Separating wheat from chaff at the Rollag threshing festival
Every Labor Day weekend, thousands of people come to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion in the tiny northwestern Minnesota town of Rollag. Dozens of sometimes-antique steam engines are shown that were once used to thresh -- to separate grain from the stalk.
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