Story of Farming

Early Farm Plows

Early Farm Implements

Early Farm Power

Early Farm Tractors

John Deer Tractors

Farm All Tractors

Steam and Other Tractors

Modern Tractors

Modern Implements

Food Production Data

History of Farm and Cities

Bibliography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultivating the Soil

harrow  

After the fields were plowed, the seed bed had to be prepared.  The better the soil was broken up, the better the crops would grow in the soil.  Early seed beds were prepare by hand with sticks, spades, or rakes.  An implement called a harrow was then used to brake up big clumps of soil.  The early harrows were square shaped with spikes attached to a wooden frame pulled by a horse or ox.  Later the design was changed to triangular, which made it easer to pull though the soil by the horse or ox. 

 

Around the eighteenth century cultivators began to take over from the harrows to work the soil.

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cultivators Cultivators were then  mounted on wheels which gave them a great advantage to the early models.   These machines could control the depths at which they went into the soil.  

 

Modern Day cultivators are very large implements which need large tractors to pull them. 

 

cultivator cultivator

     

Planting the Seeds

 

 

Story of Farming
Introduction
Plowing
  |  Auto Plow  |  Cultivators  | Planting  |  Reaping |  Threshing
Threshing Machines |  Combines   | Steam Engines
Internal Combustions Tractors  |  Bibliography