Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — Thresh Grain Early in the Season. [ARTICLE]

Thresh Grain Early in the Season.

can be threshed, after all the work in the fields has been finished, the less will be the waste of grain. Whether the grain is JgSTOSMTSW £ quire that it should not remain in that condition very long. If out of doors the jo which if of all on the top and outside of the stacks. If threshed earlyJt can-taAsold any time, but if not thresheatlte best figures may be lost on account of the delay which will be inevitable about getting it to market. But stantly exposed from the depredation of rats. These miserable pirates infest the great majority of barns in jjvhich grain is stored, and the amount of mischief which a horde of them will do in an ordinary but they injure more than they consume. The straw will be damaged as well as Xhe grain, arid a mow of wheat or oats ! .in which a colony of rate haVe been domiciled all winter, will, In the spring, 'be rendered unfit for any ourpose except i’ actively engaged in destroying the results of our labor in the fields. If all farmers wOdld thresh their 'grain early in thc’season, they would cut off one of the principal sources of the enemy’s subsistence rind do a great deal toward driving them from the haunts of civilization. Then, too, in good conditiortslt is best to do the ttreshing early. Besides, straw that is ready for the market early in the season will usually command a,higher price than that which remains long unthreshed. If the strqwis clean and bright, live stock will eat a large part of it, provided it has mot been damaged by mice and rats.—2V. Y. Herald. 1