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Agricultural Hand Tools
Shire album

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Format
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
United Kingdom, 1 March 2008

A range of tools, once familiar to the farmworker, gradually became obsolete during the twentieth century. This album describes these tools and the farming processes they performed in the period before the general dominance of the tractor and combine harvester.


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Product Description

A range of tools, once familiar to the farmworker, gradually became obsolete during the twentieth century. This album describes these tools and the farming processes they performed in the period before the general dominance of the tractor and combine harvester.

Product Details
EAN
9780852636305
ISBN
085263630X
Other Information
53 illustrations
Dimensions
21 x 14.8 x 0.3 centimeters (0.04 kg)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Field Maintenance and Preparation
Seeding and Weeding
Harvesting
Processing the Crop
Further Reading
Places to Visit

About the Author

Roy Brigden is Keeper of the Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. The extensive collection there of hand tools and farm equipment, together with a wealth of documentary and illustrative material, have prompted this survey.

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