New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-24
DR.. Glenn's Big California Wheat
Ranch.

WILL g i've you detailed account of
little wheat ranch'' in Colusa Coun-
ty, owned and operated by former
citizen of Missouri, DR.. Hugh j. Glenn,
and, presuming that short biographi-
cal sketch of this gentleman will be in
place, will give it just here, in brief.
tie was born in Augusta County, Va,
in 1924. His father came to Missouri
in 1881, and settled in Paris, where
''Hugh'' won't to school, receiving a
good common education. At the age
of seventeen, in 1843, he passed sew
son behind the counter of dry-goods
store, and afterward studied medicine,
finishing his medical reading in 1916.
At the breaking out of the Mexican
war Mr.. Glenn served under Sterling
Price, returning in 1917 to resume his
medical studies under Prof. McDov we'll
at the State Medical University of Mis-
souri,. In 1919 he received his diploma.
DIR. Glenn married in 1849 Miss Nancy
II. Alternately. When he married he
had but $40, with which he purchased
a one-quarter interest in an OK team.
consisting of four yoke and wagon. Or
May 3. 1849, he left Missouri for Cali
fornia with the ox-team and wagon az
| rived in Sacramento in August follow
| ing, camped there, and then went to
the mines, where he was successful
He sold his ''claim," returned to Sacra-
mento, engaged in the livery-stable
business, sold out and returned to Mis-
souri, in 1852 with So, 900 in his posses.
sion, feeling more rich, he says, than
he ever has since, or ever expects to
feel, even though Il may be worth mill
IONS" In 1852 and until the fuss down
South commenced he was engaged in
buying and selling horses and mules for
the South.
Mr.. Glenn made his first purchase of
the Jacinto grant, California, in Deem
the wonderfully productive Sacramento
Valley. He has now farm of 65, 900
| acres, IS, 900 of which are in wheat.
and has IT'S miles Of fence. The acre.
age yield is 25 bushels in favorable sea-
sons-and this is considered favora-
BILE one. OF this years crop DR.. Glenn
says, although he has on hand 100000
sacks, each holding 140 pounds, he thinks
they will not hold his wheat. He has
his own machine and blacksmith shops,
boring, turning and planning machines,
buzz-saws, etc. He manufactures his
own wagons, separators, headers, har-
rows, and nearly all the machinery and
implements used. He has employed
50 men in seeding and $50 men in Ear
vest, 200 head OF horses and mules, So
grain headers and other wagons, $50
sets of harness, IL twelve-foot headers,
6 suiky hay rakes, ~ eight-mule cult
vators, 4 Gem seed sewers, 8 Buckeye
drills, 8 mowers, forty-eight-inch sep
arator, SO feet long and 1S1 feet high,
with capacity of ten bushels per min.
ute; forty-inch separator, sc feet long.
2 forty-feet elevators for self-feeder, ]
steam barley or feed mill, 2 twenty
horsepower engines. The forty-eight-
inch separator threshed on the 9Th of
August, 1879, 5,779 bushels Il wheat in
one day. The working force to run the
separator is so men, 8 headers, %
header wagons, 100 horses and mules.
The average run of the machine il
1900 sacks, containing q bushels each,
per day. The harvesting force cut and
thrash simultaneously, and in fifteen
minutes from the time the header be-
gins in the grain the wheat is in the
sacks. - California Letter to st. Louis
Republican.