Van (agriculture)
See also: Van
The van is an agricultural tool of which one was used for oneself formerly to clean the Céréale S. it was a very flat and broad basket being used to separate the Paille, the Balle and the Poussière of the good grain by projecting them in the air of an epic alerts to offer to the wind the lightest parts to eliminate.
Its origin is as old as the Agriculture, i.e. Neolithic .
It was generally made of a braiding of straw, Osier, split branches of Châtaignier, etc
It was mechanized to take the form of the winnowing machine, machine from now on obsolete which was integrated in the Batteuse then in the Moissonneuse-batteuse.
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