The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-09-14
Threading and cleaning Wheat.

Good, clean wheat without cracked or cut
kernels in it, will always sell more readily and
at better price than wheat fOul with weeds,
seeds and chaf and full of cut or bruised grain.
Threshers are apt to manage in way to secure
their own interests rathar that of the owner of
the grain, by rushing the work so as to put
through large amount of grain, and increase
the average profits of their labor. The farmer
who has raised good crop of plump wheat has
only to blame himself if he allows the threshing
manner. The most of the threshng is done by
men who own the machines, and go about from
farm to farm threshing by the bushel, so that
the more grain that is put through the machine
in day, the greater will be the profits and are
apt to act on this principle, by crowding their
machines TO their utmost capacity.
With careful management on the part of ma
chine men, great saving may be made to the
farmer, and satisfactory results to themselves !;
for with the improved machinery which has
been brought almost to perfection during the
last few years, the work may be done well and
rapidly enough to satisfy the ambition of the
thresher, or the ecOnomizing spirit of the farmer
As the machine brings with it large gang of
men and horses to pay and feed, the farmer nat
urally feels some as the owner of the machine
does that he would like to get through with the
Job as soon as possible. So while the hurry NAV
be on both sides, the loss from the sighted work
all comes of of the farmer. Grain may be, and
often is, wasted in the emitting and handling, but
the greater waste is in the single operation of
threshing, often without anybody's knowing it,
or stopping to think about it. Insist on saving
all the grain possible and have the work well
done. Barring the danger of fire, steam is the
most economical power for threshing Purposes
giving steady speed to the machine, so if the
grain is fed through at an even rate, there is no
danger of the grain being blown through with
the chat at the moments of high speed. Besides
it Is decided cruelty to animals to press horses
into succession of full days work running the
threshing machine during midsummer, while
the days are long, the heat oppressive and the
flies inflict their seyerest punishment Give the
horses all the protection they can have from the
flies, and the machinery will he less liable to be
broken and the grain wasted by an irregular
motion.
As the straw has now become a matter of great
Importance, it should be pnt upon the stack
over a carrier. In this way, the chaff and what
ever grain which would otherwise be wasted by
being left scattered upon the ground on account
of its neness, the pitchers not being able to put
it upon the stack with the use Of their forks,
would be saved.
Ordinarily we think it economy to put the grain
in the stack during a sufficient time for it to go
through Sweat before threshing, for no doubt
it improves the quality and condition of the grain
to some extent, will require less help ON thresh-
ing days, and the delay will be in favor of the
straw whileitis notexposed to the summer rains
of course, when the farmer is compelled to sell
soon after hs vest, be had better thresh out of
the shock, and for no other reason would we adj
wise threshing grain before or during the .idog
days.n-TestaH Rural