THE WHEAT CULTURIST. 



303 



" A most important office performed by this machine 

 is the separation of the different-sized seed of the 

 same grain. Pass, for instance, ten bushels of wheat 

 through the screens ; one portion will be found a uni- 

 formly small grain ; another about medium ; a third, 

 large, plump and first rate. The first and third would 

 not be supposed to have grown in the same field. In 

 this way, excellent seed wheat may be obtained from an 

 ordinary crop; and the best bushel in fifty, or the best 

 ten bushels in fifty, may be separated at the option of 

 the farmer." 



HAKDER'S IMPROVED FANNING MILL. 



The illustration herewith given represents an im- 

 proved fanning mill 

 of a superior kind, 

 manufactured by 

 R & M. Harder, 

 Cobleskill, Schoha- 

 rie County, New 

 York. This mill 

 is adapted to clean- 

 ing all kinds of 

 grain and grass 

 seeds ; and, I be- 

 lieve, gives excellent satisfaction. Every farmer who 

 raises grain should possess an excellent fanning mill, 

 and always clean his seed grain thoroughly. 



DIBBLING ix WHEAT. 



The process of dibbling-in seed wheat consists in sim- 

 ply making a hole in the ground with one finger, or with 

 the end of a pointed stick about as large as a man's 



FIG. 48. Fanning Mill. 



