. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. eds remain. Similarly all the birds of the farm, except the turkey, wereintroduced from Europe. Thus while America gave severalhighly useful plants to the world, it has given but one do-mesticated animal, the turkey. Agricultural Implements.—Farming in former centurieswas a very laborious occupation. None of the labor-saving machines now in use were thenknown, and the severest handlabor was necessary. Grass wascut with the scythe, grain withthe sickle, and threshing wasdone on the barn floor with theflail, or the gr
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. eds remain. Similarly all the birds of the farm, except the turkey, wereintroduced from Europe. Thus while America gave severalhighly useful plants to the world, it has given but one do-mesticated animal, the turkey. Agricultural Implements.—Farming in former centurieswas a very laborious occupation. None of the labor-saving machines now in use were thenknown, and the severest handlabor was necessary. Grass wascut with the scythe, grain withthe sickle, and threshing wasdone on the barn floor with theflail, or the grain was troddenout by the feet of animals. Theplough in use was a rude affair, with iron plates roughly fas-tened on the mould-board. Results of Invention.—All this has been overcome bythe inventive genius of our people. Reaping, mowing, andharvesting ma-chines now domost of thework of thefields. The seedis planted, thegrain cut andbound intosheaves, by ma-chines which seem to act almost with human intelligencaMachines thresh out the grain, swift-running railroad trains. Colonial plough.
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