Identifier: storyofagricultu00sanf (find matches)
Title: The story of agriculture in the United States
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Sanford, Albert Hart, 1866- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D. C. Heath and co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Hay Loader THE AGE OF MACHINERY 253 hay is improved and it is more profitable than formerly inmoist regions. Improvements in hay balers, operatedby horse, steam, or gasoHne power have aided greatly inmaking the hay crop of the country one of the mostvaluable that is produced.
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Corn Planter with Disk Furrow Openers We have seen that improved machinery made morerapid the westward spread of wheat raising, and thatthe cheap wheat from the grain fields of the Far Westcompelled the farmers of the Middle West to turn toother crops and to mixed farming. The latter foundtheir greatest profit in the growing of corn as feed forlive-stock. This change, in turn, hastened the invention of ma-chinery with which to handle the immense corn crops.The corn planter and the cultivator had already come 254 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES into use, but the stalks were still cut with the corn knife,or were left standing in the field. The ears were huskedby the aid of the husking peg and were broken off andthrown into a wagon that was driven slowly through thefield. This work, generally undertaken after frost hadcome, brought cracked joints that were painfully soreto the hands of generations of farm boys. Often a canvasor leather stall was worn to protect the hand betweenthe thumb

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