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Show LESS. WORK FOR HOUSEWIFE Introduction of Modern Engine Thresher Takes Many Burdens From Shoulders of Women. The work . of the farm housewife has been greatly lessened by the use Df engine threshers. Formerly when farmers went about from one farm to another, helping each other to thresh the grain, the farm-wife was compelled com-pelled to cook for gangs of men, often for days at a time, and with seldom sufficient help, her lot was indeed a hard one. Now, the owner of an engine en-gine thresher rides about the country during the summer days making his threehing contracts. In the fall he organizes or-ganizes his force and starts on his rounds he provides all the men necessary, nec-essary, takes along a tent, employs a cook and relieves the farmer and his family of all work in connection with threshing. A counting machine registers regis-ters the number of bushels turned out, and when his work is ended he receives the farmer's check for his services, hooks up his teams to the traction engines and goes on to the next field. |