CHAPTER X. 

 THE GRAIN HANDLERS. 



, HE devices used to take the grain from the 

 grain auger and deliver it into sacks or 

 wagons, as the case might be, are called 

 "grain handlers." These are made in six 

 styles, some of which, in addition to elevat- 

 ing the grain, .weigh it and automatically 

 record the number of bushels threshed. 

 The weight of a, given quantity of grain varies according 

 to the kind and quality. Although almost universally sold 

 by the bushel, the number of bushels is determined by weight 

 so that the grain is actually sold by the pound. For example, 

 if the price of wheat be one dollar per bushel, one dollar will 

 purchase sixty pounds of wheat. Sixty pounds of heavy 

 wheat will not fill a bushel measure, but this weight of 

 light wheat will more than fill the measure. In the days 

 when there were no grain handlers, and the grain from the 

 separator was delivered into half-bushel or bushel measures, 

 it was usually customary to give "big measure/' By this 

 method, were a farmer to sell all of his grain, he would 

 receive pay for a greater number of bushels than he paid 

 the thresherman for, for threshing it. This custom of giv- 



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