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A combined harvester viewed from the rear. Visible on the right is a large brace between the header reel (which gathers and cuts the grain) and the combine. The wind guard can be seen on the rear of the combine. It keeps wind from upsetting the delicate threshing (separarion) process and stores the chaff separated from the grain. The platform on the bottom of the large box-like unit tilts when pulled with a rope and dumps the chaff (and straw) to the ground to be used as feed for the mules. In this photo to the right of the header reel stands uncut wheat. In the foreground is the "stubble" that is left when the top portion of the wheat is cut. Prior to harvest a field is called a wheatfield but afterwards it is referred to as a stubblefield. George Tully owned four and a half continguous sections (2880 acres) of land north of Taylor Road per TID/MID map of 1891.
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