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VOL. LIV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JULY 15, 1899. NO. 28 'gxpzxizntz S^avlmmt. IN THRESHING TIME. let Premium.—In threehlng In this neighborhood we used to follow the machine from place to place, threehlng each job in turn, the man whose wheat was threshed furnishing the meal for all hands. As we are all email farm* ers here perhaps the machine would threeh three or four jobs in one day, and thus perhaps one or two neighbors would not have to feed the hande, but the cookB would be iu a flurry for a day or two, and knowing juet which way the machine would move, or what break might change the time of threshing, and therefore they would not know how many to cook for, or whether to cook at all; then the rushing around for hands and to get the hands together in the morning. It wae agreed that the crew eyetem was all right for the big farmer, but would not work eo well for the little farmer where so much moving was to be done. We have now had the crew for two yearg. The threshermen furnish all hands, even to tying the sacks. They have their cook wagon and tent, which le eent on to a convenient place, and the cook knowe juet what to do. The farmer takes care of his grain and foots the bill at 7 cents per bushel, and the good wife goes on in the even tenor of her way just as though the threshing were not being done, I have heard threshermen talking of certain farmers being good feeders, meaning that they set a good table, and they would ruBh things to get there; or the machinery needed cooling. But with the crew system they run steady from start to finish with no dallying around, nursing a job to get to some man's table. A thresherman without a crew cannot get work In this vicinity any more. One tried it laBt fall, and although a good thresher with good machinery he had to pull home with wheat in sight; and we were wanting it threshed badly enough too, but we waited for the crew. Olark Oo. J. W. Williams. 2d Premium. — Here in Sumner county, Kane, for eeveral years the threshers have furnished all the hands and fuel; they also board their hands, and deliver the threshed grain in the wagon. No sacks are used. The farmer hauls the fuel, UBually coal, and empties the wagon. The machine charges six cts. for wheat and three for oats. They have followed thiB plan for several years. Neither machine men or farmers would go back to the old way. They have a portable kitchen, the cook lg often the thresher's wife. Each hand furnishes his own blanket. They sleep in the sheds, or around the straw stack. One advantage to the thresher is that he always Ins experienced help, each man has his place. They will set in one-fourth the time that it used to take when they depended on voluntary help from the farmer's hands. They begin a job at once on arriving, as the help ig on hand. They often etart up and thresh a few loads in the evening, or in any little spare time. They can often start an hour earlier ln the morning. In a good season they can average 200 bushels more a day than by the other way. Some of the advantages to the farmer are, lgt. he has no help to look after, which often takes a half day or more, and lt is often that they have to Bo around and notify them. Then likely one or two will be abeent. It also takes time to Payback which we ought to be using stacking our wheat or plowing corn. 2nd. no hands to hoard, except one or two to haul the wheat 'rom the machine. In this country nearly all «e land is sowed to wheat. Many farmers have not an acre of corn. The jobs run from 'W acres to 500 acres. It is all threshed out tne "hock or stack as soon ag possible after cutting. In hauling to the granary we uee wagons with tight boxes. We have three. We the wagon by the chute from the elevator. The machine tallies the bushels or it is counted by the wagon load. Wet weather reduced our yield this season to half a crop. There are five machines within one and a half miles of this town of Rome Station. D. M. A. Rome, Kas. 3d Premium.—We have for several years belonged to a company or club of farmers combined to facilitate the work of threshing. The farms of the nine members are situated on or near a road with a distance of over three miles between those farthest apart. One machine is engaged to do all of the work beginning at one end of the line and taking the farms in regular order, so that no time ig lost in unnecessary hauling over the roads. All of the threshing is done from the shock, and tbe regular help on these farm supplies nearly all of the 20 or more men needed and also all of the teams and wagons. The men including thoee who operate the machine, are furnished dinner and supper. By a liberal exchange of help among the cooks, the work of providing for so many men ls not so burdensome. The plan has given good satisfaction to all concerned. No time is