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the unthreshed wheat is bulky to haul long dis- 

 tances. This plan is therefore generally followed 

 only where the regions are made up of small 



FIG. 52. The wagons are arranged side by side at the thresher to receive the 



grain. 



fields or where the straw is to be used either as 

 rough feed or bedding for cattle. 



Where farms are large, the threshing is per- 

 formed in the field. If threshing is done out of 

 shock, different settings are made in order to lessen 

 the haulage of the unthreshed wheat ; if out of 

 stack, the stacks have been grouped in different 

 parts of the field for the same reason. The dis- 

 tances vary from a few rods to a mile or more, but 

 generally field haulage of unthreshed wheat does 

 not average much more than a quarter of a mile. 



