Excerpt from Rudimentary Treatise on Agricultural Engineering, Vol. 2: With Illustrations
In the first division of this elementary work on Agricultural Engineering, everything which related to the arrangement of farm-buildings, was therein stated, so far at least as the limits of so small a work permitted; and the succeeding considerations in the present volume, will especially refer to the machines and implements used in connection with the farm-steading generally.
Until within a few years, no machinery was regularly employed in the homestead; all was done by hand - aided, it is true, by a few rude tools - and in many districts of England, at this time, scarcely a single machine will be found in use; and it is only now in a very few farms that any regular system of mechanical arrangements exist for performing all the home operations, with the economy and superiority that a regular set of the most approved machines will do. Certainly, one or two machines may be found on almost every steading; but they are improperly fitted up, and generally, if examined, will be found to be in a very bad state, and consequently, not half the advantage is obtained from them that would be gained if they formed part of a regular system, properly set up.
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