. The story of corn and the westward migration. Photograph by E. J. Hall Corn husker and shredder. The machine takes the stalks^ removes and husks the ears, and chops up the stalks for cattle food larger prices for the food of the West, the plow inuse in many parts of the United States was a merewedge with a short beam and a crooked handle/fitted with a movable share of stone, copper, oriron, wrought to a suitable shape. In July, 1814, Jethro Wood of New York wasgranted a patent for a cast-iron plow having themold-plate share and land side and cast in three plow was the original of
. The story of corn and the westward migration. Photograph by E. J. Hall Corn husker and shredder. The machine takes the stalks^ removes and husks the ears, and chops up the stalks for cattle food larger prices for the food of the West, the plow inuse in many parts of the United States was a merewedge with a short beam and a crooked handle/fitted with a movable share of stone, copper, oriron, wrought to a suitable shape. In July, 1814, Jethro Wood of New York wasgranted a patent for a cast-iron plow having themold-plate share and land side and cast in three plow was the original of all the plows inventedsince that time. In 1840 the first subsoil plow camefrom Scotland, but by 1850 the American plowshad become famous for their great simplicity,lightness of draft, neatness, and cheapness, and werebeing sold throughout Europe. The crooked stick was superseded by the one-horse plow, and then by the two-horse plow. Hereone laborer was dispensed with and a horse added. 230 The Story of Corn. Photograph by E. J. Hall A sulky plow The two-horse plow soon changed into a sulkycultivator, and the laborer rode. Then came theage of machinery. Within the present generationthe steam engine has been used to pull the plow,some of these traction engines having a hundredtwenty horse-power. They draw behind them asmany as fifty plows, and turn over from seventy-five to ninety acres a day. It was in the fineprairie lands of the West that the steam plow wasdeveloped. In addition to the steam tractionengine we have now the gasoline engine, and it issaid that at least six hundred thousand of these areat present in use in America. The Grain Elevator. We have now seen the greatchanges that have taken place in cultivating andharvesting grain. The changes in the methods of The West the Granary of the World 231 handling the grain for exportation are quite as mar-velous. The farmer to-day drives a wagon load ofcorn, still on the cob, to the nearest railroad siding,where stands what is
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