78 HARVESTING CROPS 



PRACTICAL EXERCISES 



1. Write a composition on the development of harvesting 

 machinery from the reaping hook to the self-binder, and illus- 

 trate with pictures that you have collected of harvesting 

 machinery. 



2. Explain how wheat or oats is thrashed. 



REFERENCES 



Selected Readings: Scythe Song, Andrew Lang; The Soli- 

 tary Reaper, William Wordsworth. 



