CHAPTER V 



THRESHING WITH A REGULARLY EQUIPPED 

 SEPARATOR 



THIS chapter will deal with the threshing of those 

 grains and seeds which may be successfully handled 

 by a regularly equipped separator. It will include 

 the threshing of wheat, rye, oats, barley, flax, buckwheat, 

 millet and speltz or emmer. Those grains and seeds which 

 cannot be threshed successfully without special attach- 

 ments, or additions to a regularly equipped separator, will 

 be treated separately in the following chapter. 



Headed Grain. The bulk of the grain grown at the 

 present time is cut by harvesters and is delivered to the 

 threshing machine in bundles. There are localities, how- 

 ever, in which all, or nearly all, the grain is cut by headers 

 and delivered to the separator loose. Bound grain is sup- 

 posed to be fed to the cylinder, "heads first," and when so 

 fed, the work of the cylinder is made easy as the straw 

 holds the heads while the grain is being knocked out of 

 them. This cannot be the case with headed grain, as usu- 

 ally but little straw is left on the heads, because, to keep 

 the bulk small, the header is run just low enough to get 

 the heads. Other things being equal, headed grain is, 



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