Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-04

/ 1t was first thought best to induce
| the farmer to haul his corn fodder to
! the plant in Kankakee, have the corn
| husked. and then hauling the leaves
and the husks back to the farm for
! feeding purposes. Superintendent Mil
Ter. Of the factory. however. believed
/ there was 4 much better plan, one
! that was calculated to enlist the CO.
| operation of the farmers. He per-
! fected machine, the province of
which is to be hauled TO the farm. set
up near the barn, and then haul the
shocks Of fodder to the machine, just
as the threshing people haul oats or
other grain. The fodder is fed into
the machine swiftly driven by steam
power. ,
The first act of the contrivance is
to snap off the ears of the corn stalk
and to drop them into Il double con-
Veyor, which carries the ears along
endways, skinning off the husks as
they pass along. Scarcely a shred Is
! left on an ear. the great bulk of the
/ yellow ears coming out without
vestigc of their former covering
| What little Smelling is done in the OPP
GRAFTON, the machine saves the grains
and deposits them in box at the
| side. The ears are run by machinery
into a wagon box, in which they arc
/ hauled away.
| After having clipped eff the ears.
! the machine runs the stalks to the
rear, depositing them side by side on
a table. Automatically the machine
rolls them into a bundle that is push
ed into a binder operated on the same
| principle as that of the binding ma
chinery of a harvester. The bundle
Of stalks. as clean as fish poles. is
[ tied with hemp cord and dropped
to the side of the machine.
The leaves and husks of the fodder
are dropped on an endless belt that
carries them to the mouth of a blow
pipe, the function Of which is to blow
this material into the barn of the
farmer, who finds in it some Of the
finest feed stuff that his farm pro-
| cuces.
For thus husking his corn and blow
ing the part fit fer cattle feed into
the barn, the farmer pays the machine
man 81 an acre and turns over the
stalks to the latter free of charge.
The machine viii clean up six acres,
The stalks, which have now become
the property of the husker. are hauled
or shipped to the plant at Kankallee
and are conveyed to an upper room,
where they are fed into a machine
THAT separates the pith from the shell
of the stalk. Two knives that are
driven at great speed saw the pith
from the stalk that has been rolled
fiat, so that every particle Of the pith
has been taken out. The pith is drop
ped into enc bin and the shell into
another
| They are baled separately and ship
ped to the paper factory in Maine,
where each is treated according TO
particular process in making paper.
At first the husker and depithing
machines were combined in one. the
| first idea being to bring all of the
found to be more desirable TO do the
husking on The farm and the Depth
ing in the plant, and they were sep
arated. Il is believed that one of the
huskers may be perfected to strip and
husk Is acres a day and viii turn ont
in single autumn coo tons Of pre-
pared corn stalks. \ paper mill with
daily capacity of 100 tons of finish
ed paper viii require 10000 tons Of
corn stalks annually. II is estimated
that the total output Of the paper
mills of this country is 100000 tons
annually.
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