HARVESTING 



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the grain is cared for by a man known as the 

 loader, who later pitches the grain into the stack. 

 The racks or header boxes are often driven by 

 young boys, since there is no hard work involved. 

 In some cases the grain is then unloaded into 

 small bunches or shocks but generally it is at 



FIG. 33. The completed shock. A typical illustration of the round shocks 



without cap sheaves. 



once made into rectangular shaped stacks. These 

 stacks are from 16 to 48 feet long and two or 

 four of them in a group are known as a setting. 

 In some cases where the wheat is very dry it is 

 threshed directly from the header box. This re- 

 quires four or six headers at work in the same field. 

 The use of the header in harvesting is rapid 



