The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-27
lRr THOMAs CANPBELLl

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w re have developed a new meth
w Cd of harvesting and thresh-
w ing which is quite the biggest
thing we have ever done. IL is, / be-
lieve. almost as revolutionary as the
invention of the binder and will do
more to solve the great economic
problem OF farm labor than any meth
cd which has been developed since
the invention of the harvester. 1t,
like many other improvements in OPP
Grating efficiency, goes back to the
original ideas, and we now take the
grain from a common WindroW such
as was originally produced with the
Old-fashiOned cradle, and harvest 1t
with a moving thTeshing machine.
The modern binder as invented by
Deering and Mccormick was a de-
velOpment of the old cradle whereby
the grain was first cut and deposited
in windows. Later this frain was
bound in bundles with what was
known as a s%elf-binder, later a bundle
carrier was attached to the binder, so
that the bundles could be deposited
IN bundle-rOws, and finally a shock
ing device was invented which took
eight to ten of these bundles, stood
them on end, bound a Irvine around
the entire number and set them up
in the field, already shocked, for
the threshing machines, moved onto
the field and these bundles we're col
lected by horses and wagons with
racks, and hauled to the machine fol
threshing. In recent years shock
loading machines have been used to
0--l AL--- ~L1o1r until Ahn wanHnRm
threshing machine is almost an en-
tiTely mechanical operation, with very
little manual labor.
The New Method
The new method takes us back tt
the original windows, as shown il
Picture No. 3 and No. ga, and the
moving harvester, as shown in Pic
tUre No. 4, operated by three men
does the work of % and 80 horses
And, in addition, it eliminates
three of the four men shown on eacl
binder string in Picture No. 2. Tn
Irvine necessary to tie the bundles
and the cost of shocking the bundles
is also eliminated at a total saving
of approximately two dollars pc
acre. It costs about four dollars pei
dCAG " L4AC TIC 6A04A 4AOm tA0 oeG4,
ing field, as shown in Picture No.
and deposit in the grain box. 1t cost
two dollars an acre to achieve tn
same results under the new method
as shown in pictures No. 3 and 4.
Suitable to Any Size Farm
Heretofore most of our improve
ments and new ideas have been 70
use on large farms only, but thi
new method of harvesting and TIRES
ing is even more applicable to tn
small farm than the large farm, an
the farmer with $40 of Ian
can save enough in n year to Blu.
a combine harvester and other equiv
ment necessary to do the work on
farm Of that size. A farmer wit
100 acres of land can save enoug
in four years to pay for the equiI
ment, and most of this equipment ca
be purchased on four years time b
responsible farmers. I have discus
ed new method with represent
tives of. our state agricultural co
leges, with Mr.. M. L. Wilson, hea
of the bureau Of Farm Economics
the Department OF Agriculture, an
they feel that this will do more
reduce the operating costs and sOlV
the great economic problem of far
labor than anything which has bee
developed in many years.
Solving the Labor Problem
The farm TABOR situation has q
ways been a serious problem in ha
vest time, as the farmer has require
a great many additional men for
short period during the harvest al
t%hreshing seasons. This has alWa