. Beginnings in agriculture. Agriculture. WHEAT 151 For centuries, wheat was harvested with the sickle and the cradle, and these tools are still used in some countries. To harvest the great American wheat crop, machines have been devised to do all of the work on a large scale. It is scarcely necessary for the. Fig. 71. The old way of harvesting grain crops, still occasionally in use on small areas. hand to touch the grain in the entire harvesting process. The self-binder is used extensively. It cuts and binds the wheat into bundles. On some of the large grain farms in the western part of the U
. Beginnings in agriculture. Agriculture. WHEAT 151 For centuries, wheat was harvested with the sickle and the cradle, and these tools are still used in some countries. To harvest the great American wheat crop, machines have been devised to do all of the work on a large scale. It is scarcely necessary for the. Fig. 71. The old way of harvesting grain crops, still occasionally in use on small areas. hand to touch the grain in the entire harvesting process. The self-binder is used extensively. It cuts and binds the wheat into bundles. On some of the large grain farms in the western part of the United States there are as many as fifty self-binding harvesters, and as much as six hundred acres of grain are cut in a single 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 Mann, Albert Russell, 1880-. New York, Macmillan company
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