WASTE IN MACHINE THRESHING.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 125, 1 March 1879, Page 3

WASTE IN MACHINE THRESHING.

Owing to a spirit of rivalry among the owners of threshing machines, a great deal of wheat goes into the straw stack. 'When the straw is fed to stack the the wheat is not all lost ; _ but in some sections only a small portion of it is so fed, and every bushel thrown into the stack is a useless waste. In order to get a large quantity of straw through the machine, the conclave is lowered and much grain passed without being threshed ; and if the straw is very dry and bundles small, with a high speed, much grain that is threshed is blown over the separator into the stack. There is no machine, as they are now but will do a good job of threshing if properly managed, but owing to the trickery of the threshers and the false economy of the farmers there is an almost incredible waste. The false economy mentioned is when the farmer thinks that it is all profit to get his stock of grain rushed through the machine in the shortest possible space of time. The wise farmer addresses the machineowner thus :—Now I don't want any nonsense about this threshing. I want all the wheat there is in the straw, and I want you to take time enough to do it clean ; I am willing to board all hands and feed the teams, and pay you a fair price for threshing. I don't want you to rush it through, and take out the thickest of my wheat and throw the rest away for the sake of making you a reputation for a fast thresher. Do me a good job and I will give you a better reputation than you can gain by rushing and trickery. Put-my wheat in the granary and my straw in the. stack, and I will pay you for it. That is true economy. —N. Y. Tribune.