What does EGW write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Tractor or tractor?"
Answer
In the present writings, neither the terms “Trecker” nor “Tractor” are mentioned, as the texts come from a time when agricultural work was primarily performed with animals and hand tools. The documents describe the use of horses, oxen, donkeys, and even cows as draft animals for wagons and plowing. Instead of motorized tractors, tools such as plowshares, hoes, shovels, rakes, and harrows were employed for soil cultivation.
Agricultural Work and Draft Animals
»We have seen how the massive trees were felled and uprooted; we have seen how the plowshare was driven into the earth and drew deep furrows for planting trees and sowing seeds. The students learn what plowing means and that the hoe and the shovel, the rake and the harrow are all tools of an honorable and useful industry.«
»The team they usually drive consists of cows. Horses are rarely used here, except before carriages; mules, Sardinian ponies, donkeys, and oxen are fairly common; but the animals most frequently employed for ordinary agricultural work are cows. These are normally led with ropes attached to their horns, with the driver walking beside or ahead of them.«
»There we were sitting in the middle of a mud hole. Father went as far as he could out of the wagon and stepped as carefully as possible over the mud onto firmer ground. I had to follow his example, and we climbed over the fence and walked a short distance on the untouched prairie ground until the mud was overcome.«
- Agricultural equipment
- Use of draft animals
- Soil cultivation and plowing
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