The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-17
DOUGLAS COUNTY WHEAT.
THREsHING NOT YET COMPLETED
IN wATERvILLE COUNTRY.
Warehouses and BuiIdings of All
Sorts Filled and Thousands of
Bushels stiII fin the Fields-Wi1I

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
WATERvIL.LE, Oct. l4.-Threshing Is
yet uncompleted throughout the Water
Vile country, though almost without ex-
ception all the machines running in this
portion of the state have been averaging
larger records per day than ever before
for an entire season. Some slight rain
week or two ago delayed the separa-
tors for a few days, but aside from this
the harvest has been an uninterrupted
and exceedingly long one. 1t Is stated
that several machines will be employed
two to three weeks vet The enormous
harvest of grain is filing UP all the sacks
ana granary storage in the country, and
farmers are resorting to all sorts Of
methods to put their crops away until
they shaD he ready to move them Off
Tor shipment. Barns, sheds and out
puidings nave been utilized, while thous-
shds OF pushels remain standing in the
fields just as left by the machines
IL Is curious sight to ride out into
me country and see these great piles Of
expanse OF stubble. Farm wagons rum
bic TO and fro. and the hum and whir
Or the separators fall upon the ear
october days are cool and an occasional
breath OF frost tingles In the morning
air. The snow creeping down on the
sides CT the Cascade foothills give a
wopdrous background TO the harvest pic
ture.
Along the Columbia river the several
warehouses have been many times filed
the grain going to the Great Northern
by boats as rapidly as thew can carry It
on. The first serious difficulty Of the
season has arisen In n shortage OF cars
The Great Northern. II Is understood. has
made an especial effort to avoid this trou-
bic. In spite of which however. the facll-
tiles for transfer at wenatchee have been
rereafediv damned. The boats have been
Obliged frequently TO leave successive
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the narrow docks. and on top OF this
when all the available space Is occu-
pied. find themselves lying waiting for
cars
All this is occurring while farmers ana
grain buvers state that the wheat has
not yet begun to move. The real move
ment VIII not begin until threshing IL
finished and the farmers have had n
chance tn look after some of their other
crons before winter sets IN This will
take some time. The month ~ Novevn-
her; allowing that prices. continue fair.
Is likely to see the roads to the river
swarm'ng with teams and the ware
houses literally buried under with sacked
grain, which. in turn win he nied onto
will tax the rrstling powers OF the west
ern end ~ the line More grain has
been grown for shiprent ont If the Wa
.ervilie country this year than ever be-
fore.
Bix Crop for on Year.
Speaking OF the tremendous crop that
the people are gathering in an son''
wear. pioneer resident said: 'It beats
ANYTHING 7 had ever evnected To see II
appears that ont here N this country we
are shown new wonders every year
When I what is done s~sson after
season. rain or no rain. heavv SHOWS or
"rht SHOWS. / cannot help but marvel
at II.
"This vear there have been many
fields OF wheat harvested going twenty
two bushels and inward TO the acre that
never had sprf,kla NJ water Some
crons have gone thai h'~h that were nut
IN by the owners ne kind af an after
thought. TNer sowad their regular acre
ere. consisting mavbe NJ fallow or
stumble. narrowed n over and rolled a
time or two. then. when evervth'ng else
was done. looked around and decided TO
nut IN an eighty or forty for hsv.
late that thev had no Idea of Il rnak-
ing ANYTHING eisa. " this wav thnt
Rut the grain sprouted and grew and
made crors some running twenty TO
nea-lv thirty bushels. fist the same.
III is not Door country TO farm IN
whore won can do that n IL rood
country--a marvellous country. There
are M ether places IN the world If so
broad an ey'ent whore YOU could do n.
TIVE Big Bend Is really the only coun-
try 7"
Tho grain ~ the country th's wear Is
good. There wne some ahr'vei N few
SECTIONS. owing chiefly 70 too thick SOW
ing, but aside from this COMPRISING 80
ut,ie fraction tho grade "a good One
cause Of ehrfvel was winter sowing OF
which there was great deal done last
saii the Taut iv,r~ IN the fact that
many farmers pnt their grain IN thicker
'har fhev ~rouid have done for sp-inr
seeding. making an allowance for winter
Milling which I'D NOT occur Some went
nrea their aeids with harrows. in the
spring. to thin out the stand, but failed
- DO u snTirientiy The trnRritv ~
piant life once the seed ss scattered Is
one ~ the most remarkable cNaracterfS-
ties. Of the soil Of the waterviile region.
The lessons learned from the eNnrf-
m~nts IN fan sowing the past wear have
been very valuable. n Il fully demon
strated that this method Is practical and
that Il has advantages over spring SOW
lng which will cause A material Increase
IN the vteid nsr acreage over the c0un-
try II viii 10 equivalent 20 an increase
~ screaKe NIL over che longest settled
| portions OF the country.
A large producer speaking ~ this.
said; ct r. not exactly new discovery.
But II comes this year IN the nature Of
revelation There has been small
three or four years with fair results.
hus nothing seems 10 have been sad
about Il, However this season the fan
acreage was found 20 h~ SO hiE and the
re~uits we're 90 favorable, not even ex-
rspt,nE the grain that proved 20 he TOO
fhlrk that everybody IN the country u
cornparinE notes on n ana getting a
move on 20 put IN large acreages before
winter comes
Thvsshsns.niaeAine men renprt many
| Yields % spring grain making thirty.
fhirty~Hve ana forty bushels 20 tho
acre