The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-24
STACK YOUR GRAIN TO SAVE CROP
IS ADVICE GIVEN BY Prof. SHAW
Much of Grain Grown in State in 1911 Was Lost Because
Farmers Could not Thresh it-Stacking Has Many
Advantages and Would Save the Grain.

for growing of crops the lex year. In
ground may be so conserved as to
make practically sure a crop in 1913.
How to Stack.
IL oeS not require great skill to
stack, hut. of course, experience is
necessary to insure perfection in
stacking grain. The method to be fol.
lowed Is in outline as follows: A tier
OF sheaves should be laid after the
fashion followed in building a round
shock. This tier should be as wide as
the bottom of the stack and circular
IN form. The stacker then begins in
the center of the stack to lay the next
tier. The cay of this tier lap over
one another so as to make the center
the highest part. he lay being less and
less towards the outside of the stack.
The butts Of the last Ter of sheayes
should extend beyond the sheaves of
the nrst tier. Eeach succeeding tier
is laid similarly, gradually i%ncreasinp
the height of the stack relatively in
the center and gradually swelling the
diameter by the overlapping Of the
butts until the height Of about 10 feet
Is reached. A few tiers then follow.
OF an equal circumference, and then
the stack shrinks in diameter with the
laying of each succeeding tier, keep
ing n center high until the last tier
OF a is laid. The narrowing Of
the stack is brought about by nor ner-
hitting the sheaves of each tier last
laid to extend so far out as those az
n preceding tier.
General Observations.
The stack should not have a diam
eter more than will enable the mon
on the stack to work without discom-
tort. The n who lays the sheaves
usually treadS on each as he laws it.
Inc should be pitched onto
the stack from the wagon on different
sides OF the same. If all are pitched
on from one side the stack will settle
most OF h opposite side. hence the
stack will naturally tip to that side.
The top covering should be of some
material that will readily turn rain.
For this purpose there is nothing bet
ter than slough hay or Kentucky blue
grass. If kept high in the center and
properly spread, it Ices not take
should not be SO wide that it will cali
for the work of more than two men
to build it. One takes the sheaves as
they are thrown onto the stack from
the wagon and pitches them to the
stacker.
When Stacking Ought to he Done.
The stacking ought to be done as
soon as the grain is dry. 1t may be
necessary to delay. however. unit the
grain is all cut: that is. it may be nee
essary to delay stacking each kind Of
grain until that kind is all cut. 1t is
ready to stack in Il few days after it ia
cut. The number Of days called for
to leave the grain in the shock will
decrease with increasing ripeness in
the grain. When building the stacks
they should be arranged with an eye
to convenience 1 INTERESTING. The aim
should be to so place them that thew
could be thrown to the machine from
two sides. having an opening between
the two tiers of stacks in which the
machine could be moved forward from
time to time.
To allow the crop to waste after 1t
has been grown is nothing short Of q
crima.