Show on the farm once the farmer fanner swathed hla his wheat with the cradle and raked and bound it by hind hand then the horse drawn reaper then the mccormick binder and ami finally the great mechanical tractors of the present each of which haul two binders once also the antiquated flail re sounded from morning to night on the best of the farms then horses were used to tread on the straw and then came cam the treadmill thresher the last of which ment ent out some fifteen years ago today tractor threshers thre thres bers do the work |