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Horse drawn threshing machine

Two horses in a field pulling thresher while man shovels hay into feeder and a cloud of seeds blowing out of the back.

Photo from the collection of the Beiseker Station Museum

Harvesting a crop with a horse drawn threshing machine amidst a great cloud of dust. The grain is fed into the hopper which separates the kernels from the straw. The kernels pass over a screen, the chaff is blown away, and the kernels are dumped into a sack. The straw and chaff are blown into a straw stack to be collected and baled.