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Uploaded by on Aug 22, 2008

Wheat threshing at the Montgomery County, MO, Old Threshers Show 2008.

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  • In the book "Farmer Boy" (I think) they went to a fair and saw a threshing machine and were amazed but commented that the straw that came out of the machine was unfit to feed the animals, and therefore wasteful.

  • @SaviourSole In reality you wouldn't feed straw to livestock anyway since it has pretty much no nutritional value. Most of the time the straw was (and still is!) baled and used as cheap bedding. Baled hay is what you feed livestock. Kind of amusing to see books in print that get things incorrect or out of perspective, but also a bit sad to see so much of what was once common knowledge being lost.

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  • Machines like this were invented when people became lazy and saw dollar signs. I wouldn't trade in the experience of a family out in a field cutting and winnowing the wheat. Machines have done nothing but kill farm family life and replace it with heavier bank accounts.

  • @JackOfTrades99

    The Little House books are definitely fictionalized versions of the Ingalls and Wilder families, but I bet they DID feed wheat stalks to their animals. Those hardy souls made full use of everything they had!

    Even humans will eat leather when they're hungry (see: "Donnor Party")!

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