He talks about the great faith and changes that many of the characters go through. In the novel Luke Crandall learns more about himself and one can see the changes that he experiences. In the early 1920 s farming went through a great technological advancement. Different equipment such as bean and wheat harvesters were introduced, which made harvesting crops less painful and time consuming. With the introduction of a variety of new farm implements and tractors farming became a very new game.
Farmers are now able to do work that use to take weeks in only a day or to.
Irrigating that use to be back breaking work is now done with a flip of a switch. Pivots play an important role in irrigating crops for today farmers. A pivot is a large sprinkler system that walks around the field dropping water on the crops. These large pivots are mechanically run by wells that pump water out if the aquifer and can water over three hundred acres in less than twenty-four hours. Before the introduction of the pivot the task of irrigating this much land may have taken two farmers over four hours.