. Country life reader . e place ofhand labor in many kinds of work. The first machinesthat were invented for threshing grain were operated bywater-power, but all were failures. At last, however, in1786, a Scotchman named Andrew Meikle succeeded inmaking a machine that did the work effectively by meansof horse-power. Since then the threshing-machine has been continuallyimproved. With the introduction of the steam-engine,during the past century, came the invention of the steam- 242 COUNTRY LIFE READER thresher and the traction-engine; and now we have com-pHcated threshers with band-cutters, feed
. Country life reader . e place ofhand labor in many kinds of work. The first machinesthat were invented for threshing grain were operated bywater-power, but all were failures. At last, however, in1786, a Scotchman named Andrew Meikle succeeded inmaking a machine that did the work effectively by meansof horse-power. Since then the threshing-machine has been continuallyimproved. With the introduction of the steam-engine,during the past century, came the invention of the steam- 242 COUNTRY LIFE READER thresher and the traction-engine; and now we have com-pHcated threshers with band-cutters, feeders, stackers,grain-measurers, loaders, straw-burners, and many otherdevices for overcoming the hard labor and discomfortof threshing. Andrew Meikles first machine would appearvery crude and clumsy compared with those now in use;and how the Persian or the Hindoo, still accustomed tothe old, slow, tedious, wasteful methods, would stare, ifhe were to walk into one of our Western farmyards onthreshing day! M. B. The steam-thresher.
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