Show Machines Waste Valuable Grain I Loss of T Time and and Money Prevented by Good Care of Thresher Prepared by the United States Stales Department of ot Agriculture If It a man In New York were to bu buy buya n a ticket et for San Sari Francisco and then walk valk to Chicago before boarding the train you yon would think him foolish In in- in deed Yet Is not the time farmer who plows his fields and sows his grain cures cares for It through the Ion long summer and carefully harvests the crops only upon threshing the time bundles of loaded grain to blow a large part of It over Into the straw pile liable to the same samue accusation 7 Inefficient clent operation of ot threshing machines I Is responsible for fora a great many bushels of wasted grain ays the United States Department of or Agriculture Time and Grain Lost Any standard threshing machine will do Its work with ver very little waste of ot grain or loss of time If kept In In Ingo go good gond Ml condition adjusted properly for forthe forthe forthe the particular Job on which It Is engaged engaged engaged en en- furnished with the proper amount of at power applied correctly rind and watched Intelligently while In iii op op- Nevertheless it Is true that thata a n great greot amount of time Is lost and a n lar large e amount of grain wasted unnecessarily In threshing All AI thresher manufacturers have 1 1 1 01 n c. c l' l Ul UlU U LL LV LU H LIU 3 as ns efficient as os possible and the construction construction con con- such that the they will give a minimum of trouble However there are so many parts ports to a n threshing machine machine ma ma- chine and It must work under such a wide range of conditions that numerous numerous numerous numer numer- ous adjustments must be left for Cor the operator to make In the Held field and careful attention Is required for Its successful operation If It a machine falls fails to separate all nIl of ot the grain from the time straw It Is usually due to one or more of the time following causes 1 The machine Is not being run at It Its proper speed 2 the time c cylinder cylinder lIntIer lIn der tIer falls fails to thresh all nIl of t the I kernels out of ot the time heads 3 the separating mechanism Is not level or 4 the blast Is not adjusted properly Crop Owner Interested Naturally the Is not so vitally concerned In getting every bushel of at grain from the straw as Is the time crop owner because It only means menns two or three cents to him for each bushel saved whereas to the crop owner It me means ns the price of the entire entire en en- tire bushel a 0 matter of 50 or GO CO cents or more depending upon th the kind of or grain being threshed and the time price of It on the market The crop owner therefore should be bo versed In the operation operation op op- of the machine and at nt least know whether the time separator man has his machine adjusted for time the most efficient efficient efficient ef ef- ef- ef results possible Farmers' Farmers Bulletin mn Issued by the time United States Department of Agriculture Agriculture ture has been written for the time Information mation matlon of farmers who have grain thre to do and discusses the time various points to watch In the time efficient operation of ot the time threshing machine A copy mn may be bc secured as long as the time supply lasts by writing to the time United States Department Deportment of at Agriculture Washington |