Show 0 LOSS IN harvesting twenty million bushels of wheat and proportional I ties ies t of other cereals are are annually 1 lost by waste L in harvesting and threshing according to estimates I 1 of specialists in th the wheat districts 9 the west one man eian in kansas with a team and fanning mill fiade in three 4 weeks week s last season cleaning up after threshing machine settings another man with a team cleared 27 to 62 a day by following and cleaning the waste from threshing machines the losses incident to harvesting and threshing can be avoided avo bcd largely I 1 y it i is said in threshing special attention should be given to the admust ment of the concaves concalves con caves and of the separating machinery the specialists cia advise to make sure that none of the grain is lost with the straw and chaff harvesting in michi 3 chinery should be adjusted so that there is as little loss as possible nos sible in cutting care should be taken also to harvest all grain in the corners along the eddes of fields and in lodged nots bots more than usual attention should be given to shocking in order that there mav in av be as little waste as possible from e exposure to the weather if at nil all practicable the grain should then be stacked as soon as it is cured and shocked stacks of bound or headed beaded grain should be built carefully so that they will shed water keen in mind say the specialists that a bushel of wheat will farnish h bread for one person for about 75 days n |