The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-07
Machines Busy Turning Out the
Golden Grain in Many Sections;
First Load Marketed at
Bradley Yesterday
CUTTING CONTINUES
In LOW LANDS
Some Damage from Wet Weather
is Reported; Courtney Takes
Trip and Finds Finest /.
Corn Prospects

Threshing is on in Grady county. In
any number OF fields machines were
being set and the first load of bundles
run through yesterday afternoon and
early visitors into the rural districts
today report grain ready to be hauled
from many fields. Reports from
other towns indicate that the work is
on full force. with probably total OF
dozen threshers pouring out the
grain today.
f. h. Moore visited Bradley yester-
day There one load of wheat was
marketed, and several other farmers
were preparing to begin work this
morning. The yield was hardly up to
expectations in the threshed field, a
great deal of damage having resulted
from poorly constructed shocks. Mr..
Moore reports machines set ready for
action in the regions around Ninnekah
and Alex. Little is being done around
Rush Springs. farther south, Henry
Mileur. farmer from that section.
states, However, there is little small
grain raised there.
A machine is reported to have begun
work on the Wheeler farm northwest
of Chickasha last night. Barley was
being threshed and preparations were
being made to begin hauling to town
Immediately after noon today Work
men there reported the bundles still
rather wet and difficult to thresh.
M. f. Courtney, who drove to Ana
darko in his automobile yesterday, re-
ports seeing two other machines ready
for work last night. besides the one in
the Wheeler fields. just north of R. A.
Lyle's alfalfa farm. Farmers declared
they believed the shocks dried out suf-
ficiently to thresh and that all avail
able machines were beginning their
season early this week. Some wheat
and oats cutting is still going on along
the bottoms. but only a small per cent
of the grain has been left standing
Much that was caught by the wet
weather can vet be saved
Reports coming in from Amber, Tut.
tie. Pocasset and Minco stated that
machines there were in the fields and
many of them had already turned out
the first load of grain. No reports
had come in as to yield, since no mar
keting had been done. Some damage
from the wet weather was reported
which would lower the quality slightly
Though no selling was done in ans
of the Chickasha elevators this morn
ing, millers reported tho price around
So cents.
With farmers prepared to spend two
more weeks threshing and marketing
their small grain, corn ana feedstufrs.
are reported to be in better condition
than has ever before been known in
this county. Several years of dry sea-
sons permitted farmers to clean fields
almost perfectly of weeds so that when
the wet weather came this year they
escaped the usual loss from weedy
crops. On returning from his trip
across the country from Anadarko, Mr..
Courtney declared that he had never
before seen such corn SINCE leaving
the river valleys of the northern corn
sections.
The crop is now in the silk and tas-
SCI and has reached the stage where
small weeds cannot bother it.
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