Talk:Horse collar

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[edit] Hiperbole

POV article, note that this article bases all its assumptions in some discredited studies made a century ago. For example, the article says that horses are superior to oxen in ploughing, this depends on many circunstances. Also, the ancients (greeks and romans) used oxen for ploughing and had a far more productive agriculture than any region of medieval europe and early modern europe.

[edit] Expansion

I recently expanded this article with about 50% of its new material. I hope the history section is suitable now, although there isn't much said about the horse collar in the modern era except for the experiments of Lefebvre des Noëttes, an early 20th century French cavalry officer.--PericlesofAthens 22:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Agriculture

I have removed Category:Agriculture again since if this article were to be included there would be literally 100's of other articles that could justifiably be placed in the category. The cat had 360 odd entries and many were redundant or inapprop. A category such as Category:Agriculture should be kept to within the 200 article/subcat count. -- Alan Liefting- (talk) - 09:58, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I see the point, but how to we link this to agricultural pursuits? Is there a better subcat? The horse could not pull a plow with any force or power without the horse collar, it was a major milestone of technological innovation that allowed horses to be used more extensively in crop agriculture, as they could cover more land in a day than could slower-moving oxen. Somehow it would be nice if people looking at the history of ag could find this article? Thoughts? Montanabw^(talk) 05:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)