The Machinery of Corn Picking and Shelling - With Information on the Equipment and Methods of Corn Picking and Shelling
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The Machinery of Corn Picking and Shelling - With Information on the Equipment and Methods of Corn Picking and Shelling - Read Books Ltd.
The Machinery of
Corn Picking and
Shelling
With Information on the Equipment
and Methods of Corn Picking and
Shelling
By
Roy Bainer
R. A. Kepner
E. L. Barger
Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.
This book is copyright and may not be
reproduced or copied in any way without
the express permission of the publisher in writing
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Contents
Agricultural Tools and Machinery
Corn Picking and Shelling
Agricultural Tools and Machinery
Farming has an incredibly long history. Beginning around 3000 BC, nomadic pastoralism, with societies focused on the care of livestock for subsistence, appeared independently in several areas in Europe and Asia. This form of farming utilised basic implements, but with the rise of arable farming, agricultural tools became more intricate. Between 2500 and 2000 BC, the simplest form of the plough, called the ard, spread throughout Europe, replacing the hoe (simply meaning a ‘digging stick’). Whilst this may not seem like a revolutionary change in itself, the implications of such developments were incredibly far reaching. This change in equipment significantly increased cultivation ability, and affected the demand for land, as well as ideas about property, inheritance and family rights.
Tools such as hoes were light and transportable; a substantial benefit for nomadic societies who moved on once the soil’s nutrients were depleted. However, as the continuous cultivating of smaller pieces of land became a sustaining practice throughout the world, ploughs were much more efficient than digging sticks. As humanity became more stationary, empires such as the New Kingdom of Egypt and the Ancient Romans arose, dependent upon agriculture to feed their growing populations. As