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favorite spot on the corral fence for a ringsidi of belt wound around a cjr e a t wheel. The belt wds unwound and connected to another big wheel on the thresher. The feeder chute, with its pulleys that went round and round to carry the bundles of grain through which the grain kernels came down was set in place. On the ground, my brothers, with the heavy clamps on the magic machine, attached empty gunny shouted, "Lets go!" Our hearts raced* with excitement. Two men on the grain stack: began to pitch the bundles onto the feeder chute and in a few minutes the straw started shooting out the other end.. My ing the grain from one sack to another by pulling the proper bins, and returned for more ¦ necks to keep out as much of the flying chaff as possible. Often they'd pull their handkerchiefs up over noses and mouths to keep the dust from never waning, until the last bundle of grain from the last stacR had gone through the machine. Threshing day was exciting for us children, .10 matter what; but for father it was either satisfying 58 |
