. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. Huston, Paul Griswold; Farm life; Natural history. HARA^EST. 277 In fields, too, -where formerly the harvesting was all done by hand with the old-time notched and serrated sickles, or reaping hooks, requiring a dozen men or over for a single field and necessitating endless hours, one can hear to-day the click-click-click of the modern knives in their cutter-bar as the horses draw the reaper, and can see the arms of a self- binder turning over and over and waving above the sea of wheat, gathering in the golden spears. Out on the stubble one by one
. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. Huston, Paul Griswold; Farm life; Natural history. HARA^EST. 277 In fields, too, -where formerly the harvesting was all done by hand with the old-time notched and serrated sickles, or reaping hooks, requiring a dozen men or over for a single field and necessitating endless hours, one can hear to-day the click-click-click of the modern knives in their cutter-bar as the horses draw the reaper, and can see the arms of a self- binder turning over and over and waving above the sea of wheat, gathering in the golden spears. Out on the stubble one by one fall the bundles, sheaves already tied up with good strong twine, a much more easy way of doing it than the old method of the cradle, a rake, a gavel, and a wisp of straw. And then comes the shock- ing of the grain, either in long or round shocks as you please, the bundles being placed regularly together, a dozen to the shock, with a couple of straddling riders, or "hudders," on the top to shed the rain. After drying for a few days in the shock, the grain is next either hauled to the barn and mowed away, or else is stacked near the house, where it goes through a period of "sweating," or thorough evaporation of the moisture it contains, before thresh- ing. Sometimes, however, if it is cut when quite ripe, the grain is hauled direct to the threshing machine in the field, where, amid a great, thundering, rough rhythm and a shower of dust, the kernels, or MODERN 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 resemble the original Huston, Paul Griswold. Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham; New York, Eaton and Mains
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