. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . work of hand-rakes. The invention of t
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . work of hand-rakes. The invention of the horse-fork, by means of which whole haycockscan be hoisted into the wagon, or from the wagon to the stack or mow, hasalso been the work of the past generation, and largely conduced to the savingof labor and time. Agricultural implements may be divided into three principal classes, — those 42 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY which prepare and till the soil, those which garner the crop, and those whichPotato-dig- separate the precious part of the product from its refuse. In ad~ser- dition to the mower and reaper and the horse-rake and tedderr there are several less important machines belonging to this second class. Themost interesting is the potato-digger. Several attempts to devise a machinewhich shall plough up these tubers from the furrow, separate them from theloose earth, and deposit them on the surface of the ground, have been made,but none of them with perfect success. The great difficulty is in separatingthe potatoes from the dirt, when once HAY-TEDDER. Prominent among the third class of machines above referred to is thatwhich takes the place of the flail. For thousands of years, even back in theThreshing- days of Israels glory, grain was separated from its husk by throw-machine. jng jt Up0n large threshing-floors, beating it with flails, or causingit to be trampled by horses or oxen, and then purging the floor with a fan inthe hand. The modern threshing-machine is less
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