It usually takes a day and a quarter to thresh the wheat which it took a day to cut.
It costs about $1.50 an acre to thresh the grain and put it into the elevator.
The farmer estimates that a threshing-machine can thresh all the wheat ordinarily grown upon 2500 acres, so that a 5000-acre farmer would have at least two machines running at the same time.
Another character, Tinny Day, came with his huge steam-engines to thresh the grain and stack the straw.
His interests in theoretical plant virus epidemiology were re-awakened by links with Mike Thresh and have subsequently developed into major research initiatives.
