Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/766/en

The high art of summer stubble working with horse-drawn implements lay in this: the skim plough followed the mowing binder directly, so that the sheaves already fell onto the broken stubble. The combine harvester, as the technologically most elegant and efficient harvesting method, soon carried the day. That victory came at the cost of an early-advanced, tilth-protecting soil cultivation, and it altered the whole rhythm of farm operations fundamentally.