Harvesting

Examples

• There, within easy reach of the rubber trees, they set up their camp and the actual work of harvesting the rubber crop begins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• How otherwise could the Champion Harvesting Machine Company of Springfield, Ohio, turn out an equipped machine every four minutes each working day of ten hours? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This was the situation in the harvesting industry about the time that William Deering took an active interest. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is said that the self-binding reaper has reduced the cost of harvesting grain to less than half a cent a bushel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• From the first pages of history we find that the reaping hook or sickle is the earliest tool for harvesting grain of which we have record. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Squirrels were busy with their small harvesting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Previous to this time, attempts had been made to build harvesting machines which would bind the grain before delivered to the ground, but not one could be considered a success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Ah much, much, many days harvesting for her large, yet perfectly subtle and intelligent hands upon the field of his living, radio-active body. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mr. McCormick tried the machine in the harvesting of 1816, but it would not work, and had to be carted away to the workshop as an invention gone wrong. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The American cradle stands at the head of all hand tools devised for the harvesting of grain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The scythe is still a familiar tool on our farms, but it serves other purposes than that of being the sole means of harvesting grain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For ploughing, sowing, and harvesting, swift machines came forward to do the work of scores of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For the real progress towards solving the problem of harvesting grain with machines we must turn to America. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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