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machine are the main reasons why this machine has not been 

 perfected to the extent that it could be manufactured and 

 sold in the usual way. 



Construction. As usually constructed, ■ the corn picker, 

 sometimes called the corn picker-husker, has dividers which 

 straddle a row of standing stalks and gather them into an 

 upright position similar to the action of a corn harvester. 

 Then the stalks are run through rollers set at an incline and 

 provided with spirals in such a way that the stalks are con- 

 veyed back as fast as the machine is moved forward. These 

 rollers pinch off the ears, which fall into a conveyor at one 



Fig. 159. A corn picker-husker at work. 



side of the rollers and are carried to the husking rolls. These 

 rolls revolve in pairs, and, by means of steel studs or husking 

 pins set in the rolls, grasp the husks and pull them from the 

 ears. The husked ears and the shelled corn are then 

 elevated into a wagon drawn beside the machine. The 

 better machines have a fan for blowing out the chaff and 

 husks and saving all of the corn. 



The corn picker-husker is one of the heaviest of field 

 machines, and under average conditions requires five large 

 or six medium-large draft horses to draw it. A driver is 

 required, and two men or boys with teams and wagons are 



