The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-01
HARVEST WORK HAS BEGUN IN
LATAH AND WHITMAN COUNTIES

Threshing has begun in number
of places in Latah and Whitman
counties and grain is yielding better
than was expected Many fields are
expected to yield 80 to 40 bushels
and few are expected to go above
those figures. In the neighborhood
of Palouse and Genesee wheat is
yielding well. j. P. Duke, banker of
Palouse, Moscow visitor Friday,
saws that near Palouse a number of
Yields of 40 bushels for fall wheat
are reported while spring grain is
much better than any one expected it
to be. The Palouse Republic and the
Genesee News each tell of good crops
in the neighborhood of those towns.
Good Grain Near Palouse.
The first wheat Of the 1919 crop de-
| livered in this part of the Palouse
country was brought to Palouse Mon
/ day forenoon from the farm of L. F.
| Anderson, Jr., nine miles west of
town. The wheat was delivered to
the Farmers Union Warehouse COM
pany. 1t was cut and threshed by
combine Monday morning; was of the
forty-fold variety and of excellent
quality. While it was impossible to
tell definitely what the yield would
be, it was conservatively estimated
at 40 bushels.
The second load of wheat delivered
was brought to the Webster & Lam
phere warehouse by c. j. Summers of
Viola. This was also of the forty
fold variety and of good quality.
The yield per acre is not known.
1t is now certain that the yield of
fall wheat in the Palouse country will
be good and the quality will be first
class. H. R. Hechtner, manager for
the Farmers. Union Warehouse COM
pany, states that w F. Smith & Son
and Wesley Goddard are hauling
wheat direct from the machines and
that it is grading No. 1.
John Anderson and James Broyles
of the Kennedy Ford district began
threshing Thursday and are deliver
ing their wheat to Webster and Lam
phere at the Kennedy Ford houses.
Both have good crops, although it is
impossible to tell yet what the yield
per acre is.
A majority of the machines will
not begin operations before next
! Monday. 1t is estimated that at
least 25 machines will outfit here and
it is certain that there will be no
shortage of machines to take care of
the crop in good season. Men are
coming in from the outside and the
labor situation is being rapidly re-
lieved.
The principal thing bothering local
grain dealers and farmers just now
=. IL. L. Ia~ Do1a o,,I Do
latch are both reported out of sacks
temporarily and the price, which was
Is cents early in the season, has adj
vanced to 10 and 20 cents 1t is said
that a shortage exists all over the
northwest. Oat sacks are available
and some farmers are using them for
wheat.-Palouse Republic.
Genesee Yields are Good.
Harvesting and threshing are in
full swing at present in this section.
Practically all the barley is cut and
much of it threshed and in the ware
houses, and some wheat has also been
threshed and brought to town.
Morescheck Bros brought in the
first load Of grain to be received in
Genesee when they brought to the
Vollmer- Clearwater load of barley
last Saturday afternoon. They are
using combine. Their barley yield
ed about 20 sacks to the acre.
Among the other early threshers
were Roy Evans and Ernest Becker,
who began hauling barley to the
Farmers Union warehouse on Tues |
day. John Kries also threshed on
Tuesday and AL. Mayer began Wed
nesday, all threshing barley.
AS far as can be learned the Clear
water Ranch company was the first
to thresh wheat and hauling was be-
gun Wednesday to the Farmers union
The Hampton-Driscoll Ranch COM
pany also began threshing on We'd
nesday. There are several other
outfits in the community
and next week will see much activity
along that line
Yields are reported as extra good
for dry season and it is stated by
those who recently made a trip to
Colfax that about fourth of the
grain between Genesee and Colfax
had been cut and that the yield would
be good over that territory.
Considerable timothy and grain
hay has been brought to the ware
houses, the C. E. Wood company re-
porting that better than four cars
had been received by them up to
Tuesday. All grass hay is reported
as of excellent quality and the yield
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