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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 3

During a recent demonstraiion ut nov» high-speed farui machinery at Noblcsville CU.S.A.), wheat from a grain field was cut, thrashed, ground into flour, and baked into biscuilf. in exactly thirty-t'our minutes. The standiug grain was cut by means of a tractorpulled machine equipped with a thraslier cylinder which removes and cleans ihe grain, duiups.it into tvvo-bush'el sack«, aud piles'these four at a time in tho field. Tlie struw is blown out behiud the machine spreading evenly over the field to act as fvrtiliser. A truck, rolling along, after the combined harvestei and thraslier, pielted up the sacks. In tlie demcnstration, the grain was then ground and a farmer's wife turned this flour 4nto piping hot, buttered biscuite which were back in tlie field where the wheat had grown in just four minute3 more than half tui kour after the opcrai tious startcl.