The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-09-04
A MILLION DOLLAR
WHEAT CR0PI0N
AMPB.ELLI FARM
SINGLE TRAIN OF So CARS SOLID
TO BE SHIPPED; ~ CARS
HAVE ALREADY GONE
Cutting and Threshing Operations
On Campbell Area Near Hardin
Expected to Yield 100000 Bush
els; Is a World Mark.

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A million dollar wheat crop is
being harvested, threshed and
shipped from a single farm in Mon
tana. Not since Adam was driven
from the garden of Eden t O earn
his food by the sweat of his brow
not even since Cyrus Mccormick
invented the mower which made
reaping a labor of some ease COM
pared with the old sickle and Grad
lie methOds-haS that been done. 1t
is therefore a world record in grain
growing and harvesting that is be-
ing set on the Thomas D.. Camp
bell farm on the Crow reservation,
near Hardin, Montana.
Three-fifths of the tremendous
crop has been harvested so far, that
is $4,000 of the $4,000 acres in No.
/ dark hard wheat have been cut and
the greater part threshed, for the
farm is operated on the combine
basis-the grain isthreshed as it is
moved by the gigantic machines,
which perform a combination of OPP
erations as powerful tractors drag
them tirelessly through the acres of
yellow ripened grain.
So far 27 cars of wheat have been
shipped and it is planned to send out
a single train of So cars, solid of
grain. The crop is being sold in
Minneapolis, the nearest market ca
pable of handling such a vast output
Immediately as it is harvested. 1t
is of such fine quality that it COM
mandS a Dremium
Averages 80 Bushels.
AS far as the operations have pro-
ceeded the grain is averaging 80 bu-
shells to the acre. At that average
the $4,000 acres will produce $780,
600 bushels.
Owing to the use of the combine,
a vast s~alvaging of weed seed and de-
fective wheat berries is performed
along with the threshing which will
afford feed for many thousands of
sheep or herds of cattle and will
avoid heavy loss in dockage at the
grain terminals.
Tom Campbell knows the wheat
game as no other farmer in the coun-
try, and all his operations and me-
thods are conducted with every COM
pliance possible in accordance with
scientific information and wisdom,
During the early days of the har-
vest five crews were employed cut
ting and ~threshing the crop, and then
eight were put into the field, it be-
ing the desire to speed the remainder
Of the harvest, as there are 5000
acres of flax still to be harvested af-
ter the wheat has been all taken care
of.
In the meantime, $1,000 acres of
land have been plowed, disked, drag
ged and prepared for seeding, and
Thai important operation will be-
on the heels of the harvest, when it
has been completed. The plan is to
seed $4,000 acres for the 1925 crop.
The Campbell corporation main
tains a machinery plant and yard in
Hardin, where are stored the multi
plicity of l~abor-saving devices with
which Campbell farms are operated.
At the head of the outfit is a fleet
of ~ tractors. Not a horse is used
on the farm-all machinery. 1t is
almost a daily sight to see one or
more of these tractors, these days,
dragging 10 or IL wagons out to the
harvesting operations to haul bum
dies of wheat in straw to the separ-
ator thresher or bags of wheat going
from the threshingf machine to the
railroad. More than a score of bun
die wagons are in service in the
fields at the present time. Dunmore,
a small station five miles east of
Hardin, is the shipping point. The
wagons carry $50 to 100 bushels to
the load to this place, and Dunmore
is a very busy little freight point
these days.
Huge Separator.
A separator which is also being
used in the harvesting is four years
old, has a 48-inch cylinder and is pro-
PEELED by a 110-horse power engine.
Seven men are engaged continuously
in heaving bundles into the self-feed-
er-three from each side, and a
cleanup 'forker. Despite the volume
Of grain forced into it the machine
does not clog the engine down. The
only stops are made for water and
when accidentally there gets in with
the grain a pitchfork, for the assim-
of which the machine is not
provided.
Incidentally a few days ago, when
4 party of Case machine men were ]