Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — Harvest Record Smashed. [ARTICLE]

Harvest Record Smashed.

Elmer Cox, a young farmer of ■ Whitley county, has broken all record in this part of the State by cutting forty acres of wheat in one day. He used a harvester with an eight foot cutting bar, and began i work at 8:30 a. m. Four horses and four mules alternated in running the machine, and a brother relieved him the dinner and supper hour. After the sun went down he kept on cutting by moonlight, but at 11:30 p. m, the last sheaf had been bound, thus completing the entire field in just fifteen hours. It is estimated that the crop will average twenty-five bushels io the acre, and'the day’s work is the biggest ever done flin a northern Indiana wheat fiald.