lost waiting for the machine, nor ln going from one farm to another. Worry over the uncertalnities of preparing meals is reduced to the minimum, and then there is little unneceeeary outlay of money, ae nearly all of the work is done by the regular farm force. O. P. L. Union Oo. In this neighborhood, which was originally settled by people from thesouth, where hospitality ig carried to an extreme, it has been customary from time unmemorlal for the farmer to furnish board for the threshing hands. This makes threshing time quite burdensome upon the women of the family as well as on the purse, as even with a small amount of grain, it is almost always necessary to furnish a meal for 15 or 20 hands, sometimes for 25 or 30. This takes off much of the already small profit. One never knows just when the machine will come, so they live in a state of expectant dread for days and perhaps weeks. Farmers' wives vie with each other as to which can prepare the biggest and finest dinner; then the hands, after their hot and exhausting work, partake of great quantities of rich victuals, much to the detriment of their digestive eyetem. There ought to be some way to do away with much of this trouble and expense. In some places each man provides his own lunch, and where tried thie plan hae proven very satisfactory. Lass time will be taken forthe meal, and the men will be in better condition for hard work than if satiated with so much hot and greasy food. As to threshing outfits which furnish all their own men and teams and board themselves, this has never been tried in this locality. The plan seems to work well ln the thinly populated weet, but in thickly settled communities, where neighbors can conveniently exchange work, it probably saves considerable cash expense to do so. There seems to be a growing sentiment agalnet boarding hande ln all kinds of work, and probably before many years this burden upon the farmers' wives will be greatly lessened. J. G. W. Wayne Oo. The better method of threshing will depend on the locality. In central Indiana, where farms are email, I think the old fashioned way of helping for help back the best way. A poor man can help back and eave money. But in localities where large farms predominate I think the best plan is to hire at a certain price per bushel, the thresherman to fumleh everything, and the farmer take bis grain from the machine. Where farms are large help is usually scarce and the uncertainty of the weather often makes it annoying to get it. In some neighborhoods farmers, repre senting about 20 men, all employ one machine and help each other until they are through, and If there ie any great difference in the time one neighbor has over another it is paid for. I know of no better plan where farms are small. The women folks exchange help also, making a kind of picnic of it,which aleo adds a social feature that needs all the encouragement that we can give it. I'. Northern Ind. In our neighborhood It Is ruleable to hire a man with the machine, and he furnishes all the handp, except what hands it takes to care for the wheat after it ls measured. We pay the machine man from i}£ to 5% cents per bushel for threshing, and the other men $1 per day. In former times when the machine used to come the hands would be scattered and not know just when to come. The preeent way of threshing they are all together when the machine comes. They all help to set the machine, and are ready to go to work much sooner, and then they are under control of the machine man and I think they all work better. Every man has his place and there is no parleying. Cyclone machines only require 7 or 8 men to run them. Some farmers object to the way they leave the straw. This ls not a neighborhood for men to take their dinners when they go to threeh. It has always been ruleable for the man that has the wheat to do the boarding. There are not many men that would like a cold dinner when working with a threshing machine. D. L. Harrison Oo. We omit a sentence occasionally from the following, as they are merely repeating what has been said by the writers above. The machine men now hire men here and there over the country and pay them by the bushel. There are hands enough to put the wheat in the sack and stack the straw, if they do not have a cyclone machine. Every farmer must take care of hig wheat after It Is in the Eack. The farmer must board all the men and feed the horses used for hauling water. They have been threshing for 4 or 4>£ cents per buehel some years and furnish all the hands. As the hands are paid by the bushel every man has his place in setting the machine, so it is only a small job to Bet the machine and get ready for work. LaBt year while threshing for us they moved the machine only about 10 or 12 feet just to make it a little handier for tbe straw men. When the machine comes tho hands are all preeent, and each one takes an