Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-08-27
PROGRESS OF THE
GRAIN HARVEST
Millions of Bushels of Wheat
Being Saved in Inland
Empire Each Week.

Ideal weather has prevailed dur
ing the past week and splendid pro-
gress has been made in the harvest
fields. In the vicinity of Pullman.
where the season is later, harvest
is not nearly so far advanced as in
other portions of the Inland Empire,
where the season is earlier and the
yield lighter. Fall wheat is yield
ing well in this locality and the esti
mates for the average yield of fall
wheat within 10 miles of Pullman is
placed at between 10 and so bushels.
Many yields of 80 bhshels have been
reported, while none of less than 40
have been heard of here. Conserva-
tive men place the average for fall
grain at 10 bushels or more per acre.
This is the estimate of j. S. Klemgard
and c. A. Price, two old settlers,
who are regarded as conservative
and also excellent judges of grain.
Combined machines, which cut
land thresh at one operation are run
ming in all directions from Pullman,
while many steam threshers are at
work in the fields of shocked grain.
The weather has been dry and cool,
and good progress has been made
with all kinds of machines The men
and teams have stood the work well.
Long hours are put in, as everyone
is anxious to get as much done as
possible, and every hour of daylight
! is utilized, The whistle of the steam
morning and o'clock at night. A
light rain fell near Wawawai Monday
morning, delaying harvest work for
a few hours, but the farmers put
their teams to the wagons and be-
gan hauling grain to the Warehouses,
where it was stored out of danger of
injury by rain, so the time was not
lost Since then there has been much
cool, cloudy weather, which threat
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farmers it did no damage, being real
| ly a benefit for more work can be
accomplished in cool than in hot wea-
| ther.
Grain is beginning to come into
| the warehouses at "A nvely rate and
in a week or ten days the rush of
hauling will be well under way.
! At the tramWay warehouse, above
| Wawawai, a vast amount of grain
is being handled, the amount receiv-
ed daily running from 1900 to $500
sacks, and this is expected to be in
creased to 5000 sacks per day in a
week or ten days Harvest is further
advanced there than nearer Pullman
and many machines have been at
work in that neighborhood for two
weeks or more. Fred Hungate has
all of his grain from 500 acres on
his Whitman county ranch, in the
tramway warehouse and number
of other farmers are hauling there
with two, three, four and six-horse
teams.
Pullman warehouses are getting
much wheat, the daily receipts in
creasing each succeeding day. The
Farmers Union warehouse is get
ting the bulk of the wheat coming
here, as is the case at Whelan, Kitz-
miller and Busbey, where the Pull
man Union Warehouse Company has
warehouses. At Kitzmiller the
Farmers Union Warehouse got l.
500 sacks one day while the Puget
Sound house got As sacks. AT John
son, where the Farmers Union leas-
ed the Kerr-Gifford house, the farm
ers are getting all they can handle
while the old line houses are do
ing nothing.
Wheat is found to be of excellent
quality in this neighborhood. The
college hybrid wheats are grown ex-
tensisely and are proving to be great
yielders as well as fine grain, being
plump and well filed and hard as
flint. There is less smut in this
eighborhood than in many others
and there has not been a single smut
explosion in the vicinity Of Pullman,
while there have been more than a
dozen in Whitman county since har-
vest began. A noticeable feature is
that no one has ever heard of a smut
explosion on a combined machine
and grain men are trying TO study
out why this is true.