Editing Farmer's loop (section)

==History==
[[Cornell University]] professor [[Howard W. Riley]] published this knot in an [[agricultural extension]] pamphlet devoted to farming knots in 1912.<ref name="ashley191"/>  He was shown the knot by a farmer at the 1910 [[Genesee County, New York|Genesee]] [[Agricultural show|County Fair]] in [[Batavia, New York|Bativia]], [[New York (state)|New York]].  Riley noted that he had never seen the knot described in any reference book.<ref name="riley1912">{{cite journal|last=Riley|first=Howard W.|journal=The Cornell Reading-Courses|title=Knots, Hitches, and Splices|series=Rural Engineering Series No. 1|volume=1|issue=8|publisher=New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University|location=Ithaca, NY|date=January 1912|page=1438|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNNKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1438|access-date=2011-11-08}} As collected in ''Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York'', 136th Session, 1913, Vol. 19, No. 29, Part 5.</ref>