Manual Labor Gives Way to Machine Labor

Manual Labor Gives Way to Machine Labor

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Before mechanization, fields were hayed by hand. Mechanization meant that tasks that had been group efforts — like haying and manure-spreading — could now be performed by one machine. The tractor was the most profound symbol of agricultural mechanization to emerge in the mid 20th century. John Deere, a pioneer of agricultural mechanization, was born in Rutland in 1836.

UVM Special Collections, Agricultural Extension Collection
Robert Morse

Haying by Hand- Photograph; Manure Spreading- Photograph; John Deere Model Tractor Carrying Haylage- Object Photographed on 04/09/2014