This is a picture of some people threshing grain. There are kids sitting on bags that were most likely filled with grain. This picture was taken about 1910.

The purpose of threshing grain was so that people could feed the horses and so that the grain wouldn't grow too long.

Some farmers used to harvest grain by hand. The tool used was called a Reaper Knife or Sickle. The cost back then was 50 cents for a sickle.

When harvesting by horse, farmers used a mowing machine. Probably everyone used this item unless they decided to use the sickle. To thresh the grain, they used a threshing machine like the one in the picture.

The mowing machine was also used for cutting down the corn, and then people would sort the corn.

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