The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-08-12

i - S Nss 'AoAocn 'AA sIS5 quloklyE EGQ, an hEHGy
wash ct the Hstss sytagon aad thsn the
gathering at the cook shanty.
Y isea caada assent assembly tinst congre.
gates around the pine board table.
There is the gray-haired man who has
failed at farming and now works for
Others, the boy who has never before
been in the country, the half dozen
young men, all more or less ia love
with the cook; the Jolly boss whose
smooth, sun.burned face wrinkles with
perpetual smiles.
Before them is set an array of hean.
ed-up bread ard butter, roast beef.
cabbage, cheese, creamery butter and
coffee, that would make an, expensive
meal at Q first-olaas, restaurant. And
they do it Justice. They clean mp
their plates. It is no. fun pitching
straw all day, and there is no better
appetizer on earth than a position
at the businessend Of q wind stacker.
It was o straw.staoker il my boy
days back in western New 7 York, !" said
the boss as he showed the workings
OF his handsome machine.
The new method is better than the
old. a On the former an endless bel.
With slats aoross carried the straw np
an incline and two boys were kent
busy pushing it away.
The moderA machine has q long zinc
or iron tube like a hugo telescopes. AT
its base is fan which is kept in mo.
ton and sends . blast up tho tube
carrying straw and dust with it-hence
wind stacker =
II Th nan at the bottom guides the
pipe, .e,inting it's end in various di-
reotions SO as to make perfect stack.
It aceomplishes this, too. 81
In other ways is there great change.
in the modern threshing methods.
The old-time farmer stood beside the
machine and caught the grain that
flowed in red-brown stream in u half
bushei measure. Then he lifted is
to his wagon and Kept :ho tally Oh :
board. ~ S5 i18.' s.
The modern machine takes the
wheat, as it comes from the cylinder.
cleans it, puts il "a Tub high above
the top Of the machine, weighs and
measures it, then let's it run into
the wagon. There is no more of the
tedious fanning-mill process that
tired ont the boy Of the earlier gen.
eration. 5s D.,
Nor is there band cutter at the
start OF the machine g work. "a self
feeder attachment does all that, and
from the minute chat che bundles, tied
in twine BY self.bipders, are pitched
at the gaping mouth Of the separate +
until the farmer drives to the elevator
with his load Of olean. wheat, leaving
the straw behind, the h.ad Of man; has
not been called into use. The ma
chine does all.
But the new method has one danger
that was foreign in the earlier days
fire. When the old horse power was
IN vogue nobody ever heard Of q wheat
field fire, but now, with the traction
engines and the carrying Of coal across
the dry stubble the matter becomes
serious. .s.ys *s5 As. ss Is, II
Sometimes while the crew is eating
in the cook shanty there comes from
the field where the painting engine has
been left standing 8 cloud os smoke.
One day when Carl Hayner was driv.
ing an engine out in Ellis county,
theys vas q sudden alarm Of this kind.
Down BY the stacks were his fine
separator and eHSS::s and =;a:aa he ran bare.
headed to the smoking, burning stack
TO save them. Into the cloud he ran a
and leaped on the footboard Of the
engine.
Gst ready aud couple her, he |
called 60 his foreman, q Swede, who
was waiting In wonder.
The fireman obeyed and pulled OF
the belt. The fire, which had started
from the engine, was now sueeping
np the side Of the staeks, but Carl
showed the lever, and the huge black
tnaoEnEe e turned and twislcd and back.
5ed until ~ was justin front of the
separator.
S a right, called the fireman, and
.away went Carl.
Ihe smoking naachine sWayed and
TuMbled behind his hurrying automo.
bile the plains same. nsvas
theless and he rode tr:amphantly ous
the field while the aames ate up 8, ,00Sl 4