interest in puehing the work. B. W. Oorydon. Bivntw. One of the moet coetly nuisances I have felt In helping around is ln bad weather. We are busy with farm work, and eay, "Well it may be dry enough to thresh by nine a'clock, so we can't take the team far from the barn, but will tinker around and mow weeds." The machine is anxious to get to running.and urge the man with wet wheat to begin. So he finally lets the whistle blow. We all drop our work, no odds how important, and rush In, Then It le not quite as dry as we thought and we sit on our wagons an hour or two till dry. I have had it cost me a perfect nuisance for six weeks ln a catchy year to pay back. It costs others the same, but it costs us all too much. If a thresher furnish his own help he can control tbem better. And many of them do not have a variety of work, aB farmers do. They would not expect to work except In fair weather. With ug we often want to break for wheat. We get some plowed before threehlng, and then wait a month and break the rest, and we expect a third more wheat on the early breaking. Ons other nuisance is that there are always some who have little hay to put up, and slip lt ln, and just as we get in good haying trim they start the machine. We most have to help, or the crowd will soon crystalize and we are out. And when we arc ready tho machine has its route fixed and its Bet of help etarted nnd we may wait till the whole neighborhood le done, and then the crowd owee ub nothing and do not care to help. They are not to blame, nearly every farmer has work ln the summer eeason that he can't afford to leave to hire out for the money. What a glorious relies It muet be to farmers to be allowed to go right into haying or corn plowing at onco after harvest and take time to put up a lot of feed, and put com in fine condition! When the machine comes to thresh his wheat he stops farmwork long enough to care for the clean wheat, and ie hie own man again. Some men who havo Bmall farme and do not handle much money, and do not have much work at home would rather work back than to pay money. These could hire to the machine men and have a eteady cash job, Some around here tried taking cold dinners. But they say that it ie not only hard fare, for thoee accustomed to coffee and warm meals, to eat a cold meal when at hard, exhausting work, but that the women say they would rather trade work with the neighbor women and get one meal at home for a crowd than to be forever fussing with cold dinners. If the weather is good this is not so bad. Our friend Joe Williams eays they rush to the family that is a good feeder. I have seen that too. But it often happens here that even poor people are as good cooks as any and set as good a taDle. With our traction engines we do not have the trouble we formerly had in setting tho machine. Our machine bands will set the machino so quick that the farmers have to hustle to keep it in wheat. The gain of 200 bushels a day spoken of by our Kansas writer would not hold good here, unless in catchy weather. Aa Mr. Beard says, where the country ls thickly Bettled we can help back better. And when we get telephones it will be more practicable still. At present in this community all threshing hands are paid by the day. And the time runs on, without regard to stopping of the machine. It would no doubt be fairer to pay all by the bushel; then in a big days threshing they would get big pay. It would average up about right, and would interest all in the success of the machine. Our postoffice motto this week is taken from Oarlyle when he was ecolding people for always being dissatisfied. "Believe that thou deeervest to be hanged (which is most likely) and thou wilt think it happiness to bs shot." —No. 175, July 15.—In threshing, somo neighborhoods take their dinners with them. Some hire a man to furnish machine, fuel, hands, board and all. Which plan has proven most satisfactory to you, and why? No. 170, July 22.—How do you can fruit? Why does so much canned fruit spoil? What vegetables are best canned? No. 177, July 29—How can the busy housekeeper find time for the club? Name some advantages and drawbacks to clubs. No. 178. Aug, 5 —If you bad ten thousand dollars to invest in a farm for 8 home, in what portion of the United States would you prefer to locate, and why? No. 179, Aug. 12—(For children under ten.) Name the books that you have of your own. What papers come to you through the Post Office this year? Of all the books and papers you have ever read, name one or two books and one or two papers that you like best. Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents will be given to let, 2d and best articles each week. Let copy be as practicable as possible and forwarded ten days before publication to Oarmel. E. H. Collins.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1899, v. 54, no. 28 (July 15) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA5428 |
