March 10, 191S 



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Agricultural Implements 



Railroads and modern agricultural implements came 

 into use about the same time. The implements produced 

 more farm products and railroads carried them to distant 

 markets. The days of farming with hand tools were num- 

 bered. Quicker and better supplies of food caused the 

 rapid growth of cities. One farmer, with power plows, 

 reapers and threshers, could feed fifty people as easily as 

 he could feed five before. It is said that today in Texas 

 and Louisiana one rice grower with power machinery can 

 produce as much rice as 400 men can raise in India where 

 hand tools are still in use. 



Wood has always been important in farm tools, but its 

 importance has greatly increased since agricultural imple- 

 ments have come into wide use. Search for the most suit- 

 able woods goes on as industriously now as in the days 

 when every farmer depended upon his own efforts to 

 supply what he needed for tools. A larger assortment of 

 woods are in use now than formerly because they are 

 brought together from widely-separated regions. Of 

 course, the total quantity is much larger than in the days 

 of hand tools. Two feet of wood sufficed to make a flail, 

 but forty times that much is needed for a threshing 

 machine. Only two kinds of wood could be used in a 

 single flail, but a dozen or more kinds enter into the con- 

 struction of a modern threshing machine. 



To be continued 



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