. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. GRAIN CROPS 47 vested chiefly with binders. A man with three or four horses Ind a binder can cut and bind from ten to eighteen acres per day. In western part of the United States, where large acreages of wheat are grown, much of the harvesting is done with large combination machines that cut the wheat, thresh it and sack it in one operation. These machines are hauled by large traction engines, or by thirty or more horses^ Such machines can be used only where there is no danger of rain, so the wh
. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. GRAIN CROPS 47 vested chiefly with binders. A man with three or four horses Ind a binder can cut and bind from ten to eighteen acres per day. In western part of the United States, where large acreages of wheat are grown, much of the harvesting is done with large combination machines that cut the wheat, thresh it and sack it in one operation. These machines are hauled by large traction engines, or by thirty or more horses^ Such machines can be used only where there is no danger of rain, so the wheat can stand until thoroughly ripe Shocking and stacking of wheat are done by hand. A good shock of wheat must provide that the heads of all bundles be kept off the ground and protected from rain. This is done by set- ting eight or more bundles firmly on the ground, butt end down, and leamng them against each other so that they will stand erect. The shock is then capped or covered with one or two bundles, so placed as to shed water and protect the heads of grain from sun and dew. Stacking is quite an art, and men pride them- selves in building uniform, , ,, ^ ^^^ ^ ^+ strlight stacks that will not blow over, and that will protect all the heads of grain from sun and ram. ,. ^ ^^ .i,^ Threshing usually results in a very busy time on the average farm. A man in each commumty usually owns a threshing outfit, consisting of an engine and a separator which are moved from farm to farm. A modern outfit will thresh from 1,500 to 4,000 bushels of gram m a day. Questions:^^^ ^hat you can about the United States as a wheat-pro- '^''TTe'll what you can about the growing of wheat. 3. Which would you use, a drill or a broadcast seeder in sowing wheat? Why?. Figure 18.—A good shock of wheat well Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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