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Considerable amell grein is threshedé from the
stook, but stacking is regardefi as the betier practice,
as it obviates the danger of the grain sprouting in the
stooks in case cf rain, which is generaliy prevalent in
the harvest season. Sfackeé grain alse goes through a
"sweat" which hardens it and insures it against future
injury from overheating or moulding in grain bins or
elevators. In order to counteract the tendency toward
heating when the grain is stored in bulk from stook
threshing, some farmers utilize movable gaivanized metal
bins designed properly to protect the grain against rain,
to ventilate it, ané to cure it for marketing at some
later time when it can be conveniently hauled. Some
straw stacks are disposed of by burning, but where seeded
the strew is kept as food and bedding for live stock.

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LOOKING SOUTH FROM THE HE. COR. SEC. iL &P.78 RGE16

The above view shows a field of grain in stookse Buch
of the grain is thresheé from the stooke