Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-17
DR.. Glenn's Great California Wheat
Ranch.

The ranch of II. j. Glenn, in Colusa
County, is one of the largest and most
noted in the State, and perhaps pre-
sents the best illustration of extraordi-
nary farming along the Sacramento. On
being asked recently why he raised
wheat alone, his reply was as follows:
People ask why Iraise all wheat. The
answer is siJnple: 1t is the only crop
that will bear transportation; it is the
only crop not perishable. must not
raise on my land what ruins me, but
what is profitable Dr. Glenn ranch
comprises about 10000 acres of land,
and the number of acres in wheat each
year ranges between 40, 900 and sc, OOU.
Reckoning an average of from twenty
to twenty-five bushels to the acre, the
aggregate crop each year amounts to
something more than 1000, 900 bush
els. This enormous amount of grain
requires vast appliances for planting
and bringing it to market; and the cap
ital inv ested in machinery alone sums
up a considerable fortune. During the
last contest for the Governorship of
California, DR.. Glenn was the candidate
of the Democratic and New Constitu-
ton parties; and, to representative of
one of the city papers who visited the
ranch during the campaign, some note
worthy statistics were furnished. Ac-
cording to the report, during the har-
vest-time there are employed on the
entire ranch some 500 men. DR.. Glenn
is General-in-C Chief of his force, and the
ranch is divided, for convenience of
operations, into nine smaller ranches -
each with dwelling house. barns, black
smith-shop, and other necessary build
ings. In charge of these are seven
foremen, under whom are sixteen
blacksmiths, fourteen carpenters, six
engineers, six machinists, five commits
saries and numerous cooks and serv-
ants. The common workmen are di-
| vided into gangs, and detailed where
they are needed. There are 100 gang
plows; sixty herders, to which belong
| $50 wagons; six cleaners, 100 harrows,
eighteen seeders, six thrashers, six en-
gines. Besides, there are many smaller
instruments and vehicles, which cannot
be classified. Cooperating with their
human brethren in the great labor are
1000 work-horses and mules, with
kinship of 1000 brood-mares and
younger stock which has not vet
achieved the dignity of labor. There
are thirty-two dwelling houses, twenty
seven barns, fourteen blacksmith shops,
and other structures sufficient to swell
the aggregate to 100 The machinery
could not be replaced for 1926. 900; the
work-horses and mules are worth $110,-
! 600, the brood-mares and young stock
| $?5, 600, and the buildings on the place
! 500, 600. The ranch is about twenty
miles above the Town of Colusa; its
| length is about sixteen miles on q me-
| ridian line, and the average width is
about one third of the length. The soil
| is black, gravelv loan; and the sur
| face is fiat or undulating like the prai-
ries of Southern Illinois. During the
months between and including July and
December of the year just past Dr.
| Glenn loaded on his own account and
dispatched to Great Britain no less
than twelve vessels, carrying an aggre-
| gate of SOC, 474 centals OF wheat, val
ued at S759,916. This season there are
no less than 175 miles of fence on the
ranch; and $50, 900 sacks, each holding
| 14O pounds. have not been sufficient to
hold the crop. 1t may be stated, in
addition, that the average daily run of
the great 4S-inch separator or thresher
is 300 sacks of two and one-third
bushels each; and, on the Sth of Au-
! gust, it turned out the enormous
amount of 5,779 bushels. 1t is claimed
that this same separator can produce
5000 sacks, or 1000 bushels. in a single
] day. The old mode of cultivation could
never have shown such astonishing re-
turns; and, with wheat-culture on such
q gigantic scale, it is not to be wondered
that the production of California should
in one season be placed at 100000
| bushels, and the total be second to that
of no other State except Illinois,.
| r. Whitetiil, TN Chicago Tribune.
Justice Clifford, of the United States
Supreme Court, is under the constant
care of his devoted wife, who has grown
| very old in her looks since her husband
attack. A few days ago the invalid
escaped from her care and wandered
out through the halls of the hotel, look
ing pitifully into faces that he did not
remember, although they were the
faces of old friends. He was going to
court, he said, when one of them de-
tanned him; in few moments his nurse
led him back, without resistance, into
his room.
| my canary said la lady, 81 allow
! to fly about the room. One day the
| poor thing alighted on the hot stove and
burned its feet. 1t has never been on
| the stove since. For some time after it
| - g.,