Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-08-13
PROGRESS OF THE HARVEST
Binders, Combines and Threshers
Running. Ideal Weather
Plenty of Help

Ideal weather conditions for har-
vest prevail and excellent prorress
is being made, Binders have been
running for nearly two weeks and
many Of them have completed their
season. run. Combines are at work
and h"e making good progress, but
in some cases the work has been de-
iayeG because the sack sewer could
not keep up with the work, the fuaiu
is 50 leayy, A lev thresheys arc
running md several others will start
Within few days.
VIII {. Nastin on the George Ford
farm, finished cutting his crop of lI0
acros more than week ago. The
hc.l is of the f5rty-fold variety
and splendid yield is expected. "a
did not lose an acre nf grain because
.of The rains, | got all of 1t and
,torc has been practically nc waste. 81
slid ,Ir Mastin to The Herald re-
porter. After finishing cutting his
own grain Mr.. Mastin went into the
Gel If Trent Jones and is cuttinf
that i"r him.
II is estimated that more than half
II hc grain which will be cur with
Il binder IS already III the shock. wait
ing for shreshing machines But a
su.aiI per cent OF the wheat which
will lie harvested with combines has
been cot. as these machines must
wait rntil the grain is thoroughly
1pc L,1arc cuttinG it, Tdcre are
fully a dozen combines at work in
tn Vicinity of Pulllnan, No. reports
of a., yields have reen received y"t,
beyond the general report thu nor
u, II yields are be n~ harvested. j.
S. k'emgard went out to stJ'l his
comhine Wednesday morning E. y
otUyall started his Tuesday. llcary
Young started his L aChine la@ wet k
ard Fred Hungate has fini3lpl cutt-
ing lis Grain on his Garfield coIH'y
ranch and has brought the machine
t. his ranch near Wawawa! and IS
cutting there and hauling to the
warehouse at the tlamwaI
1hrcshers began running neat AL
bion llet week. Saturday steam
ttrcsEer was at work on tbc faral Of
!. A Fsrr, and several other ma
chimes have been at work in that
for several days Link
Ful man began Yesterday on the
JoLn Metsker farm east of town, ard
doZea machines will be al work
in the fields near Pullman within 4
few Gays. There is an abundance
CT help. men being more plentiful
than Usual but there is a scarcity
OF horses and the demand for these
is strong. Men with teams find no
GilIicIlty III getting work, while men
without teams have to seek for jobs.
With the running out of "a lot of
hOboes and agitators there is now
a good class ON men left here seek
ing work and it is thought that most
of them will find employment when
the harvest machines are all at work.
Reports from the harvest fields
say that grain is shattering badly
and that unless much care is used
in handling it much of it will shell
out and be lost This is attributed
10 the heavy rains of last month
@hich swelled the grains, which were
already very plump and heavy, until
the chaff was broken. After the
gram dried out and the kernels
shrunk to their original size, it left
the chaff cracked and the grain loose
in the chaff With this condition it
is bound to shatter badly and farm
ers say that where wheat has been
cut with a binder and the sheaves
dropped, there is a lot of wheat scat
tered out on the ground Those who
have hogs to gather this up are for
tunate, but those who have no hogs
are bound to suffer considerable loss.
Reports of sgut in the grain are
common and it is agreed that there
is more than the usual amount of
smut this year. No one seems to
know what causes this condition. 1t
is not confined to any variety of
grain nor to any locality. 1t is be-
lieYed to be due to the methods of
preparing the seed, for many farmers
have no smut at all in their grain
while their neigh bors, with the same
soil and weather conditions, have a
large per cent. of smut The college
experiment station staff is studying
this matter and will make a report
on it.