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Barley Threshing

By Charles Fletcher

1011 Leicester Road, Calledonia, New York 14423

As I've read past issue of your magazine about old threshers telling about the wonderful old days of big tractors and threshing rigs, I don't believe I have read much, if anything about threshing bearded barley. They probably don't want remember this.

I can remember very well when I was a boy of grade school age, watching them thresh beans at the neighbors. It was in the winter and the thresher pulled in with a Hart Parr and threshing machine (I forget the make) and he had a tow bar made so he could pull his model A pickup behind the machine.

They set the thresher between the mows in the barn with the stacker out the back doors as the farmer used the pods to feed his sheep and the belt run out the doors on the opposite side of the barn.

Now because it was cold weather, they had the doors shut as close to th...

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