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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 335

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flail, and on farms where a large amount of grain was grownit kept a man busy a good part of the winter to thresh it. The first improve-ment was in threshing the grain by tramping it out with horses, and withtAvo men and four horses, under the most favorable conditions, from fifty toone hundred… … IMPROVED THRESHER WITH BLOWER AND SELF-FEEDER. Another disadvantage of these methods was that it took a long time to pre-pare the crop for market, and in case of a sudden rise in price the farmercould not take advantage of it as he now can when his grain is all threshedin a single day and held in…

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