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  2. Threshing - Wikipedia

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    A grain flail. Through much of the important history of agriculture, threshing was time-consuming and usually laborious, with a bushel of wheat taking about an hour. [2] In the late 18th century, before threshing was mechanized, [3] about one-quarter of agricultural labor was devoted to it.

  3. Threshing machine - Wikipedia

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    A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out.

  4. Case Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for most of a century. For another 66 years it was the J. I. Case Company , and was often called simply Case .

  5. Threshing board - Wikipedia

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    The threshing board is a historical form of threshing that can still be seen in some regions that practice marginal agriculture. It is also somewhat preserved as an occasional folkloric and ceremonial practice, to commemorate traditional local customs.

  6. Threshing floor - Wikipedia

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    A threshing floor is of two main types: 1) a specially flattened outdoor surface, usually circular and paved, [2] or 2) inside a building with a smooth floor of earth, stone or wood where a farmer would thresh the grain harvest and then winnow it. Animal and steam powered threshing machines from the nineteenth century onward made threshing ...

  7. Minneapolis-Moline - Wikipedia

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    It was the product of a merger of three companies in 1929: Minneapolis Steel & Machinery (MSM) which was noted for its Twin City tractors, Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company (MTM) which also produced Minneapolis tractors, and the Moline Implement Company formerly known as the Moline Plow Company.

  8. Threshing stone - Wikipedia

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    Threshing stone near Goessel, Kansas at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church. (2010) A threshing stone is a roller-like tool used for the threshing of wheat.Similar to the use of threshing boards, the stone was pulled by horses over a circular pile of harvested wheat on a hardened dirt surface (threshing floor), and the rolling stone knocked the grain from the head of wheat.

  9. Jerome Case - Wikipedia

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    Jerome Increase Case (December 11, 1819 – December 22, 1891) was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines.He founded the J. I. Case Company which has gone through many mergers and name changes to today's Case Corporation. [1]