Roads of farming history run through Lake County.(Neighbor)(Lake County Discovery Museum)

From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | Date: September 14, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Diana Dretske

This morning my husband bemoaned the lack of rain, commenting that you can tell we're no longer an agricultural society when the TV weatherman is gleeful about the lack of rain in the forecast.

With 60,000 acres of cropland remaining in Lake County, and only 3 percent of Americans nationwide employed as farmers, it's no wonder we know so little about an occupation that was key in this nation's founding.

Farming remained relatively unchanged until the 19th century. Harvesting of wheat was still cut by hand with scythes and thrashed with flails. ...

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