The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-27
HARVEST AT WALLA WALLA
Early beginning of the work Due
TO Favorable Conditions-Sieid
VIII Not lie Large.

Special Dispatch 10 the Post-lntelligencer.
WALl-A NALI.A, June 26.-Harvest
Yesterday several binders were started
In different parts of the valley and next
Monday scores of headers Will begin to
cut the golden grain. In the vicinity OF
Waitsburg number of binders are run
ming in the wheat fields, and nearer rtis
city some OF the earlier fail grain is being
put into the shock.
il mas been many years since the har-
vest began in June. but this has been an
unusual year and the crop ripened quick
~ as well as having the advantage of an
early spring and favorable weather. The
season has been favorable all along. and
but slight damage has been done by hot
winds or rust, when the entire valley Is
taken into account. The spring grain is
now heading out nicely, and IL very
rank green color but the acreage Of this
sort OF crop Is small when compared with
the hundreds OF thousands OF acres OF
fall sowing.
Ia the Eureka fat country the wheat
II about ready for the binder, but the
farmers there Insist upon cutting with
headerA, and the harvest Is thus delayed
a week or so, 20 allow the grain 10 ripen
and the straw 10 become so dry>-thAt IL
VIII not sweat after Il is put into the
stack. The header takes the grain di-
rectly from the stubbia 10 the stack and
the straw must be dry or sweat will
result, and the grain be ruined.
bin9ers. headers aud threshers have
been handled rapidly the last few days.
ana the railroads have been sending out
cars of machinery every day for a month
Ne" InSc hines are being bought and old
ones repaired until every mechanic in
town Is worked almost day asd night
Ehresbers and headers from the PaIouse
country are beginning 20 arrive. Yester-
day a threshlug rag arrived from Mos
cow, Idaho, TO make the run here and
set back to the PaiOuse country Ia time
for the harvest there. which viii c0ns on
a month later than In this section. Near
~ a dozen other rigs have been shipped
10 this section, and they via arrive Ia a
few days.
Il il estimated that atty to seventy
days VIII - occupied with harvest work
and that about 2Daa extra men will 10
needed 60 cat and tAresh the crop now
ready for the blnder There are hun
dreis uf wprkinSmeu here already. bat
TIE supply "a ru4reiN Inadequate 90 the
demand. EgrvSa IA, farmers alone are
c1iln8 foE 700 men 30 work from forty 20
stNti days 20 falr WAGES. ard aftcr bar
vest several daAa extra can De- pat IN
while the grain 81 hciuE delivered tn the
warehouse fat storage AS EurtkR rat
Is but small par; 81 the valley devoted
To- wheat groWthg- lt can be reen that
several hundred ne4 ag~ aeed~d
"a s. nov conceded chat the crup viii
NOT Weld 50 heavily aa WAS anticipated
a week or NO aEu. tho grain is allied
out vel az ihe top 90 tns head bus far
sefao reason NOS explained the lower
part OF thu head IS short two dr. three
nr-hes 80 nearly eYerF case Farmers
are at q jces ta know boa This shortage
Aappe aed, $50 90 81 unusual. ard has not
te-ea noticed in years pas. The heads
are pr ~a plump s- -@iat. ana the weld
will hc -lt down en this account Usually
The head contains aha4E torty ~ sixty
er4.uf. ard cash mesh VIII carry from
in.ce Go fHtr grains. This year very
tcW heads carry more tAaa farsf grains
ara g. ts seldom THAR Ersh SIS found
Wnlch Nas more tsau fw1 grains While
fhr tFp&s aye about SIS long ne Usual.
they a-e uut pear.s -a p.umg end fuil
IL ~ 11t easy fa sag baN much shortage
Uii result fram tbis cause. bai TX Nal
bf Cous.4era5.s.
FOR week the price has been sa.ug
up. ami the farmers are feeling better
Considerable Ettg wheat has already k.-eu
contracted ar SD CENTS. 60 De taken rtrhf
from The machine ta The Gag OLA a heat
* good grAIe - selling az " 70 Is cents.
bus only small lois agv selling. II the
prlcr holds u0 until the machines start
"a large part ef the rev crop w.ll DE sold
and delivered AZ once.