Excerpt from Rudimentary Treatise on Agricultural Engineering, Vol. 2: With IllustrationsUntil within a few years, no machinery was regularly employed in the homestead, all was done by hand - aided, it is true, by a few rude tools - and in many districts of England, at this time, scarcely a single machine will be found in use, and it is only now in a very few farms that any regular system of mechanical arrangements exist for performing all the home Operations, with the economy and superiority that a regular set of the most approved machines will do. Certainly, one or two machines may be found on almost every steading, but they are improperly fitted up, and generally, if examined, will be found to be in a very bad state, and consequently, not half the advantage is obtained from them that would be gained if they formed' part of a regular system, properly set up.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.