Editing Winnowing (section)

== Mechanization of the process ==
[[File: Wanmolen Duitsland.jpg|thumb|Winnowing machine from 1839]]

In 1737 Andrew Rodger, a farmer on the estate of [[Cavers (parish)|Cavers]] in [[Roxburghshire]], developed a winnowing machine for corn, called a 'Fanner'. These were successful and the family sold them throughout Scotland for many years. Some Scottish Presbyterian ministers saw the fanners as sins against God, for the wind was a thing specially made by him and an artificial wind was a daring and impious attempt to usurp what belonged to God alone.<ref>Chambers, Robert (1885). [https://books.google.com/books?id=O6QHAAAAQAAJ ''Domestic Annals of Scotland'']. Edinburgh: W & R Chambers. p. 504.</ref> As the [[Industrial Revolution]] progressed, the winnowing process was mechanized by the invention of additional winnowing machines, such as fanning mills.