Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1904 — FARMING IN WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FARMING IN WASHINGTON.

W. D. Bringle of Jordan tp. returned last Friday from his trip to Anatone, Wash. Mr. Bringle was gone from here twenty-four days and was over considerable territory rn that section of the country. Everything there is done pn a big scale. His uncle, Mr. Benjamin Flock, whom he visited most of the time, was 34 days cutting his wheat, and they averaged 31| acres per day. He used a header and thresher combined, a machine that cuts the wheat and threshes at the same time. Thirty’ horses furnished the motive power for this particular machine, and five men were required to manipulate it. Then, of course, there were the haulers to take the filled sacks from the field (all grain is sacked) the water hauers, grub wagon, etc. Mr. Bringle saw’ one of these machines working that cut a swath 35 feet wide and was driven by a fifi horse power engine. The farmer there furnishes no hands in in cutting and threshing, the thresher furnhising everything. Mr. Bringle thinks it is a great country, but he dosen’t like the numerous canyons. Fruit of all kinds is grown there in abundance and is the finest in the world. Wheat this year yielded from 30 to 50 bushels per acre. Barley is also a great producing crop in that country. Grain, of course, brings a much smaller price there than here, owing to the long distance from market.