The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-05
WHEAT BY THE WAGON TRAIN
A Steam Engine Aids kansan In
Moving HIS Big Crop.

Fowler, Kas.. Nov. While
/ Cheyenne county, Kas., has been
making some revelations in the mat
ter of farming with gasoline motors,
Meade county has just topped off the
demonstration by seeing wheat
| hauled to market in wagon trains
J drawn by steam farm engine. In
two trips J. c. F. McCauley, the
county's most extensive farmer, cat
tie and hog raiser, brought more
1 than a full carload of wheat to mar
ket from his big farm of twenty
Ieight quarter sections, where he has
| 100 acres in the cereal. More than
that he turned around at the sta
ton here and hauled a car OF coal
home on the return trip. The feat
brought grain men and spectators
from considerable distance, but Nc
Cauley didn't believe he had done
anything unusual
The motive power for this trip
was 20-horse power steam farm
engine. Behind it were hitched coal
and tank wagon and seven big double
sidebard farm wagons, each one fill
ed to the limit with wheat McCauley
had already sold s400 worth of the
cereal from his farm when he made
this trip.
McCauley never bins his wheat
When it Is threshed it lies in piles
and he makes every effort to get it
moved as quickly as possible The
engines. which make frequent trips
and big loads possible, help him ma
terially in this respect and he saves
the cost of building bins. no slight
expense for 100 acre wheat farm
For the big double wagon train
load Mr.. McCauley got 50 IL cents
bushel in Fowler
McCauley is a believer in innova-
tons, and his idea is that they are
not out of place on the farm. Just
before he demonstrated that he
could haul wheat to market with his
steam engine over the Western Kan
sas roads he built complete saw
mill on his farm to utilize big
patch of cottonwood timber growing
along a stream which bisects his sew
en-section farm. One of the big en-
gines furnished the power, and the
cattle. hog and wheat raiser added
numbering to his industries. He has
turned out enough for the rough
numbering of two big houses, several
stables and several miles of fence,
for which the cottonwood is particu-
larry available. Those who know the
lumber will remember that its crook
ed grain leaves it decided tendency
to warp, which no amount of mailing
will prevent. 1t doesn't matter in a
fence, but it's different in a house.
McCauley gave his neighbors
q NO hnv ,tnr br,N Il y \;
100 acres of wheat He owns three
complete threshing machines; had
four header gangs busy for harvest,
and, as soon as that was over. pre-
pared his ground for another crop
with two big steam plows. His third
engine was doing the last of the
while the others plowed !
McCauley has solved the problem
of doing away with the horse and /
too many hired men most thorough |
ly He owns gang plows, double lis
ters. steam disc plows, wheat drills,
kaffir corn binders, corn planters,
1arrows. etc. all rugged up for use
behind the engines.
More than that, he waters his farm
by means OF three big windmills.
When the wind fails he has three
gasoline engines to fall back on
Crops never fail. When wheat is poor
cattle and hogs are good. and vice
versa.
But then, one ought to prosper on !
$500 acres