David from Kansas
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Wanted to share this. It is an ad of a wheat header for sale in Kansas. Think the header came into use just before the pull-type combine. It eliminated having to bind the wheat into bundles, shocking the bundles for ripening and hauling them to the threshing machine. The header cut the heads directly from the wheat and elevated them into a wagon (header barge), taken to the threshing machine where they were threshed. Of course, this is strictly my opinion based on what I heard my dad talk about.
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