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Six men and a combined harvester (combine) with its team of thirty two horses and mules stop in a field near a pile of straw. The straw and chaff are what remain when the grain is cut, separated and bagged. The combine crew consists of five to seven men. Those who ride on the combine are the driver of the team, the header-tender, the combine man, the sack-jig and the sack-sewer. The combine man and the header-tender make sure the machinery works. The sack-jig puts empty sacks on the thresher spouts then takes them off when they are filled with wheat. He gives the sacks a "jig" (shake) to settle the grain and sets them in front of the sack-sewer who sews them closed and flips them into a chute. The sacks of wheat are put on the ground or on a shelf on the side of the combine where other men on the crew load them into wagons. George Tully owned four and a half sections (2880 acres) of land north of Taylor Road per TID/MID map of 1891. Verso: Tully Tract 1908.
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