Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1918 — Labor-Saving Harvester. [ARTICLE]

Labor-Saving Harvester.

One thousand improved wheat-har-vesting machines, known as combines, will be used in Washington state and other states of the Northwest this year, according to farm-help specialists of the United States department of agriculture, and will effect a great saving in labor. These machines, which cut the heads from wheat and thrash the grain as they travel across the field, can be operated by two persons, and each machine will harvest from 350 to 400 acres of wheat during a season. They are marked labor savers over the old type combine, which required about 20 men.