The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-08-15
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Some Good Suggestions as to
When to Do IhreSb-
ing

The threshing season is nearly here
and what are you going to do to help
it to a successful finish? 1t promises
to be long joD, there is lot of
straw.
Threshing machines are fewer tina n
usual and if we happen to have lot
of rainy weather like we had year
ago, there will be many grain stacks
rearing their peaks above the snow
next winter. Make sure it is not
yours. You ask how can ] help any?
Well L am a thresher and will offer a
few suggestions that will very mater
tally help along the threshing to the
betterment of all concerned. First,
location of stacks; put them on high
ground, that can be got to even if it
is muddy; clean away all manure from
behind stacks and have all fences so
constructed that you may take them
away entirely or open gates immedia-
tely in line with where the machine
will set, thus leaving clear way for
the thresher to be pulled betw cen
your stacks without loss of time or
temper.
Have stacks the right distance apart,
not less than eight feet or more than
ten feet. If it should happen to be
late before you thresh. leave a strip
unplowed to your settings in field or
else harrow road to them and around
them for it is almost impossible to
move the modern threshing machine
over frozen rough blowing. This is
and must not be neglected.
wouldn't move my machine over 80
rods of rough blowing for the whole
crop of the average farmer in Stearns
county let alone his thresh bill.
Have plenty of help to run the ma.
chine to it's full capacity. In this i'm
mediate neighborhood it is the custom
for the farmer to furnish the help.
The thresher will help as much AS he
can by bringing all the men he can
get, up to the required number to
run the machine. 1t is to your inter-
est to get the rest. Many farmers
think IL The machine is running emp
ty half the time, they are gettieg a
good job done, when really the ma
chine, no matter what make, will
waste more grain under such condi-
tions than if crowded to more than
its capabity. So when the thresher
comes to you and is short of help call
in your neighbor, his son or his hired
man and then yon go and help him.
Thresh when your neigh5or does :.
Use the same machine he does. Get
your heads together and don'f call The
machine in until you are all ready TO
thresh at the same time, or rather,
one right after the other. Twoyear
ago we went three times into the
same neighborhood to thresh for
seven farmers, moving away two to
four miles each time. wearing and
shaking our machines to pieces, U-in.
oil and paying men for time that is
worse than wasted for you, Mr.. Farm
err, as well as us. And we are only
one of many that do the same thing,
not because they want to but because
Mr.. Smith won't be ready to thresh
ySt loT CilIcc udso dnu ioui i4ouiS.
And all this lost time together, put it
into actual threshing and it will ma
terially shorten the threshing season,
more probably, than any other one
thing. Please take this to heart and
get your threshing done early for when
it begins to freeze hard nights its the
shed for us whether you are threshed
or not.
STEARNs COUNTY THREsHER