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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1897
Page
3
The article notes advances in labor saving devices that simplify corn harvesting. It describes improved harvesters that cut and lay corn in straight rows, and methods for bundling 12 to 20 bundles to cure before bringing to the barn for shredding. It also explains hand cutting and tying approaches, stressing the need for secure bundles to withstand weather, and details a corn cutter platform design with runners.
Step by step notes describe constructing a corn cutting platform with an eight inch plank, mortised crosspieces, a sharp long knife, and a curved iron rod to guide corn onto a 30 inch wide platform. Details include bolt placements, rod bends, and support blocks to stabilize the knife and platform.
A fragment describes using a large rod on the outsides of a stake and five inch measurement. It mentions hitching a quiet horse, hanging lines on d, riding at the rear of a platform, and stopping to shock a large pile of corn as it is cut and moved across the field.
Mrs Hattie N Bemis of Arabia Nebraska proposes a scheme to help a dozen widows farm a large northwestern Nebraska tract. The venture would supply machinery cattle horses swine poultry and funds until harvests. Women would manage with no male assistance and would sell crops to men only. marrying men would forfeit shares.
The text describes a quick dumping device to unload stones by lengthening a wagon with a hinged platform on two strong poles. It also warns that damp cellars bring disease and advises pre fall drainage tiling, diagonal cellar drains connecting to outside drains, cemented doors and walls, and cement layers between brick foundations to prevent moisture.
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