Date of Original | 1899 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. LIV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JULY 15, 1899. NO. 28 'gxpzxizntz S^avlmmt. IN THRESHING TIME. let Premium.—In threehlng In this neighborhood we used to follow the machine from place to place, threehlng each job in turn, the man whose wheat was threshed furnishing the meal for all hands. As we are all email farm* ers here perhaps the machine would threeh three or four jobs in one day, and thus perhaps one or two neighbors would not have to feed the hande, but the cookB would be iu a flurry for a day or two, and knowing juet which way the machine would move, or what break might change the time of threshing, and therefore they would not know how many to cook for, or whether to cook at all; then the rushing around for hands and to get the hands together in the morning. It wae agreed that the crew eyetem was all right for the big farmer, but would not work eo well for the little farmer where so much moving was to be done. We have now had the crew for two yearg. The threshermen furnish all hands, even to tying the sacks. They have their cook wagon and tent, which le eent on to a convenient place, and the cook knowe juet what to do. The farmer takes care of his grain and foots the bill at 7 cents per bushel, and the good wife goes on in the even tenor of her way just as though the threshing were not being done, I have heard threshermen talking of certain farmers being good feeders, meaning that they set a good table, and they would ruBh things to get there; or the machinery needed cooling. But with the crew system they run steady from start to finish with no dallying around, nursing a job to get to some man's table. A thresherman without a crew cannot get work In this vicinity any more. One tried it laBt fall, and although a good thresher with good machinery he had to pull home with wheat in sight; and we were wanting it threshed badly enough too, but we waited for the crew. Olark Oo. J. W. Williams. 2d Premium. — Here in Sumner county, Kane, for eeveral years the threshers have furnished all the hands and fuel; they also board their hands, and deliver the threshed grain in the wagon. No sacks are used. The farmer hauls the fuel, UBually coal, and empties the wagon. The machine charges six cts. for wheat and three for oats. They have followed thiB plan for several years. Neither machine men or farmers would go back to the old way. They have a portable kitchen, the cook lg often the thresher's wife. Each hand furnishes his own blanket. They sleep in the sheds, or around the straw stack. One advantage to the thresher is that he always Ins experienced help, each man has his place. They will set in one-fourth the time that it used to take when they depended on voluntary help from the farmer's hands. They begin a job at once on arriving, as the help ig on hand. They often etart up and thresh a few loads in the evening, or in any little spare time. They can often start an hour earlier ln the morning. In a good season they can average 200 bushels more a day than by the other way. Some of the advantages to the farmer are, lgt. he has no help to look after, which often takes a half day or more, and lt is often that they have to Bo around and notify them. Then likely one or two will be abeent. It also takes time to Payback which we ought to be using stacking our wheat or plowing corn. 2nd. no hands to hoard, except one or two to haul the wheat 'rom the machine. In this country nearly all «e land is sowed to wheat. Many farmers have not an acre of corn. The jobs run from 'W acres to 500 acres. It is all threshed out tne "hock or stack as soon ag possible after cutting. In hauling to the granary we uee wagons with tight boxes. We have three. We the wagon by the chute from the elevator. The machine tallies the bushels or it is counted by the wagon load. Wet weather reduced our yield this season to half a crop. There are five machines within one and a half miles of this town of Rome Station. D. M. A. Rome, Kas. 3d Premium.—We have for several years belonged to a company or club of farmers combined to facilitate the work of threshing. The farms of the nine members are situated on or near a road with a distance of over three miles between those farthest apart. One machine is engaged to do all of the work beginning at one end of the line and taking the farms in regular order, so that no time ig lost in unnecessary hauling over the roads. All of the threshing is done from the shock, and tbe regular help on these farm supplies nearly all of the 20 or more men needed and also all of the teams and wagons. The men including thoee who operate the machine, are furnished dinner and supper. By a liberal exchange of help among the cooks, the work of providing for so many men ls not so burdensome. The plan has