Sorghums : sure money crops . The topping can be done by hand at the rateof two or three acres per day, provided the crop has notbeen planted thicker than is advisable to produce a goodyield of grain. In hand-topping, a hustling man and alively stepping team hitched to a wagon with a large box,can make the harvest go at a rapid rate. I much prefertopping kafir or milo to husking corn. Having learnedto top kafir in a section in which there was no corn tohusk except in unusually favorable seasons, may be re- 208 sorghums: sure money crops sponsible for my preference. A heavy, sharp butcherknife,
Sorghums : sure money crops . The topping can be done by hand at the rateof two or three acres per day, provided the crop has notbeen planted thicker than is advisable to produce a goodyield of grain. In hand-topping, a hustling man and alively stepping team hitched to a wagon with a large box,can make the harvest go at a rapid rate. I much prefertopping kafir or milo to husking corn. Having learnedto top kafir in a section in which there was no corn tohusk except in unusually favorable seasons, may be re- 208 sorghums: sure money crops sponsible for my preference. A heavy, sharp butcherknife, or a light, short corn knife, or a hand sickle one-half of which has been cut off, are best for hand done in this way is three or four times as rapidas husking corn. A Kansas Farmer subscriber, in Missouri, submittedthis sketch for a handy and rapid kafir, milo or caneheader. This is a mowing machine sickle bar andsickle, equipped with a long lever. The sickle baris hung to the outside of the wagon-box with two. Missouri Sorghum Growers Wagon-Box Header. hooks made in the shape of the letter **S. The hooksshould be made to snugly fit the bar and wagon-box subscriber says the driver can easily work the leveras fast as three men can carry the loose stalks or bundlesto the device. The heads fall into the wagon-box as cut. The wagon-box header is well adapted to the headingof kafir, milo and cane. The Eagle Manufacturing Com-pany makes such a machine. This header is attached tothe side of the wagon-box and is driven by a chain froma sprocket attached to the rear wheel of the wagon. Themachine can be adjusted up or down, by a lever, to suitthe varying heights of stalks and the heading of one rowat a time is done as fast as a team can walk. The Acme Harvesting Machine Company builds a grain GRAIN SORGHUM FARMING 209 sorghum harvesting attachment for its regular model ofHodges header. This attachment elevates the platformto a height of forty inches and will harv
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