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FARMING 19

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Summary: Horse-drawn Reaper

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Horse-drawn reapers gradually replaced the scythe for cutting grain crops. Still, small farmers used the scythe and even wealthy farmers needed men on the scythe to work in awkward corners in irregularly shaped fields.

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