. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. S P3 eg ao >> Ho oo do <D 32 MACHINES FOR HAYING. For ages past the scythe has been an emblem of time. As thegrass falls before the mowers scythe, is an old and familiar quo-tation. The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth xxvii, 25. For the waters of Mmrim shall be desolate,for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no greenthing. Isaiah xv, 6, These quotations indicate that the subjectis very old. Hay making has, doubtless, given employment tomany people long before history bega
. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. S P3 eg ao >> Ho oo do <D 32 MACHINES FOR HAYING. For ages past the scythe has been an emblem of time. As thegrass falls before the mowers scythe, is an old and familiar quo-tation. The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth xxvii, 25. For the waters of Mmrim shall be desolate,for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no greenthing. Isaiah xv, 6, These quotations indicate that the subjectis very old. Hay making has, doubtless, given employment tomany people long before history began to be recorded. In a recentwork on American Agricultural Implements,* the author (R. L. Ardrey), says of the Pre-historicScythe, shown at Fig. 19 : Thescythe of the pre-historic Lacus-trine inhabitant of Switzerlandwas curved, and was attached toa handle, forming an implementsubstantially the same as we nowFig. i9.—Pre-historic scythe. use, and that likewise,
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