given good satisfaction to all concerned. No time is lost waiting for the machine, nor ln going from one farm to another. Worry over the uncertalnities of preparing meals is reduced to the minimum, and then there is little unneceeeary outlay of money, ae nearly all of the work is done by the regular farm force. O. P. L. Union Oo. In this neighborhood, which was originally settled by people from thesouth, where hospitality ig carried to an extreme, it has been customary from time unmemorlal for the farmer to furnish board for the threshing hands. This makes threshing time quite burdensome upon the women of the family as well as on the purse, as even with a small amount of grain, it is almost always necessary to furnish a meal for 15 or 20 hands, sometimes for 25 or 30. This takes off much of the already small profit. One never knows just when the machine will come, so they live in a state of expectant dread for days and perhaps weeks. Farmers' wives vie with each other as to which can prepare the biggest and finest dinner; then the hands, after their hot and exhausting work, partake of great quantities of rich victuals, much to the detriment of their digestive eyetem. There ought to be some way to do away with much of this trouble and expense. In some places each man provides his own lunch, and where tried thie plan hae proven very satisfactory. Lass time will be taken forthe meal, and the men will be in better condition for hard work than if satiated with so much hot and greasy food. As to threshing outfits which furnish all their own men and teams and board themselves, this has never been tried in this locality. The plan seems to work well ln the thinly populated weet, but in thickly settled communities, where neighbors can conveniently exchange work, it probably saves considerable cash expense to do so. There seems to be a growing sentiment agalnet boarding hande ln all kinds of work, and probably before many years this burden upon the farmers' wives will be greatly lessened. J. G. W. Wayne Oo. The better method of threshing will depend on the locality. In central Indiana, where farms are email, I think the old fashioned way of helping for help back the best way. A poor man can help back and eave money. But in localities where large farms predominate I think the best plan is to hire at a certain price per bushel, the thresherman to fumleh everything, and the farmer take bis grain from the machine. Where farms are large help is usually scarce and the uncertainty of the weather often makes it annoying to get it. In some neighborhoods farmers, repre senting about 20 men, all employ one machine and help each other until they are through, and If there ie any great difference in the time one neighbor has over another it is paid for. I know of no better plan where farms are small. The women folks exchange help also, making a kind of picnic of it,which aleo adds a social feature that needs all the encouragement that we can give it. I'. Northern Ind. In our neighborhood It Is ruleable to hire a man with the machine, and he furnishes all the handp, except what hands it takes to care for the wheat after it ls measured. We pay the machine man from i}£ to 5% cents per bushel for threshing, and the other men $1 per day. In former times when the machine used to come the hands would be scattered and not know just when to come. The preeent way of threshing they are all together when the machine comes. They all help to set the machine, and are ready to go to work much sooner, and then they are under control of the machine man and I think they all work better. Every man has his place and there is no parleying. Cyclone machines only require 7 or 8 men to run them. Some farmers object to the way they leave the straw. This ls not a neighborhood for men to take their dinners when they go to threeh. It has always been ruleable for the man that has the wheat to do the boarding. There are not many men that would like a cold dinner when working with a threshing machine. D. L. Harrison Oo. We omit a sentence occasionally from the following, as they are merely repeating what has been said by the writers above. The machine men now hire men here and there over the country and pay them by the bushel. There are hands enough to put the wheat in the sack and stack the straw, if they do not have a cyclone machine. Every farmer must take care of hig wheat after It Is in the Eack. The farmer must board all the men and feed the horses used for hauling water. They have been threshing for 4 or 4>£ cents per buehel some years and furnish all the hands. As the hands are paid by the bushel every man has his place in setting the machine, so it is only a small job to Bet the machine and get ready for work. LaBt year while threshing for us they moved the machine only about 10 or 12 feet just to make it a little handier for tbe straw men. When the machine