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THE CEREALS IN AMERICA 



The header cuts a swath twelve and twenty feet wide, and 

 is usually pushed by four horses. An ordinary day's work ia 

 fifteen to thirty acres. 



i66. The Combined Harvester and Thresher. — This machine 

 is a combined header and threshing machine. The standard 



machine of this type cuts 

 a swath eighteen feet 

 wide, the cutter bar being 

 attached directly at the 

 side and forward end of 

 the thresher. The headed 

 grain is conveyed to the 

 thresher, which is made 

 to operate by being 

 pulled over the ground 

 by twenty-eight horses oi 

 mules. The animals are 

 hitched in three sets of six, then two sets of four. In front 

 of these are t\vo, and to this pair alone are lines attached. It 

 requires four men to operate this machine: one to drive, one 

 to tilt cutter bar, one to sew filled sacks and dump upon 



The combined harvester and thresher, propelled by 

 traction engine, with an extension to platform and 

 sickle bar, making it possible to cut a swath forty 

 feet wide. 



Separator with grain feeder, wind stacker and grain weigher. 



ground from time to time as they accumulate in groups of six 

 or eight, and one to have general charge of the machine. Five 

 to seven hundred bushels of wheat may be harvested, threshed 

 and sacked with one of these machines in a day. There are 



