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ployed. As the wagon is driven over the empty 

 table a man on either side loads on the piles of brush 

 from the adjacent tables. The seed heads are piled 

 on the rack in a double row with the butts lapping 

 at the middle in order to hold the piles in place. By 

 means of the dumping arrangement shown in the 

 cut, the work of unloading is accomplished very 

 quickly. After dropping a lever to the ground the 



Fig. 11. Dump wagon for hauling the brush from the field. 



wagon is pulled forward until the bed is shoved 

 back and tilted so that the rear end rests on the 

 ground. The end gate is now removed and a second 

 forward movement of the wagon allows the brush 

 to slip off onto the ground in the same order as it 

 was piled on the wagon. 



Sorting. During harvest a number of plants will 

 be found bearing heads with coarse thick centers 

 or with brush so snarly as to be of no value. These 

 plants should be discarded and left in the field uncut. 

 In addition to these useless plants there will always 



