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Excerpt from State and Federal Marketing Activities and Other Economic Work, Vol. 11: July 1, 1931 Advantages and disadvantages of (the combine over the binder - thresher method of harvesting grain are analyzed in a new bulletin, Cost of Combine Harvesting in Minnesota, by Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. The study is based on daily records kept by combine Operators. The principal advantages of the combine over the binder - thresher method of harvest, according to the bulletin, are saving of man labor, reduction of total cost, speeding up the harvesting operations; and on grain farms, the Spreading of the straw on the land. The principal disadvantages are the difficulty of reducing the moisture content of the grain sufficiently for safe storage, and the loss of the straw. Combines used in Minnesota increased from 11 in 1927 to 110 in 1929. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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