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IN THE PICTURE
SET UP FOR THRESHING In this threshing scene, thought to have been taken at Blaze Farm at Haselbury in Somerset in 1952, a Field Marshall Series 2 is providing the power for a Foster drum fitted with a combing attachment. The straw is being bunched and stacked Photo: Museum of English Rural Life
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for thatching and the fact that the stack is sheeted, even during the operation, shows the value that was placed on the straw. The ‘second rate’ straw is being baled with a low-density baler with a rubber
belt bed, suggesting it could be a Claas, while the grain is being bagged and weighed into 18 stone sacks supplied by the West of England Sack Contractors Ltd. There are various tins standing around the Field Marshal Series 2 tractor, no
