. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . ] plow. He had no other machines for horses todraw, except a rude harrow and a cart. He sowed his grainby hand, cut it with the sickle of primitive times, andthreshed it out on the barn floor with the flail — older thanhistory — if he did not tread it out by cattle, as the ancient. Farm Tools in 1800. The only farm machine not shown is the wagon. Egyptians did. The first threshing machine had been in-vented in 1785, but it had not yet come into use. Thecradle-scythe — a hand tool, but a vast improvement overthe old sickle — was pate
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . ] plow. He had no other machines for horses todraw, except a rude harrow and a cart. He sowed his grainby hand, cut it with the sickle of primitive times, andthreshed it out on the barn floor with the flail — older thanhistory — if he did not tread it out by cattle, as the ancient. Farm Tools in 1800. The only farm machine not shown is the wagon. Egyptians did. The first threshing machine had been in-vented in 1785, but it had not yet come into use. Thecradle-scythe — a hand tool, but a vast improvement overthe old sickle — was patented in 1803. The first improve-ments on the plow date from experiments on different shapesof mold boards by Thomas Jefferson, Soon after 1800 ap-peared the cast-iron wheeled plow. This was soon to worka revolution — permitting deeper and more rapid tillage;but for some years farmers refused to use it, asserting that SIMPLICITY AND FRUGALITY 347 the iron poisoned the ground. Drills, seeders, mowers,reapers, binders, were still in the future. In the cities a small class of merchants imitated in a quietway the luxury of the corresponding class in England, — withspacious homes, silver-laden tables, and, on occa- Home lifesion, crimson-velvet attire. The great planters of ^^^ wagesthe South, too, lived in open-handed wastefulness,
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