Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — Time Changes. [ARTICLE]

Time Changes.

With the sickle a man coutd harvest half an acre a day. With the scythe a man cdflld harvest one acre a day. With the cradle a man could harvest, two and a half acres a ; day. ' With the first reaper (1831) ■ a man couljl harvest six acres • a day. With the modern binder a : man can harvest twenty acres : a day. i , With the modern tractor and i two binders one man can har- [ ve«t forty acres a day.—Manii toba Free Press.