Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-24

chine with me, everybody got rid OF Tho
threshed out straw by means Of an
endless sort OF belt. called carrier, that
conveyed IL from the machine to The
stack or wherever 1t was slowed Most
threshers use this kind OF carrier
still, hut not all Generally u isn't hard
work 10 take care of the straw. but
sometimes it's a mcasly iob-speciallv
when he grain is short oats or barley.
Barley is the dustiest grain that's
threshed. nnd besides II has boards
that get into your mouth and work
their way through your cheek and play
a lot Of such pleasant FRANKS Thistl,-
oats are almost as bad The thistleS
get under your finger nails under your
shirt and about everywhere they can. !
shall never forget how once you had
your own troubles with a threshing of
short. unbound barley The farmer,
you remember, decided not to stack his
straw outside, but to stow it in the barn.
and so the far end of the straw carrier
was run up under the peak of the roof.
II was a sliwalloging hot day. and none
Of the men would go up and handle the
straw
You were only boy and not expe-
rienced. and you accepted the job. Wal.
the machine was started up and in
about one minute you were lost to the
world in a cloud of the blacklist, thick
est dust you had ever seen. Your
mouth. your eyes and your ears were
all choked up in no time, and you hol-
Tered for some one to come and take
your place; but nobody paid any atten-
ton. So you just jumped down off the
platform in the peak of the barn. and
went out to the pump to wash out your
breathe holes SO you could get little
air. You said you'd have been dead in
five minutes more, and mebbe you
would; but your leaving your place up
there was rather expensive all around.
The straw carrier got clogged and
broke down. and eight or ten men were
kept idle the whole afternoon while re-
pairs were being made.
The newest things in threshing ma
chimes now are wind stackers. A wind
stacker is big, sheet iron tube in which
we make an artificial cyclone that sucks
the straw up, carries it through the tube
and drops II wherever you please on the
! top Of the stack, the tube being hung
on pivot so you can swing it around TO
suit yourself Nobody need get choked
up al the end of the straw carrier these
days, and nobody need be hurt by the
band cutters knife. or have his hands
or legs torn off by the cylinder either,
for we've got automatic feeders and
band cutters now They are made in
one contrivance that reaches out to the
uuthreshed grain, whether it is in the
bay in the loft, or in stack. / use
these automatic attachments all right.
but some fellows can't make much
Roadway with Them, and ii will be quite
awhile before hand cutting, feeding
/ and stacking are done away with.
"Out in California hear they COM
bine harvesting and threshing ma
chimes in one, so that when the grain is
| cut it goes direct from the knives of
the cylinder, then passes throngh the
separator and is dumped on the ground
in stacks. They say these harvesters. as
they call hem, look like steamboat
navigating wheat fields. and I'd like &c
see one of them mighty wen, but
guess we threshers east of the Missis.
sippi will stick 10 our present method
for awhile yet"