Analysis and Evaluation of the Influence of Different Drum Forms of Peanut Harvester on Pod-Pickup Quality

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

It is a very interesting manuscript and the field work carried out gives value to the results obtained. Undoubtedly, the contribution to peanut cultivation is significant. 

Please consider the following:

• In the discussion section add the limitations of the work and the scopes of the work.
• In the results section, explain in detail the graphs presented as results.

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

This article is about evaluation of three different types of peanut harvester drum forms. The mechanisms of these drum forms were provided and the analysis was done based on 2 varieties "Shanhua 9" and "Huayu22". The review showed quite little difference for crushed rate.

This article provided a quite thorough description of the mechanisms, and the analysis is based on standard approach. This evaluation provided a further in-depth understanding of these mechanisms, and will lead to a better iteration of harvesters. 

The minor things to fix are consistency, such as units (spaced or non-spaced? - 3.15 m or 3.15m?), Fig. or Figure in text. The Figure numbers are definitely not aligned with the text.

• line 233 - Figure 2->Figure 4
• line 260 - Figure 10->Figure 6 or Fig. 6
• line 334 - Figure 2->Figure 7
• line 365 - Figure 3->Figure 8 or Fig. 8
• line 412 - Figure 3->Figure 8
• line 417 - Figure 4->Figure 9 or Fig. 9
• line 433 - Figure 4->Figure 9
• line 436 - Figure 10->Figure 10 or Fig. 10
• line 466 - Figure 5->Figure 10
• line 471 - Figure 6->Figure 11 or Fig. 11
• line 472 - Figure 7->Figure 12 or Fig. 12
• line 494 - Figure 6->Figure 11
• line 500 - Figure 7->Figure 12 

There are a couple of spelling mistakes as well (found one at line 192 - podpods which I believe is pods and another one is Huayu22were to be Huayu22 were on line 489). Figure 2 (meant to be 7) is not introduced in the text. Formulas were also not numbered.  I also suggest that "From Figure 4" on line 417 and "From fig. 5" on line 437 to be removed. Also, non-capital T instead for Transportation on line 441. Highly suggest to read through and carefully comb out the mistakes.

Author Response

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