THE WHEAT INDUSTRY 



els per day, and with the largest size 4000 bushels 

 per day, are not unusual. These figures are for the 

 outfits that make threshing a business during the 

 season. In some districts there are individually 

 owned machines with capacities of only 200 or 



300 bushels per 

 day, but they 

 have not met 

 with much favor 

 in the wheat 

 countries of the 

 New World. In 

 some European 

 countries, espe- 

 cially France 

 and Germany, 

 the smaller out- 



FIG. 47. The straw stack as built by the wind- fits are Widely 

 stacker or blower. It is well named, the strawpile. ,-p,, 



used. 1 hey in- 

 volve more hand labor than the larger threshers, 

 inasmuch as they are not supplied with automatic 

 band cutters, feeders, grain weighers, and elevators, 

 or straw stackers. All this work must therefore 

 be done by hand. Where labor is cheap and 

 plentiful, this is not a serious objection ; but 

 where labor is high, and sometimes almost im- 

 possible to obtain at the season of the year 

 when most needed, it gives to the automatic de- 

 vice a decided advantage. 



