The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-10

thresher, which weighs 5000 pounds.
which runs itself by its own power,
the same as an automobile, and yet
which has its cutting and threshing
apparatus by separate motor gear.
There is a combination harvester
and thresher used in California pull
or $4,000 pounds and as it is operated
by the power from its drive wheels 1t
takes a good many horses TO pun it.
1t is not practical to use this heavy
harvester in the Kansas wheat belt,
because Of the soil being softer and
it could not be pulled through a Kan
sas wheat field.
Mr.. Jacobs has arranged his ma
chine so that the motor runs all the
cutting and threshing machinery in
dependent of the drive wheels. At
the same time the motor engine pro-
pels the engine ahead.
Il have been working on this idea
for six years or more" said Mr..
Jacobs. Not until the motor has been
developed in the past year have / seen
my way clear. But now the motive
problem Is solved. There is no expert
ment about my machine. l use a
thresher that has already been per-
fected; a perfected harvester, a per-.
fected motive power and combine
them"
Same as an Auto Engine.
Mr.. Jacobs engine is on the same
plan as the automobile engine The
first clutch drives the thresher, the
second or intermediate puts the cut
ting device in gear and the third, or
full power drives the machine for
ward.
The machine complete will be 12I
feet wide, which is less than half as
wide as the present harvester re-
quires, is three feet shorter than the
present header, has two drive wheels
five feet in diameter and twelve inches
across, and three wheels 40 inches in
diameter and eight inches across.
Complete, the machine weighs 5000
pounds and four horses could pull it
through any field in any kind of wealth
er, Mr.. Jacobs says. The 5O-horseI
power motor, he has demonstrated,
will carry it through the muddiestI
field and at the same time be cutting
and threshing the wheat
with this machine a farmer and
his son, without any other aid. can
easily cut and harvest and thresh for.
ty acres Of wheat in ten hours" de
clared Mr.. Jacobs. with the old
header 25 acres can be cut in ten
hours, but there is still the threshing
to be done. At the same time while
We are cutting and threshing the straw
is being spread on the ground for fer
tilizer.
The Saving in Cost.
by our present system of harvest
and get in the stack 25 acres of wheat.
You have then got to pay for the
threshing the disposal of the straw,
, etc. 1t costs s93.75 to head and thresh
20 acres of wheat under the present
>, method Out in California, where they
use a combination harvester and
] 1,,rl
vest and thresh 20 acres for $3.50. Ny
machine will cut, harvest and thresh
20 acres for $10.50 and cut 10 acres
more per day than the California
J horse drawn machine.
! The saving on 300 acres of wheat
over the present system is 81 900 and
besides that | figure by using this
method there will be saved three BUSH
els of wheat to the acre worth s72O.
on 300 acres, or total saving of 81
! 72O in year on 300 acres of wheat. Il
figure that the machine can be sold
for $1,000, so that it will pay for itself
in one year. With this machine a far
mer and his boy can handle, alone,
300 acre wheat CROP
A Nickerson man has also been
working on a combination harvester.
His machine is on an entirely different
plan, however, and proposes to thresh
the wheat from the standing grain
without cutting it. 1t will be run into
the standing grain, will suck the
wheat straw against the threshing
cylinder which will knock off the
grains of wheat.
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