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XIXe
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Animal-powered agriculture was still used for farming |
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Mechanical thershing is the most practical expression of progress |
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Today, tractors work rapidly... |
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France, a big agricultural nation, is a country where large factories produce for farmers all the tools that they need. |
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Extracts from the movie about the mechanization of French
agriculture
(end of 19th - beginning of 20th century)
made for Agropolis-Museum
from audioviaul arcdhives of the Ministry of Agriculture
Director of photography : Gérard Delahaye
© Ministry of Agriculture
Farming tools have changed slowly up to the end of the 19th century.
The great revolution in working agricultural fields came with mechanization
which, at the end of the 19th century allowed more efficiency in the use
of each tool up to a point where one can expect that hard work is henceforth
over...