416 THE SMALL GRAINS 



taken from the platform by a carrier into a header box, 

 driven by the side of the header. The combined machine 

 has a thrasher attached, and the grain is cut, thrashed, 



FIG. 136. Harvesting with the combined harvester-thrasher in the 

 state of Washington. 



and bagged, and the bags dropped along the path of the 

 machine, while the straw is distributed over the field. 

 This machine is pulled either by twenty-eight to forty 



FIG. 137. Combined harvester- thrasher drawn by steam power. 



horses (Fig. 136) or by an engine (Fig. 137). In recent 

 years, a small combined machine, propelled like a header, 

 has come into use in the Palouse country, which appears 