comes tho hands are all preeent, and each one takes an interest in puehing the work. B. W. Oorydon. Bivntw. One of the moet coetly nuisances I have felt In helping around is ln bad weather. We are busy with farm work, and eay, "Well it may be dry enough to thresh by nine a'clock, so we can't take the team far from the barn, but will tinker around and mow weeds." The machine is anxious to get to running.and urge the man with wet wheat to begin. So he finally lets the whistle blow. We all drop our work, no odds how important, and rush In, Then It le not quite as dry as we thought and we sit on our wagons an hour or two till dry. I have had it cost me a perfect nuisance for six weeks ln a catchy year to pay back. It costs others the same, but it costs us all too much. If a thresher furnish his own help he can control tbem better. And many of them do not have a variety of work, aB farmers do. They would not expect to work except In fair weather. With ug we often want to break for wheat. We get some plowed before threehlng, and then wait a month and break the rest, and we expect a third more wheat on the early breaking. Ons other nuisance is that there are always some who have little hay to put up, and slip lt ln, and just as we get in good haying trim they start the machine. We most have to help, or the crowd will soon crystalize and we are out. And when we arc ready tho machine has its route fixed and its Bet of help etarted nnd we may wait till the whole neighborhood le done, and then the crowd owee ub nothing and do not care to help. They are not to blame, nearly every farmer has work ln the summer eeason that he can't afford to leave to hire out for the money. What a glorious relies It muet be to farmers to be allowed to go right into haying or corn plowing at onco after harvest and take time to put up a lot of feed, and put com in fine condition! When the machine comes to thresh his wheat he stops farmwork long enough to care for the clean wheat, and ie hie own man again. Some men who havo Bmall farme and do not handle much money, and do not have much work at home would rather work back than to pay money. These could hire to the machine men and have a eteady cash job, Some around here tried taking cold dinners. But they say that it ie not only hard fare, for thoee accustomed to coffee and warm meals, to eat a cold meal when at hard, exhausting work, but that the women say they would rather trade work with the neighbor women and get one meal at home for a crowd than to be forever fussing with cold dinners. If the weather is good this is not so bad. Our friend Joe Williams eays they rush to the family that is a good feeder. I have seen that too. But it often happens here that even poor people are as good cooks as any and set as good a taDle. With our traction engines we do not have the trouble we formerly had in setting tho machine. Our machine bands will set the machino so quick that the farmers have to hustle to keep it in wheat. The gain of 200 bushels a day spoken of by our Kansas writer would not hold good here, unless in catchy weather. Aa Mr. Beard says, where the country ls thickly Bettled we can help back better. And when we get telephones it will be more practicable still. At present in this community all threshing hands are paid by the day. And the time runs on, without regard to stopping of the machine. It would no doubt be fairer to pay all by the bushel; then in a big days threshing they would get big pay. It would average up about right, and would interest all in the success of the machine. Our postoffice motto this week is taken from Oarlyle when he was ecolding people for always being dissatisfied. "Believe that thou deeervest to be hanged (which is most likely) and thou wilt think it happiness to bs shot." —No. 175, July 15.—In threshing, somo neighborhoods take their dinners with them. Some hire a man to furnish machine, fuel, hands, board and all. Which plan has proven most satisfactory to you, and why? No. 170, July 22.—How do you can fruit? Why does so much canned fruit spoil? What vegetables are best canned? No. 177, July 29—How can the busy housekeeper find time for the club? Name some advantages and drawbacks to clubs. No. 178. Aug, 5 —If you bad ten thousand dollars to invest in a farm for 8 home, in what portion of the United States would you prefer to locate, and why? No. 179, Aug. 12—(For children under ten.) Name the books that you have of your own. What papers come to you through the Post Office this year? Of all the books and papers you have ever read, name one or two books and one or two papers that you like best. Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents will be given to let, 2d and best articles each week. Let copy be as practicable as possible and forwarded ten days before publication to Oarmel. E. H. Collins. |
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