Show USE MACHINES IN CUTTING CORN t W aw a v X IRA i 91 MAII A ak tw w t pl mam 0 i 7 40 t A IA the proper time for cutting corn in I 1 n order to preserve its full feeding value Is so short that the savl savi ng of time from the use of machinery for harvesting often means more in the farmers pocket than merely the wages saved cutting corn with machinery dues does not reduce materially the cost of cutting it does however enable the farmer 0 to o cut a given acreage much more quickly and in that way often proves profitable the proper time for cutting corn in order to preserve its full feeding value nine Is ia so short and other work is usually so pressing that the saying saving of time often means a great deal more in the far tanners pocket than could any actual saving in wages mid and other cutting costs tills this Is the view taken of corn ma dillery lil nery by the united states department of agriculture as expressed IR in farmers bulletin the be use ue of machinery ia in cutting corn the saving Is greater ter in cutting corn for sling silage ge than for fodder the bulletin continues the ivio types of corn harvesting loa machinery chinery the corn binder and the platform harvester are discussed in detail under normal conditions it Is ita stated ted the binder drawn by three horses will cut about seven acres in a ten hour four day one man mail will b required to operate the machine and two to shock the corn these three men working with corn knives would probably b be able to cut about four aeres acres in a ten hour day the binder therefore does nearly twice us as much work its as the three men could do without it objection to binder T there are however limitations and objections to tile use of the hinder binder if the corn Is badly blown down tho the binder may not be able to handle it and may have to stand idle through a beason the binder necessarily knocks off on some of the ears and it may ile be necessary to send a man over the field to pick up the ears by hand men at first find it harder to handle the bundles from a binder than to handle looe sulks some binders drop the be bundles lo 10 nearly behind the machine that the horses have hae to walk over them on the next round and thus considerable sid erable damage Is done to the corn however the specialists say these objections can be minimized minimised sed even here they cannot bo be completely obviated in order to malie make the use ot of the lie binder borth alle while hl le the reduction in labor and the saying saving due to getting the work done at the proper time must more thin than pay for the hie use of the machine the twine and the labor of the horses the saying saving Is greater N lien cutting fur for silage for leeral reason tile the binder saves the labor of at least two men in cutting often the saing in time fline due to having the stalks 11 ID bundles instead of loose will enath the operator further to reduce the lie size of the crew if only a n sin small ill amount of silage Is to be put up fl 6 binder would not be a paying operation unless there were a large bunn quantity of nf other corn to cut the coop co op curative use of both binder anil and cutter is discussed and Is recommended where the hie only corn cut Is that for silage operative cooperative co ownership find and use of the binder is sald said to be f frequently re advantageous for small farmers them the use of the corn elevator in connection with the binder Is discussed and both the advantages und and disadvantages list dvo stages pointed out platform harvester cheaper the platform fariester ha liar ester while a cruder machine thin than the binder is much less expensive to purchase requires only one horse instead of three or 01 four and two men instead of 0 three its days work is about four or the 10 acres generally tile the equivalent of the lie labor of one man Is saved every lay day the pInt platform forn ban hal ester I 1 iq used the work Is harder with the platform harvester than with tile the binler bidler rut but tile the platform harvester cali lie be used more profitably on small firms than enn can a binder an and it can stand idle a greater part of the alie time or wear out sooner booner than a binder and still ile be a profitable investment ait cutting corn for silage the platform harvester will not save as much labor as a binder copies of tile the bulletin may bp be had biad free on application to the division of 1 publications united states department of agriculture washington |