Show From Field to t Platform of the thc fin Object Lesson In Yip Up to io Dale Vate Method I ITHE 1 tL r ka r L i ip p j 1 t W Wt B V p 1 I 4 iii t Lr fe r Lj s I r t ta s i r w v I s ra raTHE r THE HUGE HARVESTER AT WORK THE RESULT T hat has repented repeatedly been predicted that within tho the next few years year the I labor problem so far as asIt asit It applies to largo farmers will have ceas ceased ceas ed to exist This con condition condition was expected to toto tobe tobe be to brought about by automobile her hal run by steam naphtha or gaso gasoline line The Ideal machine It was wa pre pro predicted predicted dieted would harvest many acres a s day the labor of but one man mall It Is II needless to say that this machine has haa not yet been perfected and yet It Is le a II fact that Jh wildest promise has In some respects been surpassed by a reaper which Is le ovary every day working on several Oregon farms This reaper herewith Illustrated after efter It has pasted through a II field leaves loaves behind It a trail of sacked grain which a following wag wagon wagon wagon on picks up so that fre frequently frequently frequently within an hour after the tho grain is le standing In the field It li is lion on the plat platform platform form of the railroad station awaiting the coming of the train which shall car carry carry I ry It to Its Ih destination This Tile particular machine is II drawn by thirty horses which should serve to give an Idea of its Ita enormous also alie and capacity Natu Naturally Naturally Naturally rally no driver In the world could han handie handie die dle the ribbons ribbon ordinarily necessary for so many animals and therefore the Intelligence of the horses Is an Import tent tant factor in the time successful working of the machine machino All that is required of the animals however outside of docil ity Is II that they be bo sufficiently Intelli Intelligent gent to follow the leaders The Tho out outside outside outside side horses of the front row must of course be bo well trained for if they go wrong all go wrong When tho the grain Is U cut It Is I carried by a II traveler up the runway into the thrasher being proper properly ly Iy straightened on its Ita way thither There the tho grain is II separated from the hulls and straw It raw and after going through tho the sonic slime processes as In an nn or ordinary stationary thrashing machine it Is carried down a n shoot Into the tho bag When the tho bag is filled It Is pushed to tho the edgo of the tho carriage by the man mall whose solo sole duty aside from that Is I tho the tying of a apiece piece of string around the neck of each bag baa When several bags have havo accumulated they are aro pushed off of to the tho ground whence they ore are prompt promptly ly Iy picked ed up lip by a wagon following a short distance behind Five men are required to properly operate this reaper but when one reflects upon the enor enormous moths maul amount of work in a given time of which It Is la capable and the tho saving lavina which often ofton is attained by harvesting a crop before a II rainfall it will be bo seen that despite its hauling crew of thirty horses It really makes mikes for economy Another strong stranD etron fj point in favor of these huge machines is that they make the thela large la ge farmer armor comparatively independent t of labor It is II almost always possible to t o got get five farm hands and even ordinary y labor la bor unused to the work of the farm will do In a II pinch but It might bo be n a serious problem to find thirty or forty or perhaps a hundred men to hustle a crop into the tho barns In short order And even then there is more work to be bedone bedone bedone done The grain including its enor onor enormous moos mou bulk of straw must be stored in inthe Inthe inthe the barn and when one can secure the services of a n thrasher man it must allbe all 1111 allbe be taken out again fed into the thrash thrashIng Ing log machine and put back in the mows whence It came carne After the grain is thrashed it must be put Into bags and the farmer is 15 then exactly where he would he be three minutes minute after one of tho the largo large reaping re machines entered his field so 50 far at least as a II small portion of 01 his hi crop is concerned What Is more it Is I only tho the straw which he would have to store dare and when once put away that Is not taken out except as It Is re required required re required for bedding etc It Is it said cald that tho the originally designed automobile har liar harvesters harvesters vesters vestera will now bo be modified mollified to con conform conform conform form to the broider broader scope of 01 this ma machine machi machine chine chi ne and there can be no doubt that when this shall bo ho done n II long step In Int Inthe inthe the direction of making possible farm farmon t j lug Ing on a very largo scale will have been bean I taken |