Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — BIGGEST LOAD OF WHEAT [ARTICLE]

BIGGEST LOAD OF WHEAT

Kansas Man Brings 12,850 Pounds of Grain to Market on One Wagon. Hutchinson, Kan. —What J. B. Baker, president of the Hutchinson board of trade, declares is the biggest load of wheat ever hauled to market in Kansas on a single wagon was received by the Rock Mill and Elevator company recently. The load was weighed by the Rock company’s scales and tipped the beam at 12,850 pounds, or more than six tons of wheat. There were on the wagon 214 bushels, ten pounds of wheat.