VoL. I-XXVII. 
I’ublislied Weekly at 333 W. 30th St., 
Xew York. 1‘rice One Dollar .a Y'ear. 
XEW YOUK. AT'CU’ST 10. lOlS. 
Entered as Second Class Matter at New York 
inider. the Act of Congress, March 3. 1879. 
No. 4494. 
A New Type of Grain Harvester 
It Harvest.s and Thrashes at One 1 ime 
W E AViint to e.xplaiu at the lie.trimiinp: that the 
remarkable machine pictured on this ])n"e 
M'ould not prohtihly Avork AA'itli miicli satisfaction on 
A our Eastern farm. It is tlie outconm of necessity— 
th.e chiid of peculiar conditions to he found in cer¬ 
tain parts of the Far West. The Depiirtmcnt of 
Agriculture ctilled our attention to certain machines 
AA'liieh hai'A'Cst, thrash and lia.ir the 
Srain at one operation. These ina- ,- 
chines traA'ol through the .araiii like 
a hinder or reaper or header, cuttin.a 1 
off tlie grain heads Avith part of the 
straAA'. This is carried to a separator 
or thrashing attachment AA'hich heats 
out the grain, fans it clean and de- 
liA-ers it into hags AAdiicli are sewed 
up and dropped on tlie ground. Thus 
this machine aauII start into a grain 
field, Avork along at the usual spiu'd. 
harvest the grain, spread tlie straw 
on the ground and leave an oA'en row 
of sacked grain hehind it—as we see 
in the picture. 
There are three types of these ma¬ 
chines. I'he one shown is the 
“Idaho,” Avhich is said to he the des¬ 
perate invention of a farmer Avho 
Avas hrought face to face Avith ruin. 
This man found that his liarve.sting 
expenses took all his earnings. In 
a country of hig farm enterprises the 
smaller farmer was compelled to hire 
a hig creAV of men and teams to 
harvest his grain 
and then hire an¬ 
other hig one to 
stack and thrash it. 
The large farmers 
Avith full capital 
could do this, hut 
the farmer Avith .*100 
acres or less could 
not keep up Avith the 
game. 
So thi.s man Avorked 
out a machine for 
cutting and thrash¬ 
ing all at one opera¬ 
tion, and thus saving 
all expense for twine 
and for hauling, 
stacking, sliocKing 
and pitching. Na¬ 
ture favored such a 
plan, for out in that 
country it seldom or 
never rains during 
harvest, so that the 
straAV is kept dr.y. 
In order to Avork 
such a machine prop¬ 
erly the variety of 
Avheat mu.st he uniform in height, it must ripen 
uniformly and the heads must hold the grain se¬ 
curely. Many of our ICastern varieties Avould not 
ansAA'er at all, for they Avould shell out at a touch 
of the machine if the grain stood until it could he 
thrashed, but in Idaho and Montana the grain dries 
out on the plant—all ready for thrashing, Avhile 
the varieties used hold onto their grain like a miser 
liinching money. 'That is av1i.v Ave have .stated tliat 
this machine will not invve so satisfactory in more 
humid climates. Avhere the grain must usually 
“SAveat” out in the stack. 
The picture shoAvs the machine at Avoi-k in a 
AAheat field. In this cjis(‘ it is “pushed" \)y eight 
hoi'ra'S, Avalking hehind it. 'I'lu' horses may. if re¬ 
quired, h(' hitduMl in front Avith a hitcli which lets 
tile horses AA'alk at the side out of the grain. A 
tractor can he used in the .same Avay. or hehind or 
at the side. One man drives the hoi’ses or tractoi’, 
.another hags the grain and keeps an eye on the 
.4 IiiiiL' of S(ich'<‘(] (Intin fjcft llrUituJ. FUj. 
a little platform. As one bag is filled another is 
lil.-ued beloAA' the spout. Avhile the Avorkmau seAvs up 
the full bag and drops it off on the ground. The 
thra.sher can he used alone if need he for thrashing 
peas, beans or other crops. 
Thus this machine Avalks into th(> grain field like 
a great giant Avith a thrasher on his back. lie cut.s 
the gi’ain AA’ith his sickle, tosses it up oA’er his shoul¬ 
der AA’here steel lingi'rs pick out the gram aud hag 
it and throAv the straAV iiAvay. It must ho a great 
lu'lp to the smaller f.'.rmer in these 
<lry regions, and is a goo 1 illustration 
of hoAV from earliest times' man has 
been forced b.A' necessity to deA'cloj) 
iieAv AA’ays of doing his AA’ork. He 
must either do that or abandon his 
.iob. .•ind Ave get an idea of the Avon- 
derful strength and poAver of farming 
AA’hen AVIA realiiu* Iioaa’. for years, men 
hang to old and Avorn-out methods 
aud still survive' ou the soil. .\nd 
this machine is, as Ave have stated, a 
product imule possible b.v the dry 
climate and peculiai' Avheat varieties 
of that section. Nature has iirotected 
the.s(' varieties by giving them an 
exti'a hard pinch upon their , 'ain 
and n'lnoviug the necessity for the 
grain to “sAveat.” so that it may be 
thrashed ;it once. Man.v .'in Eastern 
farmer Avill look longingl.v at this 
*m:i chine, for it Avould save him 
money and time if it Avouhl 
Avork. but the chances are that his 
clim.-ite and varieties Avould prove 
unsuited to this AVork, so he must 
stick to the binder, 
reaper, and, in some 
cases, tlie old-time 
grain cradle. 
llarvestin!/. Thraahiny and Hayyitiy at One Oi>cra iioti. Fw- -'tlO 
machinery, and the harvester does the rest. There 
is a nine-foot cut. and the cutter can be arranged 
to cut the grain at any height, so as to get beloAV 
all tlie grain heads. The reel turns as in any 
binder or header, and carries the straAv or heads 
up the platform and delivers it directly onto the 
separator, Avhicli Ave see at the top. Here the cylin¬ 
der thraslies out and clean:- the grain. The straAV 
drops out behind evenly. Avhile the grain is spouted 
at one side to bags, Avliicb we see iu the picture ou 
Cotton and Wool 
T he results 
OF OIlGxVNI- 
ZATION.— In a trade 
.iournal, a feAV Aveeks 
hack, AA'e read that 
there Avas a conven¬ 
tion of bankers, 
jilanters and others 
interested in cotton, 
in Ncav Orleans, and 
one of the plans 
adopted Avas to send 
a hanker and a pro¬ 
ducer fx'om each 
State, to protect the 
price, and iioav Ave 
quote from the dail.v 
press: 
Washington, .Tuly 
17. 1918. — Cotton 
groAvers and others in¬ 
terested in the indus¬ 
try conferred here to¬ 
day Avith officials of 
the Department of 
Agriculture, the War Industries Board. Shipping Board, 
Federal Reserve Board and other Government agencies, 
presenting their opposition to any price-fixing, or other 
restrictions by the Government. 
The cotton interests of the Avhole South are united, 
and the man, or the capitalist, or manufacturer Avho 
Avants any of the staple, pays Avhat the South says. 
Politics, finance and production see to that. At the 
beginning of the Avar, AAdien there Avas little export, 
and the price Avas Ioav. these interests instigated 
a “buy-a-bale” moveuieut aud the price rallied, but 
