﻿“Hammers and tongs” is destined to be the fashion of the future more so than hammer and scythe. 
Scythe is definitely a tool of the past even so as a “headhog’s” torch. Nowdays, if one wants to perpetrate agriculture, he needs a hammer, chisel, monkey wrench, crowbar and a can of grease—yes and a piece of haywire. (I don’t know what he would do with a scythe except clean his pipe or open a can of sardines)— 
This is an Industrial Age—I mention this because maybe some of the comrades have not noticed it—and we are to all intents and purposes Industrial Workers, on the ground floor. Scythe then is a throwback to the good old days, that never shall come again, when we were on ou knees “pointing” a blade of grass. (Then there was the cradle and cradler of the buck wheat days) That all seems O so long ago—but never again; subject only to storms at sea, earthquakes and volcanos. Let us not consider them because they aren’t going to be; any ore so than the scythe.  
Reaction cannot prosper. Return and rejuvenation of the prodical simply isn’t. If it is, rejuvenation is not needed and return kills him. Its not a success. We Must Go Ahead or Not at All. Farmer is not an industrial worker any more so than a buttonhook Is a door key. He makes his living not by selling labor power but by selling soy beans and cows milk. He is also an employer. But a farmer need not feel discouraged he can always organize his agricultural corporation and prosper until such a time as this damnable system is discarded.