Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Two, by the Bradley-Garretson Co., Limited, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered, according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Two, by the Bradley-Garretson Co., Limited, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. All Rights Reserved. CONTENTS. 00 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES. Inventions and Discoveries.-Distinctions and Contrast.- PAGE XI S crease or Decrease.-Effect of Economic, Industrial and Social Life upon Inventions.-What Inventions have AGRICULTURE AND ITS IMPLEMENTS. The Egyptians the Earliest and Greatest Agriculturists.— Rome and Farming.-Cato, Varro, Virgil.—Columella. -Pliny.—Palladius.-The Decline of Agriculture.— Northern Barbarism.-Lowest Ebb in the Middle Ages.- Revival in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.-With Invention of Printing.—Publications then, Concern- ing.-Growth in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. -Jethro Tull.-Arthur Young.-Washington.-Jeffer- son.-The Art Scientifically Commenced with Sir Hum- phry Davy's Lectures on Soils and Plants, 1802–1812.— Societies." Book Farming" and Prejudice of Farmers. -A Revisit of Ruth and Cincinnatus at Beginning of Nineteenth Century.-Their Implements still the Com- mon Ones in Use.-The Plough and its History.-Its Es- sential Parts and their Evolution to Modern Forms.- Originated in Holland.-Growth in England and Amer- ica.-Small, Jefferson, Newbold.-Lord Kames' Com- plaint. The American Plough.-Cutting Disks.-Steam The Sowing of Grain.-The Sower of the Parables.-His PAGE Drill of Jethro Tull.-A Clergyman, Cooke's Machine. Ox." PAGE 23 Harvesting in Ancient Times.-The Sickle.-Pliny's Ma- chine.-Now the Clover Header.-Palladius' Descrip- tion.-Improved in 1786.-Scotchman's Grain Cradle in 1794.-The Seven Ancient Wonders and the Seven Modern Wonders.-The Modern Harvester and the Cot- ton Gin.-Requirements of the Harvester.—Boyce.— Meares.-Plucknett.-Gladstone and the First Front Draft Machine, 1806.- Salonen introduced Vibrating Knives over Stationary Blades, 1807.-Ogle and Recipro- cating Knife Bar, 1822.-Rev. Patrick Bell, 1823, Cuts an Acre of Grain in an Hour.-Mowers and Reapers in America in 1820.-Reaper and Thresher combined by Lane, of Maine, 1828.-Manning's Harvester, 1831.-Schnebly. -Hussey.-McCormick, 1833-34.-Harvesters and Mowers at World's Fair, London, 1851.-Automatic Binders.- Wire and Twine.-Advances Shown at Centennial Exhibi- tion, 1876.-Inventions Beyond the Wildest Dreams of Former Farmers.-One Invention Generates Another.- Lawn Mowers.-Hay Forks and Stackers.-Corn, Cot- ton, Potato, Flax Harvesters. - Threshing. - The Old |