Excerpt from Rudimentary Treatise on Agricultural Engineering, Vol. 2: With Illustrations

In the first division of this elementary work on Agricultural Engineering, everything which related to the arrangement of farm-buildings, was therein stated, so far at least as the limits of so small a work permitted, and the succeeding considerations in the present volume, will especially refer to the machines and implements used in connection with the farm-steading generally.

Until 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.

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