Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-06-28
Qricultural.
PIows, Flowing and Farm Implements
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The subject 81 Farm implements IS broad
and comIrcicU 5 much Of history, IN expert
mcuts al q improvements. In the land Of
Paradise. before man had lost his estate, no
implements q. Agriculture were needed d,
known -or Thought Of; but when the earth
had been Cursed then il became necessary
CD till tie sol IN d different manner from
that implied in the command To dr IS and
keep il. Not only must the soil be stirred
and icrt.llzcd now, but constant war are
must be maintained against the hordcs OF
thorns. Thistle and weeds let loose upon it.
To 90 this, and I- we cay T. g. make a living,
the ingenuity of man was taxed to invent
some help for his bands in the unequal strife
and this Nee z~Ity. with inherent love for
ease. yulgaritv termed lazincss, resulted in
the invention of agricultural implements,
and still continues 10 stimulate their i'm
Trovcmeut As might III supposed, ard as
history plainly shows, the first attempts
were but rude I'D their results but that
same spIIit 81 emulation which characterize
the inventors Of the present time, bad the
same effect as now. tai perfection had been
many times improved, and noisy hand-bill-
and posters Of Sau-crit. Greek, and Hebrew.
proclaimed 20 an attentive world the great
superiority Of this famed pruning hook, OF
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tural dav Indeed, we can, as progressive
farmers Of the present day, heartily sym
pathiZe with those servants Ut the prosperous
Job who were blowing with the oxen IN the
heldr. when the he rs fell upon them and
took them away, and left only one TO return
with the news Of the terri DC onslaught t.
the righteous, but now prosecuted Job
We can also feel something Of the ecstacy OF
those ambitious but discOurtcOus Sabeans, az
Tor the first time they looked with wonder
upon the Vlow of the patient man and bore
II cxultant To their own country; and when
We remember that this plow was but the
branch y tree. grown naturally crooked.
and capable Of doing I'D more than one 0.
our civil zed harrow t,cth can DO. we see
something Of the march of invention since
tie days Of the ancient agrIcuiturdlIsts. No
So and perhaps sill greater, have been the
improvements IN tOois tor other branches %
farm labor the pruning hook Of B04Z Il
now the combined mower and reaper, :. y tn
the latest at achments, aud the sheaves OF
grain so laboriuusly transported by hand
among the anclsLts. and stacked out doors in
their warm clil atc are now safely landed
70 the uFTcr lott by the boys, old man. and
. horse p.tch-llrk.
Eut the subject assigned me has more to
10 with PIows and Flowing ! VIII attem2'
to give something of the history Of the lnvcn-
ton and its growth.
Away back in time. in that IL ID where
first .he human race had being. we suppos-
the II0w To have las origin The oldest trace
OF such an implement was carved on one of
the old monuments Of ASH Minor, and is
supposed 10 be he same j. chat with which
Job servants plowcd, 5000 years e. G.
vt still later date, We find the + st In
dian, or Eindoo pillow, substantially the sane
As that now used IN Mexico and other span
ish countries Id has long crooked beam,
firmly set into q bed piece at the rear, one
end ot which extends upwards for a. handle.
while the other goes down and forwards.
terminating IN a point, which was usually
iron.
The old Greeks, always prepared to give a
religious reason tor everything, tell " that
this pIow has the following history Ceres
Or as they called her, Dcmetcr the goddess
Of agriculture, had d daughter whom Pluto
kidnapped and carried Off TOR a queen. To
the lower regions tho hcrcaved goddess
left the fields and wandered in search Of her
till they well nigh became barren, and ali
the gods and other goddesses besought her To
re-urn- Pluto, though generally implaca-
BILE seeing the ruin he had wrought, con
cluted to = let up a little from his design,
and allowed queen Proserpine to 20 back T.
her grieying mother portion of each year.
This 20 appca=cd the Mailing dcitcss that she
went back 10 hIgh Olympus and taught one
TrIptalemus especial art Of making plows
so that, If this be true, (and it certainly
ranks well with good part Of hist 'ry,) We
are directly indebted % this IriptalenIus for
all plows, OF wha tevcr size or shape. One
Of these plows can be seen at the Museum Of
the New York Agricultural Society, At Al
bauy. 1t Is a very interesting relic TO eZ-
anime, although eutcrprislng farmers might
call it + not much i for blowing IL thee
worthy aucIents, AID even the gods themselves
were satisfied with thi-, hDw enthusiastic
would they have been