Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — Twenty-Five Thousand Acres of Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Twenty-Five Thousand Acres of Wheat.

Josiah C. Thompson, ( of Fair Oaks, sends The Republican a page of a recent Sunday number of the San Francesco Examiner, containing a detailed description of the largest wheatfield in the world. It is in Fresno and Madera counties. California, and is the property of Clovis Cole, a cousin of Mr. Thompson’s on his mother’s side. The ranch contains 25000 acres and it is all devoted to wheat raising. This year the crop is enormous. Owing to the absence of rain in fall season, in California, the wheat can stand in the field weeks or months after it ripe, and thus there is time to harvest their great fields. In this case five great combination harvesters have been at work since early in July. They cut, thrash sack and the grain as they go, and they will not get it all, harvested until about the end of this month. Clovis Cole, manager as well as owner of the great ranch is a son of Stephen Cole, who went to California from near Vevay, in this state, in 1872.