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Show GRAIN LOADER DOES WORK OF HARVEST HANDS A labor saving agricultural machlnn described In tho May number of Popular Po-pular Mechanics Magazine, dispenses with harvest hands employed In tho field in loading grain to bo stacked or to supply a threshing machine. It 1b called a shockloa'der and will All a wagon rack In less than two and a half minute. It weighs 2800 lbs. Is drawn by four horses and Is operated operat-ed by tho driver alone, Tho principal princi-pal parts of tho machine nro tho "pickers" and threo carriers. Tho MlM pickers, whoso position Is analogous to that of the cutting bundles of grain and deposit them on a carrier by which they aro transferred to a horizontal carrier at the rear; frotn this tho grain Is raised on an inclined inclin-ed elevator and dropped Into wagons which move alongside the machine. The pickers aro 6-ln. spikes fastened to aG-ft. steel bar. They grasp the bundles and tho turning of the bar deposits themjon the carrier. The pickers also gather up tho loose grain about the shocks'. A 20-ln. drive-wheel drive-wheel operates the carriers, plcken, etc. The machine will do tho work of several men pitching bundles In tho Held and can load six wagons fast enough to supply a threshing outfit as rapidly as 12 wagons can under the old method. This loader Is also used advantageously In loading alfalfa, alfa-lfa, for It does not shake off tho dry leaves, ns Is done In hand loading. |