Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . ng machine has reacheda high stage of development and does all the work of separating the grainfrom the straw, cleans the grain of chaff and foreign material, delivers thegrain to bag or wagon and the straw to stack or mow without its beingtouched by the hands of man after it is forked from the wagon to the self-feeder and band cutter. Since the average farmer does not own a threshing outfit, it is not FARM MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS 729 necessary for him to understand the details of
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . ng machine has reacheda high stage of development and does all the work of separating the grainfrom the straw, cleans the grain of chaff and foreign material, delivers thegrain to bag or wagon and the straw to stack or mow without its beingtouched by the hands of man after it is forked from the wagon to the self-feeder and band cutter. Since the average farmer does not own a threshing outfit, it is not FARM MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS 729 necessary for him to understand the details of it. Threshermen wouldnot be satisfied with the brief description that space will permit in thischapter. They can secure ample information from the threshermensbooks published by threshing machine manufacturing companies. The clover huller is a modified threshing machine and is generallyowned and operated for a community by the owners of a general thresheror corn-sheller outfit. Small threshing machines are manufactured for individual farmers,and may prove economical for farmers in the eastern section of the. An Up-to-date Threshing United States, where it is the custom to store the sheaf grain tn largebarns and thresh it in the winter time. The essential points in operatingthe thresher are the speed of the cylinder, which should be uniform, thesetting of the concaves, and the number of teeth in it so as to removeall grain from the heads, the speed of the fan, and the selection andadjustment of the sieves, so as to clean the grain without blowing anyinto the straw. Rapid and satisfactory work necessitates ample power may consist of steam, gasoline or electric motors, and shouldbe adapted to as many other uses as possible. 1 Courtesy of The International Harvester Company, Chicago, III, 730 SUCCESSFUL FARMING Corn Shelters.—In the corn belt, large corn shelters are used forshelling nearly all corn that goes to market. They are owned and operatedfor communit
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