PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jim H Barner
AU  - Keith Windell
TI  - Seed Cleaning: Improvements to the brush cleaning comb
AID  - 10.3368/npj.11.1.38
DP  - 2010 Mar 20
TA  - Native Plants Journal
PG  - 38--44
VI  - 11
IP  - 1
4099  - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/11/1/38.short
4100  - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/11/1/38.full
SO  - NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL2010 Mar 20; 11
AB  - An improved brush cleaning comb has been developed by the Missoula Technology and Development Center using an approach suggested by the USDA Forest Service’s Bend Seed Extractory. Brushing machines remove the awns (stiff, slender, sometimes barbed stalks) when grass seeds are cleaned. Rotating brushes cut off the awns by scraping the seeds against the brushing machine’s wire mesh mantle screen. The improved brush cleaning combs keep the awns from clogging the rotating brushes.