Year: 1876




following well timed remarks from a.
Western Journal.


Good clean wheat without cracked
or cut kernels in it will always sell
more readily and at a better price
than wheat foul with weeds, seeds.
and chaf, and full of cut or bruised
grain.


Threshers are apt to manage in a
way to secure their own interest rath.
er than that of the owner of the grain,
by rushing the work so as to put
through large amount of grain and
increase the average profits for their
labor. The farmer who has raised a
good crop of plump wheat has only
himself to blame if he allows the
threshing machine to do the work in
an mWOrkmanlike manner. The most
OF the threshing is done by men who
own the machines and go about from
farm to farm threshing by the bushel,
so that the more grain that is put
through the machine in a day the
greater will be the profits, and are apt
to act on this principle by crowding
their machines to their greatest capac.
ity.


With careful management on the
part of of the machine men, a great
saving may be made to the farmer,
and satisfactory results to themselves;
for with the improved machinery,
which has been brought almost to per-
lection during the last few years, the
work may be done we'll and rapidly
enough to satisfy the ambition of the
thresher, or the economizing spirit of
the farmer. AS the machine brings
with it large gang of men and horses
to pay and feed, the farmer naturally
feels some as the owner of the ma.
chine does, that he would like to get
through with the job as soon as posi-.
BILE. So while the hurry may be on
both sides, the loss from the sighted
work all comes off of the farmer.
Grain may be and often is wasted in
the cutting and handling, but the great.
er waste is in the single operation of
threshing, often without anybody's
knowing it or stopping to think about
it. Insist on saving all the grain pos.
sible, and have the work we'll done.
Barring the danger Of fire, steam is the
most economical power for thresing
purposes, giving a more steady speed
to the machine, SO if the grain is fed
through at an even rate, there is no
danger of the grain being blown
through with the chaff, at the moments
of high speed.


Besides, it is decided cruelty to an
imals to press horses into succession
OF full days work running the thresh-
ing machine during midsummer, while
the days are long, the heat oppressive,
and the flies infict their severest pun
ishment. Give the horses all the pro-
lection they can have from the flies,
and the machinery will be less liable
to be broken and the grain wasted by
an irregular motion.


AS the straw has now become mat
ter of great Importance, it shonld be
put upon the stack over a carrier. In
this way the chaff and whatever grain
which would be otherwise wasted, by
being left scattered upon the ground
on account of it's fneness, and the
pitchers not being able to put it upon
the stack by the use of fork,
would be saved.


Ordinarily we think it economy to
put grain in the stack during a suffi-
cient time for it to go through a sweat
before threshing, for no doubt it i'm
proves the condition and quality of the
grain to some extent, will require
less help on threshing days, and the
delay would be in favor of the straw
while it is not exposed to the summer
rains. Of course when the farmer is
compelled to sell soon after harvest,
he had better thresh out of the shock,
and for no other good reason would
we advise threshing grain before or
during "dog days.


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