Ploughs and Ploughing

A Shire Album. Ploughs and Ploughing by Roy Brigden
Soft back, 32 pages, Illustrated B&W, 15cm x 21cm

All you need to know about ploughs and ploughing from the earlyl days of farming up to the present. This book is illustrated and may help with those unusual finds in the field.

Ploughs and Ploughing contents:

On the back cover:

One of the most basic of agricultural operations, ploughing enriches and aerates the soil, producing a fertile seed bed ideal for the germination and growth of a new crop. The technology of ploughs has progressed a long way from the primitive prehistoric ard to the tractor-mounted power-controlled multi-furrow reversible plough of today but the process of ploughing remains essentially the same. This book examines the development of ploughs and their motive power (including oxen, horses, steam engines and tractors) from earliest times and shows how ploughing has evolved as man’s understanding of the scientific processes has increased. Roy Brigden is Keeper of the Museum of English Rural Life and Deputy Director of the Rural History Centre at the University of Reading.