The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-07-07
A THRESHING PARTY
NEAR SMYRNA.

About ten a m last Friday MI
Jim Delk stopped in front OF the
Journal office in one of his fine, higl.-
stepping automobiles and asker US If
we would like to go with him to see
a little old Ford roadster thiesk
load of wheat. Like the darkey who
said "Yessir-who dat?" in reply TO
a proposal of marriage over the
phone. we said ITO be sure, how far
is it from town."
Mr. Delk was not sure-not even
which direction TO take in order to
catch up with is uncle, Mr.. r. n.
Delk, who has threshed as crops of
wheat within a weeks time with
threshing machine to which h at
taches his little auto built for two
So we took our boss man" and
Joined Mr.. Delk and Mr.. H. B. Clay
in the new car and went out the Ros-
well road where we met a teamster
on load of straw who said the
wheat thresher was near Smyrna.
We then meandered through the
woods and down the road until we
came to Mr. T. J. Williams farm in
tire to see the threshing. The big
red machine stood under the two cab
trees between the new barn in which
the sheaves of wheat had been stored
and the old barn into which the
straw was to be stored.
The hood over the little Fords
vitals had been removed, a big can
for water had been attached to the
radiator, the right front wheel had
been slightly backed" like a COW 6
leg at milking time, and a long leath-
er belt run from the threshing mach
inc to the power attachment CI the
auto front which Mr.. Delk has re-
Gently patented. Mr.. R. d. DelN was
assisted by a black Hercules in blue
overalls in steadying the gasoline
steed with blocks and pegs of hard
wood and adjusting the long balt
while several men and boys brought
the bundles of wheat to the machine.
When it began to hum the boys, from
a baldheaded neighbor to a bare,
foot boy of 10 or -, worked with
frantic haste to supply sheaves as
fast as two men could feed them no
the machine. others held half
bushel measures to catch the wheat
while two more raked the shining
straw into the small barn. Mr. Clay
and the Journal man stood near with
open watches and, as the Ford hum
med merrily, announced that bush.
ell of wheat had been threshed in 70
seconds. Mr.. Jim Delk smile and
said; "The Ford could go faster out
the threshing machine is running at
its highest speed"
The black and blue hostIer car
essed the little roadster with giances
of pride and poured water into the
radiators can. The sun ahone
brightly and the wind blew steadilv
1t was an ideal day for thrashng
wheat
Mr.. Williams mother came out
TO see the performance and Mr.. Clay,
who is a miller was fully convinced
that every farmer needs one of Mr.
Delk's attachments to his Ford.
Mr.. II. c. Hudgins, who lives at
Smyrna, las been using one of these
attachments for year to r.,p all
kinds of farm machinery and al~O to
haul things in the auto truck to
which it is attached. AS We sat in
tie swing on a front porch and saw
three farmers drive by with two. fine
mules and a beautiful horie, we
thcUght the days of these domestic
animals are numbered. Machinery
"aH endure so much more than flesh
AID blood of any kind
We saw humming-b at a cNr-
l9r Of the vine-shaded porch, broods
Of ChiCi>, MS of all ages auI wei e
deeply interested in the frycls peck
ing daintily in the grass.
1t is the time when lilies blow and