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Show v THE BINDER OR THE HEADER. E. E. Joyncr. . I dm surprised that thc peoplp of Colorado do not employ mord head era in cutting their groin crops. 1 have tried both heading and bindiiv. wheat and find thc odds all in favor of the header. Seven men and six teams, at a cost of $21 a day not in eluding board1, will cut and stuck ' twenty-five acres of heavy wheat in n day. To do the same amount of work with a binder will require two nn chines each cutting n seven-foo' swath, six men and four teams at i cost of $16 a day. Then there is always al-ways a bill attached for twine, at ths rate of thirty cents an acretrr $7.30.1 day, making; a total of $23.50. As soon at headed grain is cut it i: in the stack, and the' gtoimd it rend 71 to be disked preparatory to begin I plowing while tjie bound wheat still I has to be hauled to thc thresher. Seven teams at $21 a day will haul the drop from forty acre which is at tha rate of fifty cenlt an acre. The first cost of the machine is another item which must be reckoned. A header costing $180 will cut as much whet in thc sarnie length of time as two binders costing $130 apiece. The life of a. header is twice as long as that ' of the binder, making. the $i3o head?, cut as many acres of wheat at would four biudcrs at a cost of $320. Of course, the man with . small field can cut his wheat with m, binder ami perhaps per-haps stack it with his own help and not be out anything except for twins but the big field mul be harvested with hired help and thc heavy machines ma-chines that do the fast work arc th; best to use. Another advantage in heading i-j that most of the straw i left in thc field to be plowed under which adds humus and keeps up the fertility of the soil. Th short headed wheat, well put up in big stacks will keep better Han will hound wheat either in the 'shock or tack. On some of the larger ranches reec.vin wagolis arc sent long to 1 , w,v the crop. J After the steel blades havj cut the I wheat about five inches below th- I head the loose heads are lifted to 1 I platform resting en the wagon which ;'N . ..,:. , , 1 movos with thc cuttar. As rapjdly as a wagon is filled another moves up and tftkes its place. Thc common t header as operated on the great plains 1 is such a simple contrivance that a kid can run -it and evtn girls at? sometimes employed in managing tho header box as it is most of'.en called. Denver Field and Farm. |