A long time ago about 98% of people were farmers and all of them could barely feed all the people enough to survive. Most people actually died of starvation. Today nearly no one dies of starvation and by that I mean every tenth homeless person and today only about 2% of people are farmers. Back then the farmers had to reap, thresh, and winnow. You have probably guessed what reaping is but just to make sure reaping is when you cut the stalks of wheat. Then threshing is where you beat the grains out of the little shell called a chafe which you have to do for about an hour. So now you have a pile of chafe and grain. Winnowing is where you sort the grain and chafe out the quickest way to do this is to throw handful of grain and chafe in the air and the wind blows away the light chafe and the heavy grain falls into your hand.
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