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Harvesting:
The hand tools used in crop harvesting were
ancient in origin and underwent a slow process of evolution over a span
of many centuries. By these means, a huge labour force was needed at harvest
time to carry out all the separate tasks for gathering in the crop.
During the course of the Victorian period, mechanised methods were developed
to replace the tools and substantially raise the output per worker. Even
in the early twentieth century, however, the old ways could still be seen
in operation on a few of the smaller holdings. This man was pictured cutting
corn with a scythe on a Herefordshire farm in 1935. The Museum of English Rural Life has an extensive collection of the last generation of harvesting
tools to be used on English farms.
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