The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-10
|PLAINVILLE HUNS
Town viii Ship 100000 Bush
els Of Wheat.
1t Is of Superior Quality and
In Great Demand.

RIAlnV1IIG, NALL, July s4V-1 al a0A0S
Flats is a record breaker this year In
the growing of wheat. Centrally sit
uated in the big wheat belt, she will
this year surpass all former years IN
the shipment of grain. Close est1-
mates place the number OF bushels
tributary to this town at SOC. 900. Not
only is the yield large. but the quail
ity is unexcelled. The amount of glu-
ten in the Plainville wheat Is such that
a reputation has been established for
it. and the mills in many California
points purchase 1t in large quantities.
twenty-five thousand bushels from
his LOO acres is what M. T. Bear ex-
poets mis- crop to thresh out. o. A.
Lemon. who a few years ago received
a check of $4,000 for his wheat crop,
expects another check equally large
from this years crop. There are many
farmers and wheat raisers in Rocks
county, tributary to Plainville. who
will have more than 10000 bushels
each.
Elevators in Plainyille.
There are five elevators in Plainville
and all Of them have been put in re-
pair to handle the wheat crop which is
already a reality. and the big corn crop
which is promised. The Plainville Mill
and Elevator company. Incorporated
with a capital stock of $4,000, with ].
" Burroughs. president: c. N. Bur-
roughs, vice president; and H b. Bur-
roughs. secretary and treasurer. is one
Of the big enterprises that is helping
northwest Kansas. Through the per-
sistent efforts Of this firm, the busi-
ness has branched out from fifty
barrel capacity mill in the early SOS to
a three hundred barrel mill at the
present time, or as soon as enlarge
ments now under way are completed.
The present is the company's third
mill. the first having been burned.
The second mill had a capacity Of 10
hor nd iu
part Of the present new MILL in which
heavier and more modern machinery
is being installed.
The Plainville Mill & Elevator COM
pany received a gold medal at the st.
Louis exposition for the superior merit
competition.
Other Industries.
Aside from the success of the men
identified with the Plainville Mill &
Elevator company, as millers, and the
good reputation they have earned.
they operate an elevator of $4,000
barrels capacity, and have handled a
keted here for many years. They also
own and operate the electric lighting
system of Plainville. and furnish cur
rent at a satisfactory rate to patrons.
The water at the city plant is also
pumped with power furnished by
them.
They not only have made a success
of their own business, but have also
been strong factors in the upbui1ding
of Plainville.
Plainville's church property aggre-
gates 100000. There is a modern
school building costing $4,000, a Car
negie library, an a new township
hall. Electric lights. wafer system.
ten miles OF cement walks. and two
banks make -'l.inville attractive. The
Red Line auto higf way from Kansas
City to Denver runs through Plain
vile.
It Loads in Hurry.
Concordia, Kan, July 1O.-A ma
chine invented by Wilfred Peltier is a
device for loading the shocked wheat
into a wagon driven alongside. after
the manner of a barge driven beside a
header.
Four horses are hitched to the ma
chine and the teams are driven one on
each side RI the row Of shocks, and as
fast as the team can travel the shocks
are elevated into the wagon to be
hauled to the threshing machine.
/ The operation Of filling one wagon
rack ready to be driven to the thresher
requires only one minute.
The machine in operation saves the
labor of six men and two teams in
the operation of a threshing machine
| threshing from the shock.
Thirty Bushels to Acre at Frankfort
Frankfort. Kan, July 1o.-The
wheat in this locality is averaging bet
| ter than thirty bushels to the acre, SO
Tar as the threshing will show. I. A.
Rice's wheat averaged 80 bushels.
Morris CutshalPs averaged 80 bushels
and 40 pounds Resen Clark is thresh-
ing wheat which he says will go bet
ter than 40 bushels to the acre. 9th
ers have threshed wheat averaging 26
bushels. The wheat in this locality is
probably the best in the state. At
other points it is not turning out as
well as was expected, while here it is
turning out better than was estimated.
1t Is probably safe guess to place it
all at 30-bushel average
|, GOSSIP, OF THE Spf,t.TS