The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-18

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two weeks. He uses twelve broad.
cast seeders, which are followed by
twenty-four drag teams. All move
together in battalion order, under one
supervision. His horses are in good
trim, the men make long days, and
all arc cared for generously. He puts
i'm tushel and hall of Scotch-fife
wheat to the acre. His last springs
seeding took an even three thousand
bushels, and was finished in exactly
twelve days.
HARVESTING. tfa-f
Harvesting is the great event Of the
year, and calls out the true Dalrym-
pie talent and directing energy. The
idea is to secure the largest measur
of results in the shortest space of time
to get the harvesting finished, the
wheat to market, and the money in
pocket, while others are dawdling
along under barn covers, or, watching
their field stacks in terror of fires or
! equinoctials. Two weeks before hsr-
vest. he advertises i'm st. Paul for one
hundred and twenty-five men at
50 50a day. He has no trouble in
recruiting good men who have
worked in the pineries or on river
RATS. They like the excitement of
great numbers. Harvest opens early
in July. Fifteen four-horse McCor-
mick reapers move into the field to-
gether, following each other side by
side, like the fight of wild geese
through the air. Ninety binders
swarm on their tracks, working in
stations of sixths over sections of
mile. They are followed by shockers,
setting up bundles, by twOs and twos,
in numbers of twelve. A mounted
overseer directs the whole. 1t is an
inspiring sight-fifteen broad armed
reapers plunging into sea of waving
grain. Men and horses do their best.
If one falls behind another takes his
place. Everything is provided for,
and no time lost. Horses are washed
and well groomed at night. Men 60
into the field at sunrise, and are called
to dinner at IL; lunch is taken out at
4, and supper ready at dark. All feed
at one table in the long ircar'wiug.
Aunt Minnie and Amanda have am
pie help, and arc radiant with added
kitchen glories, and two dollars day.
Hundreds of visitors come from afar
10 witness the great harvest spectacle.
In two weeks the battle with the reap
ers is over, and sixty thousand wheat
stacks checker the wide harvest
fields.H lKli 40 LILO
There is no stacking. When the
reapers have finished, the whole force
of men and teams are turned over to
the threshing machines and market
wagons. Four ten-horso-pOwer and
two steam-power machines are moved
into line and ready for work. The
wheat is drawn straightway from the
shocks, put through the machines,
emptied into bags, loaded on wagons,
drawn to the river, lifted in the ele-
vator, run through the cleaner, spout
ed in barges, shipped to Milwaukee,
and sold on arrival. All this goes on
each day, rs one act, under one system
of direction. Every night the ma
chimes are moved to new stations, and
the fresh straw burned. The men get
two dollars a day during the thresh-
ing period, and work as many hours
as nature and daylight will properly
allow. In twelve to fifteen days the
work of the threshers and market
wagons is ended. -r'- 80. .i..a'. ..-
Fall blowing is a simple affair with
Mr.. Dalrymple, and requires no extra
supervision. 1t follows close upon
the threshing, one manager looking
after all. Twenty two-horse plows
are put into the stubble field together.
They move i'm order and i'm sections
three miles about, turning burrows
twelve inches wide, and each year a
little deeper than before, to reach
| fresh soil. They cut sixty acres a
day, and require two months of aver
age fall weather to complete tue
whole. Mr.. Dalrymplc pays $50 a
month Cor this season of W ork, not ex-
ceeding ten hours day. With the
completion of the blowing, the work
season closes, and Billy, and Tom,
and Nancy and Jerry are stripped of
their Shoes, and turned loose In the
forty-acreH stable lot to fly their heels
and switch their tails i'm unrestrained
enjoyment, till April breezes have re-
turned again upon the hills. No
ghosts of horses have ventured OH the
farm for more than two years.
The average cost of raising wheat
Oh good Minnesota wheat land, at
last summer prices of labor on the.
Mississippi. is figured by Mr.. Dalrym-
pie at fifty cents a bushel, or ten dol
| Lon Tka Of
per acre include stubble blowing, 81;
seed wheat, 81 so; sowing, 81; cut
ting, 81; binding, ETC., 50 % /; thresh.
ing, etc., 50 so. With cheapened
transportation, as the West must have,
Mr.. Dalrymple thinks the average
price of wheat OH the Mississippi can
not fall below a dollar a bushel.
DIR. Dalrymple gives the following
results of his three sk,aRte'i recrea-
tons: - '-'' D. ''f''
His crop from seventeen hundred
acres in 1867 harvested twenty one
bushels to the acre. and Melted him
ten thousand dollars, over and above
the entire cost of his land, blowing,
fencing, seeding, and all the labor
employed. a go .-Iai -.e.-,r5 I'd 100
His crop from seventeen hundred
acres in 1868 harvested twenty three
bushels to the acre, and Melted him
$4,000 at home, above the cost of
production. = Pc 1l".,.f ''.. 90. o..
His crop from twenty hundred acres
in 1869 harvested twenty-five and
half bushels to the acre, and netted
him $4,000 above the cost of raising.
Adding the present cash value of
his farm (SS0000), and the net profits
of his three years wheat-growing ex-
coed Sl50,OO0. Not a bad exhibit for
young man who, twelve wears ago,
was earning his beetle and wedges out
among the gopher wilds.
Mr.. Dalrymplc is a progressionist,
and is maturing plans for wider eir-'
teipr'ises. He will soon give the bor-
der Minnesotians lesson in stock
raising. $500.
Experiments with tuberculosis.