Six pair of oxen drew it to the wheat field ; where a very moderate load being put on, it was necessary to yoke two addi tional pair to the unweildy machine , before it could be extricated from the earth and safely de posited with its contents at the barn.
Not a bit of iron was to be discovered in this primeval piece of mechanism; and I watched anxiously to see it move.  Six pair of oxen drew it to the wheat field ; where a very moderate load being put on, it was necessary to yoke two addi tional pair to the unweildy machine , before it could be extricated from the earth and safely de posited with its contents at the barn.  The mode adopted for threshing the wheat and barley was also novel.