Mexico Missouri message., 1917-07-05
FARMERS PROFIT
BY RE-THREsHING
One Man Saved 131 Bushels of
Wheat-Watch The Separator
"New Teeth, Low Speed"

signed by B. b. F. Bush, president of
the Missouri Pacific and member of
the Missouri Council of Defense, has
been circulated among farmers along
that road with a view to encourag-
ing them to guard against losses to
themselves and to humanity thru
carelessness in threshing. Recog
nizing the bulletin as of interest al
so to farmers not on that road, the
Message reprints 1t in full.
At Kiowa, Kansas, August Hauser
had a field of lao acres that threshed
last summer at a cost of IL cents a
bushel. Thereafter he noticed that
the wheat straw contained consider
able wheat grain. This came to him
when he was hauling it in for bed
ding. He decided to re-thresh it as
an experiment and the work was han
died in 20 hours by the same rig
that originally threshed it at cost
of about $1.00 per bushel for the
wheat recovered. The orig.na job
was lIor piece OF work, but Mr..
Hauser thinks that threshing is be-
ing rushed to such an extent that
there is agreat deal Of the same
grade of work being done thruout
the country. The wheat threshed
last summer was No. 2 and weighed
81 and 62 pounds. That just recov-
cred was was of the same grade, and
weighed SO and 60 pounds. There
were 131 bushels of it, selling on the
Kiowa basis at $3.50 a bushel. The
Kiowa News Review of April 27,
commenting upon the above, says:
From the Hauser farm the thresh-
ing outfit went to the Joe Hesler
farm and similar results were obtain
ed by threshing the straw over"
While 1t would be possible to get
all the grain out on the first thresh-
ing if proper attention were paid to
it, there can be no question but that
good wheat is being left in the straw
by poor adjustment of threshing ma
chimes.
Some years ago, on his fathers
farm near Lexington, KY, B. H.
Payne was told by neighbor that it
paid to rake the stubble so as to save
the wheat lost from the sheaves. The
binder seemed to have been handled
carefully and all the grain to have
been shocked and stacked, but the
farmer insisted that every stubble
field looks clean until you put rake
on it; so the Payne boy raked their
20 acres of stubble; after paying the
cost of hauling and threshing, the
wheat recovered in this way brought
$65,35.
In Hauser's case, the threshing ex-
pense was IL cents per bushel for the
2,52O bushels of wheat threshed from
the 140-acre field, plus the 131 bush
els of No. 2 wheat thrown out by the
fan and the stacker.
In Payne's case, it was an extra
shocking and hauling expense of
about $500.
OF course, no farmer is going TO
pay such threshing and hauling bills
If he knows it. And, if he remembers
to look into the matter, he will know
it. Therefore this is be-
ing printed only as a reminder and
in the hope that it may serve to pre-
vent loss of grain; for our best in
formation is that when the
wheat in sight in the world is grown
and ground and baked into bread,
not al the world will have been fed,
NOR other wheat have been grown and
ground
The Missouri Council of Defense,
at its meeting June 22 in the Govern
or's office at Jefferson City, adopted
the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Missouri Coun-
Gil of Defense recommends that the
farmers in Missouri use all their eff
forts to save every stalk of the wheat
in the harvest fields. especially by
urging upon the man operating the
threshing machine the necessity of in
serting new teeth in the concaves of
the separators, at the same time us
ing low speed, so that all the wheat
can be. saved, much of 1t now, be-
cause of these defective teeth in the
concaves being blown over into the
straw-stack."
John Galeener of sikeston, who in
troduced the resolution, declared
that thousands of bushels of wheat
Fare wasted at every harvest.
Mrs. Vernon Morris visited in Lad
! donsa last Waek