The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-09-16
Pullman Farmers Like the
Moscow Combine

Ed Stovall, who recently gave out
an interview declaring that the Ida
no National Harvester of Moscow is
the best machine in the world, re-
turned today from Pullman where
he assisted harvesting several hun
dred acres with a Holt combine. Mr..
Stovall says that everywhere you
hear the farmers discussing the Mos
cow machine, aud that the great
majority OF them are agreed that it
has no equal today. He says he
heard many of the most prominent
wheat growers declare that they
would have them next season., and
looked for a big demand. ut was
a funny thing" said StOvall, ito
find the way some of the farmers are
boosting for the Moscow machine.
Particularly is this true OF Messrs.
Pickell and Morris, the two men
who have just finished harvesting
some 240 acres a few miles north of
Pullman. l found Morris wanting
to fight a fellow because he had
heard that the fellow had been tell.
ing that his combine wasted grain.
Morris offered to bet O hundred dol
lars that an examination of the field,
which had not been pastured since
harvest, would not show any vast
ed grain, and declared he had done
better with the Idaho National than
could be done with any other mach
inc on earth. Every where the farm
ers were discussing the Moscow
machine, and it was evident the
farmers were greatly interested in
the wonderful invention. One farmer
paid out for %threshing $40, and was
going to have a Moscow combine
because he was convinced it would
have saved him this year at least
$400 of the $40"
Mr.. Stovall, who has had many
years practical experience with COM
bines, was asked if in his experience
it was true that the combines fouled
the ground. He replied that he saw
no evidence of this. 81 am certain
an examination OF the ground will
show that the farms harvested
with combines are just as clean as
those where either binders or head
ers are used. My land was just as
sc waS that of INV h
aud l used a combine and they used
binders. l cannot tell just how il
worked on my Pullman land as it
was foul when l went onto the land,
made so by IL binder. I figured it
out that it paid me to use the CON-
bined by which l saved about Sc an
acre, and l spent about fifty cents
an acre more than my neighbors
cultivating my land and cleaning
the ground OF foul stuff. A farmer
can cultivate at little expense CON-
pared to the big cost of harvesting
per acre, and my experience was
that fifty cents extra for cultivating
and a saving Of five or six dollars
was a paying invest
ment. Experience has convinced me
that the combine way is the only
way. The farmer must get away
from the immense expense of harvest
he must solve the labor ques-
ton, and the little combine does it.
The man for whom 1 worked this
year said he was satisfied the Mos.
combine beat his big Holt, the
one l used to own, and that he in
tended to use the Idaho National"
MI. Stovall was on his way to
Montana, where he has
taken up land. He said he would
buy one OF the Moscow combines,
aud had offered to buy one OF the
1910 models il the company could
not supply him with the 1911 model.
Star Mirror.
A limited number of these mach
mes will be placed in the vicinity of
If you are interested
to the company at once.