Posted by Ken Macfarlane on June 04, 2008 at 13:43:25 from (156.34.142.102):
A lot of us here are only familiar with local practices and its hard to get a good idea of what everyone calls common. Due to the grain subsidy in Canada, grain growing in eastern Canada basically stopped the generation before me. Now that is gone, we are relearning how to grow grain in a wet climate. I've been interested in it for a while so I'll explain what was done before.
1) Seedbed prep - same as for grasses, moldboard, spring tooth harrow etc. The disc harrow isn't common in rocky areas here for some reason.
2) Everyone seems to have an old Massey planter on steel with a wooden seed box. They haven't been used since the 50's but thats what most old farms have kicking around. Nobody around now knows anything about them now though. I've never seen one used. I assume seed was drop in the top and once the ground drive kicked in it would meter seeds into the ground?
3) What I see in the woods and rock piles I don't know the name of but it was horse or tractor drawn and was transported sideways. Once in the field the drawbar was turned, a wheel cranked down and a sickle bar cut about a 4 ft swath of grain. The stems fell onto what looked like a walker table that grouped the grain into bundles and it seemed like an auto tie mechanism tied them. Beyond that I'm not sure. Nobody around to ask if the shocks(I think thats the word) were left to stand and dry or if they went into a wagon.
4) The newer artifacts in the rockpiles are towed combines with engines mounted on them. Not many of them around so I assume only the richest farmers had them.
Now I've travelled around out west a lot and see how things are done now out there, and locally things aren't a whole lot different other than smaller scale and the yields we get are incredible in comparison despite all our fungus troubles.
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