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Page 38 it close together was so when the threshing crew came later in the fall the threshing machine could set so the feeder would be between two stocks and the men could pitch into the feeder from both sides. I believe most of the larger outfits used binders to cut the grain. This way it had to be shocked. During the threshing the bundles were hauled to the machine and so eliminated moving the threshing machine so often. Either method was a lot of hard work and so the combine was invented and is here to stay until some one comes up with a better idea. |