Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-06-06
kansan Claims to Have Per.
fected Wonderful Work
Saving Machine.

Grain is hereafter not to be reaped.
but will be threshed i'm the field as it
stands, saving the farmer something
1 X 100000 900 a year. This Is the
claim of Frank Morse. who describes in
the Technical World Magazine the re-
cent invention of a Kansan, Curtis G..
Baldwin. The machine has been used
for three successive harvests. but
proved it's utility and practicability
most c~Onclusfvely last fall when it
threshed from % to 30 acres of stand
Ing grain in a 0-hour day. The in
ventor contends that 1t will reduce the
Cost OF the harvest from IA cents to =
cents a bushel. We read:
"The principle of the new-siyle
thresher il simple. A strong blast of
air from a revolving fan is blown
against the standing grain and forces
threshes off the grain, depositing Il in
y trough, from which it is elevated by
an auger to another toothed cylinder.
which rethreslnes it. The chaff is blown
out and the clean grain falls into Il
sack. OF may be carried through "A tube
to q wagon driven alongside. -Four
horses pull the thresher over the field,
while q small gasoline engine operates
the machine. Only two men are re-
Quired, n to drive the horses and the
other to tie the sacks of threshed grain
and look after the engine.
Is. MOI ZIG least advantage Chained IOF
the new machine is that it dispenses
with the ever present need of farm
hands 1t the harvest season. when grain
rOts in the field because Of the utter
impOssibility of getting men when most
they are needed. Every year an urgent
cry for harvest hands comes out of
Kansas, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,
TO be answered in large part by col
1ege students. b. no matter how ur-
gent the call, 1t Is impossible to get
enough men, and fields of grain stand
waiting the threshers when millions OF
dollars worth Of damage may be done
by the elements at any moment. The
new style thresher makes 1t possible
for f0ur horses and two men to har-
vest "A 160-acre oat field In n week.
What this means to the farm wife can
hardly be overestimated. 1t means an
end to the big meals over the hot stove,
whore she 10 compelled to toll, from
early morn until late at night, to feed
the hungry horde of harvest hands who
shove food intO their mouths as they
would grain n q hopper.
"The census experts show that more
than ], 800, 0OO.0 900 bushels OF wheat and
oats are produced In the United States
every year. The present cost Of thresh-
ing and sacking 10 approximately IA
cents u bushel, which MAKE the pres
ent harvest fee about $4,000. 900. Mr..
Baldwin claims that his machine re-
duceS price per Ou6Slel from IA
cents to 2 cents. which would reduce
the threshing tariff to about $4,000. 900.
an annual saving Of q fabulous for
tune ranging from q sixth to a quarter
of a billion dollars every year. The
saving in the wear and tear on the
farm wife and in the consumption Of
food by the hungry harvest hands can
hardly be computed, but 1t IL a consid-
cradle item, as everybody knows who
has ever seen a horde OF ~threshers
sweep down upon . we'll laden table.
like 17-year-old locusts ION a field Of
tender green sprouts.
with the ordinary thresher. as we'll
as my own, the threading il done prin-
cipaliy at the cylinder. say Mr.. Bald
win. With the ordinary machine. 1t
IL estimated that the grain passes the
cylinder at the rate of q mile Il min
ute. with my machine the grain passes
the cylinder as fast az horses can walk.
or about three and one half miles an
hour.sRYou can see that with my ma
chine the cylinder strikes the heads
n times where the ordinary machine
only strikes them once. l only use the
mile-a-minute cylinder AS a rethres1-
ing device. use the same principle
that Is used in blowing heavy corn fOd-
der into: q high silo and almost the
same principe that Is used IN Drawing
sand from fthe river and IN
cotton from q. wage.