Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1913 — New Invention Removes Kernels From Standing Corn. [ARTICLE]

New Invention Removes Kernels From Standing Corn.

Kansas City, Mo., May 15.—C. C. Baldwin, a Kansas man, has perfected a machine which moves through a field of grain and harvests the kernels direct from the stalks, leaving the straw standing. Four horses pull the outfit, while a small gasoline engine furnishes the power to gather the heads of grain and thrash them out. The advantage is that the expense of cutting, shocking and handling the stalks is obviated and the straw is left on the field for fertilizer. The inventor claims that while it costs fourteen cents a bushel to harvest and thrash wheat his system will do the work for 2 cents. However, it is not always that grain is fit to be thrashed just as it stands in the field, so that the new plan can not take the place of the old entirely.

The Cebohd Dramatic Company, playing here tomorrow evening, offering the comedy drama “Merely a Scrap of Paper,” is composed of a group of twelve students from Purdue University, the parts being filled by six young ladies and an equal number of men. The company also carritf; its own musician and is under the management of one of the company. Though not directly representing the university as a student organization, the players are all well known in student activities, and take an active part in university affairs. The majority of the east are chosen from the two upper classes, and thus much more conscientious work is secured than could be expected from lower classmen. While not a professional company, the Cebohdians are out on their own responsibility, and feci that they are bound to give value received in even a larger degree than would be expected of a professional engagement, on account of the fact that they are all college students, and therefore expected to be more or less intellectually inclined. Advertising flour from ‘selected’ wheat in order to tempt the public is a good deal like the colored man’s hot pies. The colored man shouted, “Hot pies, hot pies!” And a hungry colored brother who bought one found It stone cold. In answer to his complaint, the seller said: “Why, dat’s de name of de pie.” Prof. Amos Hershey, head of the department of political economy in Indiana University at Bloomington, has received the Kghn traveling fellowship, said to be the highest honor given to any professor. It Is an allowance of $3,000 for traveling expenses to apy one professor in the United States. Kahn is a wealthy business man of New York.