The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-04
DR.. Glenn's Big California Wheat
Ranch.

l WILL give you a detailed account of
a little wheat ranch in Colusa Coun-
ty, owned and operated by a former
citizen of Missouri. DIR. Hugh j. Glenn.
and, presuming that a short biographi-
cal sketch of this gentleman will be in
place, l will give it just here, in brief.
He was born in Augusta County, Va,
in 1924. His father came to Missouri
in 1881. and settled in Paris, where
Hugh went to school, receiving n
good common education. At the age
of seventeen. in lS43, he passed n sea-
son behind the counter of a dry-goods
store, and afterward studied medicine,
finishing his medical reading in 1916.
At the breaking out of the Mexican
wal Mr.. Glenn served under Sterling
Price, returning in 1917 to resume his
medical studies under Prof. Mcdowell
at the State Medical University of Mis-
souri,. In lSi9 he received his diploma.
DIR. Glenn married in 1S49 Miss Nancy
IL. 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. On
May 3. 1919, 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 ) ZOO in his possess
sion, feeling more rich, he says, than
he ever has since, or eve expects to
feel, even though 81 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 Decem-
Der, 1867, and commenced farming in
the wonderfully productive Sacramento
Valley. He has nOw a farm of 65,000
acres, As, 900 of which are in wheat,
and has LIS miles of fence. The acre.
age Weld is 25 bushels in favorable sea-
sons-and this is considered a favOra-
BILE m Of this years crop DR.. Glenn
says. although he has on hand $4,000
sacks, each holding 40 pounds, he thinks
they will not hold his wheat. He has
HE W lloClliuC LII DllChSLlitl LOpS,
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
so men in seeding and $50 men in bar-
vest, 200 head of horses and mules, 30
grain headers and other wagons, $50
sets of harness, II twelve-foot headers,
6 sulky hay rakes, IL eight-mule Guilt
vators. 4 Gem seed sewers, 8 Buckeye
drills, 8 mowers, l forty-eight-inch sep
arator, SO fest long and 1S4 feet high,
with a capacity of ten bushels per min
ute; l forty-inch separator, 36 feet long;
2 forty-feet elevators for self-feeder. l
steam barley or feed mill. 2 twenty
horsepower engines. The f~orty-eight-
inch separator threshed on the Sth of
August, 1879, 5,779 bushels of wheat in
one day. The working force to run the
separator is 60 men, s headers, %
header wagons, 100 horses and mules.
The average run of the machine is
1,S00 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 .-Catyornia Letter to ST. Louis
| Republican.