Show OLD CRADLE COMES BACK wet weather compels resort to primitivo primitive methods in 1855 which was before the modern reaper and binder had been invented all grain was cradled and by employment of that primitive method the loss to the farmers was considerably reduced now the soil is so thoroughly saturated with water that the heavy machines are rendered practically useless and many farmers have gone back to the cradle to savo save it possible some portion of their badly deteriorating crops it is a common sight to see farmers in rubber boots wading through the sodden soil cutting their wet and often growing crop of wheat with an old fashioned cradle the dealers here cannot supply the demand for these old ample ments for the cradle a score of years ago was stowed away with the spinning wheel and candlesticks not only have the old cradles been brought into use but new ones have been ordered the dealers here kept nothing of the kind and have with difficulty found them among the jobbers of the tha state geneva N Y dispatch |