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At the beginning of this period all farm work except plowing, harrowing and carting, was done strictly with hand tools. Agriculture was practically the same as it had been for two thousand years before. Grain was sown broadcast, and harrowed in with a wooden tooth drag or a tree top drawn by oxen. The reaping was done with a cradle and the threshing accomplished with a flail or by driving