Summary: Threshing
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In the early part of the 20th century a new noise was heard throughout the winter days as the steam thresher set to work on Ulster’s farms. Corn was threshed when winter feeding was needed for animals. The introduction of the steam engine made this a commercial venture. The owner of the steam engine acted as a contractor for all the farmers in his neighbourhood. The mobile thresher was pulled by the steam engine and then the threshing mill was driven by belts attached to the engine. Two men usually forked the corn from the stack to the top of the thresher where others fed the sheaves into the drum. The corn came out at the rear of the thresher where it was bagged, and the straw was thrown out the front of the mill before being built into pikes.
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