The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-07-18
Montana, 26.00 bushels per day.

Montana, 26.00 bushels per day.
Minnesota, 49.08 bushels per day.
The estimated total saving for 81
states in which the work was carried
on was 21,903,60O bushels.
@e This movement should interest both
threshermen and farmers, the thresh-
erman by means of the test is more
able to check up the work being done
by his machine and can turn out more
grain per day, which means money to
both himself and the farmer. After
the faults of machine are once To-
Gated and corrected, it is an easy mat
ter to check up occasionally and keep
the machine running with the least
waste.
The farmer can save great deal of
grain by the following methods:
Raking the shokrows, using tight bot
tom bundle wagons for shock thresh-
ing, by careful and thorough cleanup
around the machine and the use of
large canvas spread on the ground
under the feeder to catch the grain
which skaters out in the process of
feeding and that which leaks out
around the front end of the machine.
AS to the raking of the scatterings
along the shockrows, in Wisconsin one
field of % acres gave yield of 1876
bushels. In Oklahoma 80 acres gave
10 bushels in one case, and in another
| 70 acres gave SIS bushels. Oklahoma
reports saving of 5,063 bushels from
the raking of scatterings on 144 farms.
| Kansas reports saving II bushels per
acre, and Illinois Il bushel per acre
The use of tight bottom bundle wag-
! ons in North Dakota saved between
600 and 800 bushels in threshing 1000
acres. In Wisconsin it is estimated
that 100000 bushels of wheat were
saved by tight bottom wagons.
Illinois reports saving of from
pecks to 1 bushel per day for each
wagon thus equipped.
The blanket test for testing out ma
chimes was thoroughly explained and
illustrated by moving pictures.
H. E. Murdock, agricultural engin-
eer, from the agricultural college at
Bozeman followed by giving the devel-
opment Of the modern thresher. In
brief, Mr.. Murdock said: Beginning
with the two general methods used:
treading with animals and beating
with flail. This was followed up to
1850 and the daily capacity of this
method by Thomas was Z bushels
wheat, Is bushels oats, Is bushels bar
ley, 8 bushels rye, 20 bushels buck
wheat.
When western nations first realiz.
ed the absolute necessity of more food
they were confronted with the diff.
Guilty of obtaining it without proper
tools. 1t was found that the old hand
methods and crude instruments used
were too slow and expensive. The
invention of the steam engine and the
subsequent rapid industrial develop.
ment started the migration of agricul.
tural labors to large cities, which ir
turn increased the demand for greater
food production to feed factory work.
ers..
Inventors Immediately set to work
to solve the various problems in the
manufacture of labor saving agricul
tural machinery. The early expert
mental work on threshing machines
was done in Scotland. A Scotchmar
named Michael Menzies devised ma
chine about the year 1850 which was
the forerunner of the threshing ma
chine. 1t consisted of several fails
operated by water power. This ma
chine was not practical. In 1853 Mr.
Lechie of Sterlingshire, England, in
vented machine with arms attached
to a shaft and enclosed in case
which gave the idea for the more sue
cessful machines later. Andrew Meik
lie devised machine with revolving
cylinder having four iron clad beate1
bars extending outward from the bod,
of the cylinder inches and the grai1
was fed in over the top of the cylin
der, in place of concaves a close fit
: ting cover fitted behind and partl!
around the cylinder. Mr.. Atkinson
of Yorkshire contributed teeth to tn
cylinder and pegs which acted as con
caves. A little later straw carrie
or elevator was added, which, with
, winnowing machine or tanning mill
|, made up the essentials of a moderl
| grain thresher. While the correc
! fundamentals Of threshing were work
ed out across the sea, it remained TO
/ the ingenuity of the American invent
or to perfect all the numerous detail
: which go to make up the successful
machine of today.
Simple threshers were used in tn
United States as early as 1925. Thre
: years later Samuel Lane of Main
!, took out patent. His machine wa
not commercial success, and it i
t noted here only to mark the date o
r improvement.