HARVESTING 



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Stacking the Wheat. - Throughout the more 

 humid wheat-growing districts, much of the 

 wheat is stacked before threshing. This is be- 

 cause it has not been considered economical to 

 have machines enough in the community to 

 thresh all the wheat promptly when dry. So 



FIG. 34. Loading wheat bundles into the rack to be hauled to the stack. 



while some thresh out of shock, many others stack 

 their grain rather than to wait several days or 

 weeks for a threshing machine. They know that 

 during this wait their yield may be impaired both 

 in quantity and quality by rain. 



The stacks are made by arranging the bundles 

 so as to protect the heads and shed the rain. 

 Hence in stacking, the butts of the bundles are 



