Cuts and scrapes may become infected when bacteria enter the wound, resulting in a skin infection. This causes changes in the texture of the skin and turns the surrounding skin red or white. Fungal infections, such as ringworm and tinea versicolor, can also trigger discolored skin patches on various parts of the body.
A plough (UK) or plow (US; both /ËplaÊ/) is a tool (or machine) used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil.
A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps crops at harvest, when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass. All mechanical reapers cut the grass; most also gather it, either by windrowing it or picking it up. Modern machines that not only cut and gather the grass but also thresh its seeds, winnow the grain, and deliver it to a truck or wagon it are called combine harvesters or simply combines; they are the engineering descendants of earlier reapers. Hay is harvested some