. Agricultural engineering; a text book for students of secondary schools of agriculture, colleges offering a general course in the subject and the general reader. Agricultural engineering. FARM MACHINERY 181 Deere made his first steel plow in 1833. Patents on the reaper were granted to Obed Hussey in 1833 and to Cyrus W. McCormick in 1834. The two-horse cultivator was first used about 1861. The first patent on a drill granted to an American was in 1799, but the force feed for a drill was not patented until 1851. The first patent on a corn planter came in 1839. These machines did not come into
. Agricultural engineering; a text book for students of secondary schools of agriculture, colleges offering a general course in the subject and the general reader. Agricultural engineering. FARM MACHINERY 181 Deere made his first steel plow in 1833. Patents on the reaper were granted to Obed Hussey in 1833 and to Cyrus W. McCormick in 1834. The two-horse cultivator was first used about 1861. The first patent on a drill granted to an American was in 1799, but the force feed for a drill was not patented until 1851. The first patent on a corn planter came in 1839. These machines did not come into general use until many years after the date of the first patents. The old men of to-day can remember the hand methods which prevailed throughout the country during their boyhood and young manhood. The opening of large areas of rich agricultural land to settlement in the United States during the middle of the century, followed by the scarcity of workers caused by the Civil War, were no doubt the im- portant influences in bringing r t . Fig. 99. The sickle and the about a rapid introduction Of cradle, hand tools for harvest- farm machinery. The influence of the introduction of farm machinery on agriculture has been stupendous and far-reaching. Some of the direct effects produced will now be set forth. Change in Farm Labor. When hand methods prevailed, the labor of the farm was performed largely by slaves or the cheapest form of labor. From the beginning, the cultiva- tion of the soil has been synonomous with deadening toil and drudgery. The introduction of farm machinery has changed this entirely, a fact which is emphasized by the com- parison of the harvesting of grain with a modern self-binding harvester with the old method of cutting with the sickle or cradle and binding by hand; or the threshing of grain with a modern threshing machine equipped with self-feeder,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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