The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-08-09
YIELDS ARE SMALL.
Thresh1ng Machine Reports Far
Behind Predictions.


The cutting of all small grain in
Redwood county was probably fin
ished last night. On the north side
OF the county the cutting was finished
on Monday evening, and this was
probably the case on the south side,
but in the central portion the har-
vest is generally backward and it
probably required all of yesterday
to have the crop of that section in
the bundle. In many instances
farmers who were backward in cut
ting, engaged their neighbors who
had finished, and in number of
fields on Monday from three to five
binders were at work cutting down
the grain.
The great difficulty this year is in
the shocking. All over the county
the cutting has been going on and
the bundles have been thrown from
the carrier in long rows across the
field, while but very few of them
have been placed in the shock This
is due to the fact that farmers find it
impossible to secure men to assist
them in the harvest field They
have been in town and offered lazy
men from 81 to $3.50 per day during
the shocking and stacking season,
and the reply of these people who
wont work is invariably that they
are waiting for the threshing ma
chimes to start up. There is no law
compelling men to work, but the city
has ordinances to take care of va
grants. AS a result of this trouble
in securing help farmers will be
obliged to risk their grain on the
field, after they themselves have
shocked'so much of it as they can.
The city presented lively ap-
pearance: Monday morning, all on
account of the harvesting and thresh-
ing season being here Farmers
were in docking sfor help, loiterers
were around to refuse work or
secure it, while five threshing ma
chine"outfits were located in the
different !portions Of the city, all
steaming up for action, and occasion
ally letting out a shrill whistle.
Their crews had all been engaged
and each crew added to the life of
the city. Besides this, work was
going on in the streets and every
where the scene was one of rustic.
All the threshing machines went
out in the afternoon and commenced
work on the grain fields near town.
The machine of Woffensmith &
Welch commenced threshing on the
20 acre tract of wheat of Fl. D.
Everett, located just inside of the
city limits, adjoining the fair
grounds. The piece was finished
before night and yielded 121 bush
els of No. 2 wheat per acre-not as
large a yield as Mr. Everett expect
ed, but larger than last year. The
machine of the Marvin boys turned
in onto the Fosgate So acre tract.
southwest of the city. The tract is.
worked by Henry Charter. The
average yield was 10 bushels per
acre of No. l wheat.
The machines of Thos., Lawrence,
and George King, three in number,
all started out on Monday, but no
yields from them had been reported
yesterday morning. Frank Ham
mer's machine was still pounding
away on A. III. SeeDeck s farm
Monday afternoon, and the yield
was not over II bushels per acre of
not very good quality.
Yesterday afternoon T. H. King
reported the threshing of barley
and oats onshis place. The latter
crop, he said, was turning out fine,
but the barley, which was expected
to run from 40 to so bushels per
acre only went 30 bushels.
Armanus Moon reports having
threshed out about five stacks of
wheat on the farm of S. o. Mason,
east of the city, and the yield was