The Scythe Book: Mowing Hay, Cutting Weeds, and Harvesting Small Grains, with Hand Tools |
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acre Adrian Bell Agriculture Alexander Andrew Marvell angle attached beginning binders body Brueghel's bushels century Cocksfoot Corn Corn Dolly Country cover cradle scythe crop cross-peen hammer cut grass Demeter dent earth edge energy Farm farmers feet field Figure flail fork Fussell garden grain heads ground H. J. Massingham hafted hammered blade Hand & Foot handle harvesting implements hayfield Haymaking heel inches kernels labor lawn lower grip machine Matthias Alexander metal modern mower mowing mown neck peening Peter Cousins plants Press primary movement rake Raymond Dart reaping relationship rhythm Rodale Press scythe blade scythe ring seed seed drill sharpening sheaf sheaves sickle snath songs sowing spring stamped blade steel Steensberg's stone stook straw swath swing switchel tang task tendons threshing Tommy Thompson tool top grip tradition twisting upper grip weeds weight wheat whetstone whetting winnowing wood