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ployed. As the wagon 1s 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 
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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 
