Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-14
SHOCK GRAIN
WITH MACHINE
Ingenious Device Which May Do
Away With Hand Shocking
Being Tried Out.

For many years efforts have been
made to perfect a machine which
would successfully shock grain, but
up to a short time ago, no successful
substitute had been found for the
human machine, which does the
work for from 81 to 50 per day, plus
eats, which, in the case Of a husky
hand. Is an item not to be sneezed
at In reckoning up the total.
Now comes q machine which prom,
Uses to be Al success, at any rate, lt
has seemed to give satisfaction in all
places where 1t has been tried so far.
P~erfectlne Machine.
The patent on this machine is own
ed 10y the international Harvester Co.,
and for four or five years past they
have been busy perfecting the ma
chine. The original idea came from
a young man In Iowa, G. r. Rainey,
of Humboldt, who sold it to the com.
pany. The company has. improved
on the idea, and this year manufac-
tured a few hundred OF the machines
for the purpose Of giving them a thor
ough test under all conditions.
Trying It Out.
One was tried out at Mott, anOth-
er at Thinner, and one Is in success
full operation on the farm of A. Boley,
six miles from Mandan. Mr.. Boley
expresses himself as pleased with
the work of the machine, and many
people have gone to the farm to see
the ingenious device at work.
How It Works.
The shock is attached back of
where the bundle carrier is ordinar-
lily placed. 1t runs on its own wheels
and the main part of 1t Is a rack IN
which the bundles are placed when
bound. The bundl s are bound and
kicked out from the binder onto an
arm with sharp prongs sticking up
1t. This arm receives the bundle,
and swinging 1t up and in a half
circle directly to the rear, deposits
1t with the butt of the bundle to the
In the rack. With each alter
nate bundle, the arm swings to the
right and to the left, by means Of a
ratchet device, SO that the bundles
are laid In two piles, slightly over.
tapping. as in an ordinary shock, in
OF being laid one on top of an
other, or at haphazard.
Shock 10 Bound.
When the rack is full, about ten
bundles, q large needle over the rack,
threaded with ordinary Irvine, binds
the entire shock and simultaneously
trip releases the rack, which tips |
up. depositing the shock on the
ground. IA small board, dragging be-
hind, receives the butts OF the for
ward bundles, anu keeps the shock
from dragging in the stubble and tip !
ping forward. Very few shocks are
over. Or twisted, though Of
course the machine is not intended
Tor use in very hilly or rough coun.
Try. and nc machine not even a man,
can make q perfect shock of badly
bundles.
10 Economical.
X. c. Battey, manager OF the local
branch Of the international Harves-
ter Company, states It as his belief
hat the machine Is the greatest con-
'rfbution to farm machinery in Is
years The shocker, he says, uses
ordinarily about q half pound Of
wine to the acre, value 5 cents. The
lifetime of the machine is estimated
~ the company at 1000 acres, and It
Will retail for 500. This makes the
wear and tear on 1t scents per acre,
! total of 10 cents as the cost per
'cre for machine shocking, as against
IN estimated cost of 80 to 40 cents
acre by hand.
Final Test.
The new machine will not be on
ale this summer, this seasons test
'eing the final n Of the completed
machine. The several hundred ma.
which are now on trial in
very part Of the country, and in
,very kind Of grain, will serve to
whether or not the ma.
'hine is a complete success. II 1t is,
J long stride will have been taken in
the labor problem of tie
Of the Northwest at harvest
line.