Combines

For over half a century, workers harvested grain by hand in a very time-consuming process. By 1900, Island farmers had adopted mechanized grain binders to cut, bundle, and tie grain stalks into sheaves, which farm hands loaded onto wagons for further processing elsewhere. In the 1940s, combines replaced grain binders by cutting the wheat and separating it from the chaff and stalks, eliminating the need for additional processing.

Utah · United States