Download or read book Harvest Scenes of the World (Classic Reprint) written by John E. Buck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Harvest Scenes of the World During the first half of the nineteenth century the American farmer was compelled to perform nearly all of his labor by hand. Practically the only implements drawn by horses in those days were the plow and the harrow. Wheat was sown broadcast by hand then, as in Bible times, and covered with a harrow, while corn was dropped in furrows by hand and covered with the hoe. Harvesting, the most important of all farm work, was still done with the reaping hook which had remained unchanged since the earliest known reference to the growing of cereals. Later, the hand cradle in many instances replaced the reaping hook, but still the labor of harvest was too slow. 5 The invention of the reaping machine in 83 I, and the consequent development of the modern farm machine industry, made it possible for the United States to advance from a low rank among nations to the very for front among the world's greatest powers. The rapid settl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.