Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1879 — Wire in Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Wire in Wheat.

There has been wide opposition by millers at the West to the introduction of the improved mowing-machines which bind as well as cut the grain, for the reason that bits of the wire thread used for the binding unavoidably got mixed in the wheat and seriously injured the grinding machinery. This objection has now, however, been entirely overcome by an ingenious arrangement of magnets which take up all the wire and other bits of metal as the wheat passes through the trough to the mill. Five millions of dollars are required to finish the New York State Capital.