16 - BULLETIN 1198, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
THRESHING PRACTICES AND RATES. 
The proportion of the threshing crew furnished by the farmer and 
by the thresherman was an influencing factor on the rate paid per 
bushel for threshing. In Missouri, and in Gage and Clay Counties, 
Nebr., the usual custom was for the farmer to furnish the entire 
threshing crew. In these counties, under these conditions, the 
average threshing rate varied from 10 cents per bushel in Gage County 
to 14 cents in Clay County, Nebr. On those farms where the thresher- 
man furnished the entire crew, the average rate varied from 15 cents 
per bushel for headed grain in Thomas County, Kans., to 32 cents for 
shock threshed grain in Carroll County, Mo. In counties where shock 
threshing was practiced and the field pitchers were furnished by the 
thresherman and the bundle haulers by the farmer, the threshing rate 
varied from an average of 12 cents per bushel in Cheyenne County, 
Nebr., to an average of 19 cents in McPherson County, Kans. (See 
Table 11.) 
TaBLE 11—Threshing practices and rates, winter wheat, 1920. 
PREVAILING THRESHING PRACTICES.1 
Part of crew furnished by— pase 
a aT a ea Bap ee per acre 
State and County. | Threshing done from— [2238 for 
’ produc-|rate per avers 
| Thresherman. “Farmer. | tion. bushel.| ( Son 
| | farms). 
Missouri: 5 | ae 
Pike County. ..... poe See ee Pea ene AN. 232 Sta 98} $0.12 $1.61 
. HOEK. 5. Sas Se as TS ee Ree JAE 2 68 =42 
Carroll County .--- (Shock Te he yi be eee ee bigs Sy epee tes | 23 32 | 2. 80 
Nebraska: 
Gage County--...- Shock: Rost CS, eee ee 6 ee a in eee 95 10 2. 28 
biShoe ke 26) as be a es ee ALS. ee 86 14} — 
Clay County .....- (stack (bundle grain)». __- SoM ee Bees 1 14 I 1.75 
Cheyenne County Shock --20-| al | oo] ay 
Kansas: 
Thomas County... -| Sick (reader eran). | oAN 2 oo 2. ee ee er eee 94 aS 2.10 
: {shocks eee Field pitchers.| Bundle haulers 46 =#9-| 
McPherson Coun- |!Stack (bundle grain).-| All. ..-.....--. | cave eee, 33} i7\t os 
ae (Stack (headed grain)..} All...........- eee See ee 19 eSB | ie 
Pawnee County...| Stack (headed grain)..| All... aeai| Soir ee ers ga} 117 | 2. 34 
Oklahoma: 
Shoek#:5.--4 3 eee PAS Se Se ee eee ee eee 63 .3l 
Garfield County---'\Shoek. 1222222222227 Field pitchers. Bundle haulers 15. ee \ 4.33 
Woodward County! Stack (headed grain)-.} All........5...).........-.----- $1 - 22 2. 03 
1 Inevery case the thresherman furnished the crew for operating the separator and engine and the farmer 
furnished the men and horses for taking care of the threshed grain. 
CREDITS. 
The value of the items which have been reported as a credit result- 
ing from the use or sale of wheat straw, the pasturing of the growing 
crop, and insurance received for losses to the wheat crop by fire or 
hail damage, is given in Table 12. 
A majority of the farmers considered the straw of little money 
value and often only that portion needed for bedding was saved. 
The remainder was left to rot or was burned in stacks im the field. 
The highest credits for straw occurred in Pike and Carroll Counties, 
Mo., where the acreage of wheat per farm was relatively small and 
the amount of livestock per farm relatively large, requiring a con- 
siderable amount of straw for the use of this stock Only a limited 
acreage of growing wheat was pastured and in only six instances was 
insurance received for losses by fire or hail damage. The average 
total credit was small, amounting to only 43 cents per acre. 
