Show SAVE YOUR SEED CROP by C F wilkinson you seed crop Is grown now so that the next thing to think of Is to get it harvested and threshed in such a fashion as to get the most money tor for your efforts and expense in growing it cut it clean it if your seed Is short and sprawl ing you will find that you can cut closer by making the shoes on your cutter bar carry the bar so that the bar itself clears the ground without I 1 dragging while the points of the gaulds run close to the grouns aroun as they can go without catching in the crowns crown you will almost certainly have to lengthen the tilting rod on your horse drawn mowers mo to get the points of the guards down ste st e lour cat cut seed your shor seed may have to be guarded off the cutter bar to keep it from falling back thru the knife where it will get chopped up and lost using a pan instead of a twist er on such seed will often save sev eral times the cost of the extra la bor when your seed Is cut get it into neat smooth piles while it Is still tough the ripest burrs are likely to be on stems that are brittle as soon as they are dry piles should be just large enough that one lift with the pitchfork will take them up clean without tearing them apart and with out shattering off the seed don t beave leave seed exposed to the weather aleather when you seed Is dry enough to haul it is also dry enough that rain Is likely to open the burrs and allow some of the seed to get lost or be weather stained stack your crop unless you can thresh it immediately when it is dry enough it will not take much more handling and you can thresh taster faster and more steadily out of the stack than out of the field if you do not thresh within a week after stacking better let the stack go through the sweat this will take thirty to forty days after that it will thresh faster and easier than be fore it if you have weed patches handle them entirely separately from your clean seed modern seed cleaning machinery will clean out most any weed seed but you will get more tor for your seed it if there is less cleaning expense attached to it it if your seed piles get rained on let them get dry on top and then lift them straight up and set them over i on a dry spot don t turn them over oter when you thresh see that the feeder and cylinder are always full when the machine Is of the broken seed is caused by tall tail angs hitting an otherwise empty cylinder A considerable part ot of the seed goes over in tie vie burr and gets away because the cly inder Is not full e nough bough to rub it out of the burr save all ot of your crop and have it in such shape that the seed man who buys it can figure right up to the line |