Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0224Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a man driving a tractor in a field, a harvester is attached to the machine. Above the image "T153 (Star)" is printed, below the image "13719 Harvesting Barely - Combined Harvester and Threshing Machine Drawn by Tractor, near Fort Collins, Colo." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
199-(13719)
HARVESTING BARLEY WITH COMBINED HARVESTER AND THRESHING MACHINE DRAWN BY TRACTOR
This machine is a harvester and threster that is drawn by a tractor. The tractor which draws this heavy machine so easily takes the place of about twenty horses. The harvester and thresther needs but one man to mange it and does the work of about thirty men.
To understand how this machine saves so much time, work, and money, let us think what must be done to ripe barely before it is ready for use or market. It must be cut (harvested), and the grains of barley (the seeds of the plant) must be threshed out of the huskes in which they grow. Before machines for harvesting and thresing were made, men had to cut the grain by hand, stack it, and then thresh it. The thresing was done either with flails or by some other slow, hard method. In some parts of the world the old ways of harvesting and thresing are still used.
The left part of this machine cuts the tops off the grain as it stand in the field. then the tops (heads) of the grain faill on a canvas and are carried up into the thresher. The thresher has heavy iron teeth which quickly beat the grain from the husks. The husk (chaff) and straw are blown out and fall to the ground, and the barley is held in a large bin. As the machine moves across the field, cutting and threshing, the bin is gradually filled. Then it is emptied. Some mahines wigth the grain, put it in bags, and tie up the bags.
You will find that in mst parts of our country small reapers are used which cut the grain and bind it into sheaves. Different machines do the threshing. In most places, because of the climate, the grain is not dry enough to thresh as it is cut.
Index references: agricultural implements and machines; barley; farm work; flails; threshing.
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