The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-08-12
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This is threahing time in Che wheat
belt. Harvest 10 practically over.
|: Since june 20, whea tho rsapers began
20 buzz On the loweraida 81 Oklahoma,
the rush has been on. si VS. \
{ The work has been rushed day and
night. The farmers in aome places
wanted 90 use the aelf.bipders and
wagons oil the time, so they hired two
sets Of men and two ests of horses.
One shift vent on at innthe morn
ing and worked until Gin the even
ing; then theother worked until morn
ing. The latter, when darknes came,
hung lanterns on the harness " the
horses and on the machines, then
went ON with the quitting. Full moon
came.during the harvest this year and
helped out wonderfully. So the far.us
we're q1ickly sheared Of their golden
fleece. Us. e 5 w.. @
. The merriest of the laborers were
the collegc5b who sought the har-
vest fields By hundreds. Fresh from
the class room they went among the
sheaves, donning blue overalls and
wide straw hats costing 10 centa each
at the conntry stores. After the
days work was over they sang college
songs aud made love to- the farmers
daughters.
Now for tho thresh;ng comes the
=n.omchile ce .he plains. Tie I. IS (. hhtuss,
clumsy affair, with wheels six Feet
high and tires 15 inches across, a can
opy over the long boiler and plat
form in the rear, where stands the
blue-clothed chauffeur. He guides
the machine with "a wheel like his
city cousin and he toots his warning
whist!e.with aa keen q delight in the
antics Of the country horses. sF..
But what train he takes behind
himl The other day q traction engine
and it's equipment went through the
streets Of Kansas City. Where it
came from nobody knows-or whysit
was SO far from the grain fields could
not be told. But 800 people gazed
in wonder at the arrange procession.
Thls sort Of thing is common Aera,
and often in the still prairie night the
hoot and roar Of its passing awakes
the population. This is its equip
ment: First, the huge numbering en-
gine from whose smokestack pours a
roll Of black soft-coal deflement; next
an odd-shaped teetering coal wagon on
two whesls; then a towering separa-
tor, or threshing machine, big, red
and rattling; behind this house on
wheels; then water wagon and last a
buggy, in which Elowly rides the pro- =
prietor os thosoutflt, so to speak J, : in
his private oar attached to the rear of.
the train. &
Something to be proud Of, amt
it?" said Tom Whitney as he halted
the train at the foot Of a hill where
the engineer raised the steam pressure
higher in the gauge preparatory s
the climb 1--WE been workin' lO
years to get this together. Cost me
So. .010----s1 90 300 for the sHsiue and
separator and the balance for extrys.
I've got 10 good men in that there
cook shanty and = cook who can beat
tn band. III don I make money this
year il amt my fault. 4 So
He will make money all right-ail
the shreshers will this year. They
have trust, q combine, o s'eommu.n-
ity ofinterest.
All through the spring they have
been holding meetings behind closed,
Doors in the country towns, arranging
for the coming Of the harvest. Here:
tofore every farmer has made his owl,
contract with the thresher and evc,y
thresker has charged what;ne pleased. 4
AS q aresult some made only trifipgS
wages; Others lost maney.
Practically every threshsr 10 the
vest now belongs TO- the Thresher-
mans: Protective union, nnd q schedule
# prices is fixed from which the fsr-
mer cannot esoapeif he hires one Of 4
The threshing outfi II ranges from
our cent Al Ehashel, when the farmer
'urnishea and boards tho hands, so
'eyen cents when the thresher aoes &c
Ill The latter is tho fclsi Il GIson ID and
popular way It means ease for the
'armer Family aud better times for
;he Grew
Out against en- osage hedge on the
Cooper place was set the cook shanty.
e IS |la,a Y great oblong Kitchen on wheels.
The ioutside is painted red !, and long
window extends from front &, "a Il. its !