The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-25
TRRESKINC SLOW;
MUCH OF WHEAT
STILL IN SHOCKS
Wayne Crop Headed for Eur
ope-Flow Starts to last
ern Seaboard Ports.
pv WILLIAM r. sANeoRN

BY WILLIAM r. SAN6oRN
Threshing operations seem to be
progressing but slowly, in spite OF the
fact that every outfit in the county is
working at full speed, whenever the
weather permits. The threshers
counted Monday as a lost day, be-
cause of the rainfall on Sunday. which
drenched the fields, doing world OF
good, without any damage whatsoever
because there was no wind 10 turn
things topsy turvey.
The acreage Is so large, and the
rings so big, that 1t Is taking long
time to do the work. There Is lot
OF good wheat going through the ma
chimes and there Is a host OF men en-
gagged In the work. When they have
all cleaned up for the season we shall
he richer by about two million dollars
for we are all interested in the Wayne
county wheat crop and will all benefit
in some degree. There will be about
he, 0OO. 900 Of new wheat money IN this
community, be 1t a shade more or less,
regardless of how early or how late
the crop finally reaches the market
indications are that the bulk or the
grain will be disposed of as fast as
the elevators can handle It; though
few farmers will take chance on the
future, as always.
1t was customary years ago to stack
"a lot of wheat in this section but not
$50 today. The only instance OF stack
ding coming to our notice IN wayne
was done by James Gray on the }. A
IConkey farm, southwest of Richmond
aast week. Mr.. Gray will thresh when
he gets good and ready and the rigs
are less busy.
Greensboro Receives $4,000 Bushels.
| The Greensboro Elevator company
took In 5000 bushels of wheat We'd
nesday and from the line waiting to
unload during our visit on Thursday
It was evident that there was whole
lot of threshing being done in that
vicinity. Mr.. e. s. Martindale stated
that he expected to handle IS loads
on Thursday and hoped to keep up
that pace for some time. They be-
gan receiving a little wheat on July
9th and made their first shipment on
the 18th. The elevator has storage
capacity Of about $4,000 bushels and
had taken in around $4,000 bushels up
to Thursday noon.
Shipments are made to Philadelphia
and Baltimore and 1t Is evident that
a lot OF Wayne wheat is headed for
Europe. A large percentage or TINS
wheat Is testing 60 pounds, indeed the
bulk Of it is running l and 2, Mr.. Mar
tindale states. although the yields are
in some instances disappointing. The
beet Yields we have discovered in the
Greensboro neighborhood, so far. is
reported by Lynn Nicholson and j. j
Smith, although these records may not
stand "a hours, as the bulk remains
to be threshed. Mr. Nicholson
wheat ran "a bushels on 40 acres and
tested 60 pounds. Mr.. Smith weighed
in 230 bushels from 10-acre field,
o3-bushel average of No. l grain.
Greensboro National Prospers.
1t is pretty hard to talk crops with,
out ringing in hogs somewhere, sc
here goes. Milo Gentry, president oil
the Greensboro Elevator company
shipped SIS hogs to indianapolis last
week, which brought $3.50 and Melted
$3.50 Mr.. Gentry wants to see the
color of the hair Of any Wayne county
man who can beat this record, up to
that time The lock Of hair may be
mailed with your sworn statement
Seven of MI Gentry's hogs averaged
44O lbs The sale of % cars of straight
hominy feed, and u cars of mill feed
in 1919, is reported by the Greensfork
Elevator folks.
The new cashier of the First Ma
tional at Greensboro, William T. Steers
says deposits are increasing and tha
the bank now has resources of 1902,
900. Steers came to Greensboro from
the Farmers Bank of Good Hope
Ohio, which bank he organized some
ten years ago, following the accidental
death Of r. A. Deeter through an auto
accident On April y.
Bend Threshirg Outfit Record.
The Jesse Plankenhorn farm, east o.
Greensboro, on the Richmond Hagers
town pike, was a mighty busy place
on Thursday Twenty three acres O
wheat were going through the ma
chine as We stopped to talk to the
threshers. The rig hailed from Rich
mond and is owned by c. T. H. Bone
of 20 North Seventeenth street.
The Plankenhorn crop will make thu
fourteenth for this outfit, Walter Bee
son holding the record for Quantit,
with 1854 bushels. Floyd Hunt come,
next with 1888 bushels, or - bushel
of 60 pound grain per acre. His bro
Their Horace, with a shade less thar
900 bushels, harvested % bushels 0
No. l per acre. The list of those TO
whom Bond has threshed so far. in
cludes: A. l.. Baldwin, Albert Stotter
Albert Irwin, John Bond. Horace Hunt
Walter Beeson. Floyd Hunt. Mrs. Mar
Ellis, Russell Fudge, Mrs. Tingler a
bert King, Paul Hunt, Railsback an
son and Jesse Plankenhorn.
There is often quite a difference i
the yields of separate fields on tn
same farm. as witness the case O
Walter Burgess, living near Doddridg
Chapel. From one field Mr.. Burgess
garnered 90 bushels of tip top grair
from the other field he had to be cor
tent with Is bushels per acre, accorC
ing to his neighbors.
The mill and elevator at Hager: