The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-09-16
ALL RECORDS SMASHED
Harvest Fields Around New Sharon
Yield Abundantly.

to the Threshing machines of the
New Sharon community finds them
nearing the end for this year. The
} threshing will practically all be done
by the close of this week. The Star
man visited some machines not visited
before this year and also visited some
who we're near town that were report
led earlier in the season.
Some Tremendous records are being
\ made this year. The Hart machine
Which has been operating in the
lBrowntown neighborhood but is now
, just east OF New Sharon reports the
: lbest yield of the season so far as we
lhave heard. They threshed 20 acres
for Sam Gorsuch which placed at the
= lowest estimate yielded 81 bushels
/ per acre. Mr.. Gorsuch thinks the yield
WAS nearer So bushels, but says he is
jgoing to measure the ground and re-
| port the exact yield later. Other rec,
ords for this machine were: J. =.
; Davis, oats, So bu.; timothy seed,
, better than bu per acre; John La
mond also had splendid yield get.
ting 1926 bu. of oats from "a acres
being yield of more than n bu. per
acle. Ernest Roland holds the record
$50 far on a yield of timothy seed,
, getting % bushels from four loads
which came off of a very small tract
: of land. Bert Sexton had 1916 bu. of
oats from II acres being also bettar
than 71A blu. per acre. Albert Tim;
i Imerman threshed 3340 blu. of oats of
LOT 20 acres, Marion Dunwoody got
, 500 from 16 acres, Mart Dunwoody
sIhad Is acres of oats which yielded
I696 bu.; VIM. KlnneTs oats yielded
,55 blu. per acre; Ray Latcham's Is
lacres of oats made 702 bu.; Lon Hat
lcher had IL acres of oats which made
1890 blu. and Bob Cowl had 426 bu. from
liz acres The average of the entire
run of this machine was about So Blu
lper acre of oats. The crew with this
machine are: Aaron Hart, engineer
: Harvey Hart, separator, and Alvin
Hart, water man. This machine made
a splendid record one afternoon,
threshing out 1904 blu. in 515 hours
Another machine visited for the
first time this year was the McGriff
machine working southwest OF town
The crew are: Roy McGriff at the
+ engine, Oscar McGriff and Tom hfc
Cain at the separator and Ralph Nc
IGriff on the water wagon. Most OF
their work has been in the neighbor
hood of Forest Home, and they report
from that section as follows: e. l.
Wood acres, $50 bushels of oats,
Dave Farmer, 20 acres oats, 1871 bu.
. or better than 631I5 bu per acre; r.
Jackson, 10 acres oats yielding els
: bu.; Clyde Robertson had 6 acres
which made $50 bu.; Mark Medley got
/ $3.50 bu. oats from 40 acres. Other
: yields reported by this machine were:
c Beaver S1l blu. wheat from rs acres
10 vipId IF mora than nor
N w. Burbank got 1884 blu. oats from
4S acres, Frank Ferguson had 10
acres which yielied 667 BIZ; UTlysas
stephen had acres which went 40
, blu; w. T. McGriff had Is acres max.
ing 660R bu.; Jesse Eastlack got 966
bu. from 20 acres. This machine made
a record of $50 Blu. in one hour at
Francis RPeSe's a wee kago Monday.
The StutZman machine working in
, IneighbOrhood of the FaiTview church
has made a fine record. They have
a large engine and one of the largest
separators ever brought to this part
of the country. Their record for
rapid work is 511 bu. in one hour
which includes setting the machine.
For extensive jobs this machine holds
the record. They threshed so acres for
Mrs. Frank Hollingsworth which made
LASS ,hu.; Ed Caleb had 1923 Blu of
oats OFF of ~ acres; Tom Gosnell got
1858 from 20 acres. and they threshed
10 acres for Eli Grimes which made
592 bu. after 20 minutes past s o'clock
in the evening; Frank Ratcllff had
40 acres which made 1000 bushels. At
Herbert Andrews on the Stutzman
place they threshed 80 acres of oats
which made 5,021 bu., an average OF
b,, - -
D drews they threshed 20 acres which
turned out 1850. These last two jobs
were threshed out without a change
. Iof boarding place which made a rec.
, ord In cooking at the Andrews place
George Pfoutz got 928 bu. from Is
acres and Jasper Russell $50 bu from
4 10 acres.
A short stop at the John Gerard ma
chine north of Union Mills revealed
the fact that Allen Henry got yield
, of 79% bu. per acre from II acres,
which is certainly a fine record Ira
Kiser also got good yield receiving
70 bu., per acre. The best quality of
oats the writer has seen this year
twas being threshed by Mr.. Gerard for
Jim Smith on the Ferguson place
, north of Union Mills.
The Denice machine is now located
, just east of town at the McVay place
being held up on account of the recent
rain. They threshed 1870 bu of oats
for John Larkins, 1870 bu oats for
Stanley Hargis, 755 bu oats for Ben
Larkins, 1885 bu oats ad S55 bu bar
'Inley for John Graham. Geo. Jenkins
Ihad 2ll4 bu oats, Hugh Groves had
1896 bu oats. Chas. Patten $50 bu
loats. Otis Noel 1104 blu oats, Clancy
Stout 1893 bu oats and VIM. Atherton
I6SS blu oats, Tom Ryan 462 bu oats
We were unable to get the yield per
lacfe as no record of the acreage was
kept by the machine man.
: The yield of oats from =: ;ffssrgss
belonging to the Charles Miller es
tate at Taintor was 24,550 bushels
this year,
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