain blade. On the best farms there is an array of tools — plows and harrows to prepare soil; planters, drills, and transplanters to j^ut in crops; cultivators, horse hoes, and weeders to till them; diggers, mowers, reapers, harvesters, huskers, shredders, threshers to harvest. Implements used in producing the Crop of Corn illustrated on Page 142 products and prepare them for use. Many of th
. Agriculture, its fundamental principles. Agriculture. MISCELLANEOUS 287 FAR^I TOOLS Use of Tools. — Agriculture, you know, cannot be carried on without tools. The poorest farmer has his hoe and plow and grain blade. On the best farms there is an array of tools — plows and harrows to prepare soil; planters, drills, and transplanters to j^ut in crops; cultivators, horse hoes, and weeders to till them; diggers, mowers, reapers, harvesters, huskers, shredders, threshers to harvest. Implements used in producing the Crop of Corn illustrated on Page 142 products and prepare them for use. Many of these are recent in- ventions; most of them have been made or perfected by Americans. The Plow. — The first agricultural tools were few in number and simple in form. Consider, for instance, the plow which is the oldest of all. It was made first of the crooked branch of a tree, pointed and hardened by fire. This was drawn by hand. Then it was adapted to draft animals, such as oxen and horses. By degrees it took its present shape, but it was still made of wood. Then the wooden parts were'protected by wrought iron. About the end of the eighteenth century, a cast-iron j^low- share, or point, was invented. At first American farmers would. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Soule, Andrew MacNairn. [from old catalog]; Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, 1867-1952, joint author. Richmond, Atlanta [etc. ] B. F. Johnson publishing company
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