Harvest scenes of the world . 7J^^f £3oo ^.e. TO IDIJJSrD. From the hieroglyphics found in the mounds of ruins nearThebes, we learn that the Egyptians in the Twelfth Dynasty,some twenty-five centuries B. C, used the reaping hook toharvest their wheat. This is the earliest known recordthat makes any reference to either the reaping hook orwheat. Both, therefore, are as ancient as the earliestrecorded thought — the origin of both is unknown. Sfi Along story could be written about the antiquity of thereaping hook — how this remarkable implement remainedunchanged for more than forty centuries, and
Harvest scenes of the world . 7J^^f £3oo ^.e. TO IDIJJSrD. From the hieroglyphics found in the mounds of ruins nearThebes, we learn that the Egyptians in the Twelfth Dynasty,some twenty-five centuries B. C, used the reaping hook toharvest their wheat. This is the earliest known recordthat makes any reference to either the reaping hook orwheat. Both, therefore, are as ancient as the earliestrecorded thought — the origin of both is unknown. Sfi Along story could be written about the antiquity of thereaping hook — how this remarkable implement remainedunchanged for more than forty centuries, and how duringthe same period man used this crude device to discover newcontinents and carve out the destinies of empires. K Theearly Colonial farmer plowed his fields with a wooden plow,sowed his grain broadcast by hand, harvested his cropwith a scythe, and threshed the grain on the barnfloor with a flail. Today the United States is remark-able for the value and number of its agriculturalmachines and farm implements. This c
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