American inventions and inventors . forward,cutting all before it. Success was evident, and the Englishfarmers gave three hearty cheers for the American reaping-machine. Another trial, at which the reaper was timed, showed thatit could cut twenty acres a day with ease. Even the laboringmen realized that the machine would come at once into use;one, who was among the interested spectators, took the sickle, FOOD—IMPLEMENTS FOR HARVESTING. 123 which he happened to have with him, and broke it in twoacross his knee; he said that he would no longer need that. Four years later a trial took place in Fr
American inventions and inventors . forward,cutting all before it. Success was evident, and the Englishfarmers gave three hearty cheers for the American reaping-machine. Another trial, at which the reaper was timed, showed thatit could cut twenty acres a day with ease. Even the laboringmen realized that the machine would come at once into use;one, who was among the interested spectators, took the sickle, FOOD—IMPLEMENTS FOR HARVESTING. 123 which he happened to have with him, and broke it in twoacross his knee; he said that he would no longer need that. Four years later a trial took place in France also. Herethree American, two English, and two French machines were tested. McCormicks reaper easilycame out ahead, with the other Ameri-can machines close behind. At thesame time four threshing machineswere tested. Six men with their flails,working as hard as they could, ob-tained fifty-four quarts of wheat in half an hour;the American threshergave out six hundred andseventy-three quarts in thesame time! We have spent much. THRESHING WITH FLAIL. time on farming machin-ery. We must now leave George to a further study of farmlife and farm v/ork. So far he has only examined tools andmachinery. He has learned from experience, however, thata modern farmer has much more than this to learn, and muchwork to do that cannot be done by machinery. He realizes thatmuch study is needed to make a successful farmer. He findsthat nearly every State in the Union has one or more agricul-tural colleges, and that the United States does its share ingiving aid and information to farmers. He still desires tobe a farmer, but he is glad that it is a modern farmer that hemust be. He goes back to school, eager to prepare himselfto enter the best agricultural college that he can find, in or-der that he may be ready for intelligent farming as soon asopportunity comes. CHAPTER V. SOIL. A LITTLE boat was sailing along the north shore ofMassachusetts bay. It was a shallop belonging to the fish-ing haml
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