—Lancaster Faming, Saturday, December 2,1971
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History of the combine told
NEW HOLLAND - Modem
rotary combines are the
result of 100 years
development experience.
The name of the machine
took some development, too.
Actually, a couple of'
thousand years of grain
- growing history are all
neatly tied up in our word
“combine”. But mainly it
happened in the last 50
yeats.
As recently as 1923, big-
scale farmers- in the Mon
tana wheat country were
calling the machines by their
correct and proper name:
“Combined Harvester and
Thresher.” Since then, the
term's been shortened into
the single word we now use
to talk about grain har
vesting machines, says
George Eastman, product
manager for combines at
Sperry New Holland.
From the time of Abraham
to George Washington,
farmers cut and threshed
grain by hand. Cutting was
usually by sickle or reaping
hook.
Threshing was by flail or
animal treading. Either
way, sheaves of grain were
spread out on a threshing
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floor for the operation.
Raking off the straw came
next. This was followed by
separating grain and chaff. J
We still do it in exactly
those same three steps.
Even in a TR7O. First we
thresh, then we remove
straw, then we separate
grain and chaff in a final
separate operation. But
we’ve made progress.
Most of the progress came
since the death of George
Washington. First, the grain
cradle replaced the sickle.
Threshing was a wintertime
task. In the summer you had
your hands full enough to
Just get the wheat cradled,
bundled and hauled into the
bam. There was no time to
swing the flail. And all tbe
grain was flail-threshed.
Before the Civil War,
threshing was already going
mechanical over a lot of the
country.
The war sparked a boost in
grain price. This, in turn,
helped make mechanization
more feasible. Knowing
about the machines didn’t
help when grain prices were
too low to pay for reapers
and threshers.
But the practical combine
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was stall years away in the
next century.
A combined harvester
thresher was already in
vented by Hiram Moore.
After tinkering with it for a
while he more or less got it
working in 1853. A herd of
horses pulled and powered
it. It was ahead of its time.
When the time for the
combine came, it was too
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large and too expensive for
most farms but the big
“bonanza” farms of the
West were just ffght for it,
according to the biggest
Bonanza farmer of them a|l,
Thomas Campbell.
During the World War I
food crisis, Campbell far
med a stretch of land of
hundreds of thousands of
acres that stretched a good
many miles wide from north
to south. His observation on
the 24-foot cut machines
was: “Only seven men are
required to operate Oils
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recently received honors at the Lebanon
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The cow of the year was also owned by the
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Boyertown, PA 19512
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