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IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS.
VOL. 23, NO. 17
ORANGEVILLE.
IDAHO COUNTY, IDAHO. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 190 S
$2.00 PER YEAR
The Combine-Questions Answered!
by a Practical Man
The importance of the combined
harvester as an up-to-date method
uf handling crops has long been
recognized in other sections of the
country, especially in California,
but until this season there has
been no combine tried on Camas
Prairie. This summer Bales &
Jones bought oue machine and
leased another, and worked both
machines through the harvest, un
der circumstances they should
give a all-around basis for judg
ing the merits of this kind of
machine and comparing its work
with the former methods of hand
ling grain. With a view to ascer
taining the results of the harvest
work in a practical way the Free
Press has submitted the follow
ing questions to Tora W. Rales,
the president of the Bales-Jones
Co. :
I. What started Bales & Jones
on the combine subject and it\duc
ed them to invest their money in
one combine and lease another?
2 What has been your experi
ence with the machines during
the harvest and how are you
satisfied with them?
3 What is the actual cost per
acre for handling grain with a
combine as compared with the
other methods, viz:
Rinding and Threshing.
lleadiug and Threshing.
4 How does the saving on
grain compare? Does the combine
waste as much or more grain in
the field?
5 Horses: Is the combine
harder on horses?
6 Labor: How does the cost
of labor compare?
7 Expenses: What is the pro
portion of expense per acre?
8 Time: What is the saving
in time?
!• Mules: How do mules cora
pare with horses for work on com
bines? ,
10 How does work with the
combine compare with the old
method for keeping the land clean?
11 How can the small ranch
er lieuefit from the combine ma
chine?
12 What size machine is best
for work on Camas Prairie?
13 In general, do you consider
the combined harvester a practical
method of handling the grain in
this section of the country?
Mr. Bales, when submitted these
questions by a Free Press repre
sentative, did not attempt to an
swer them categorically, but ex
pressed himself as follows:
For the past three or four years
we have experienced, in com
mon with other ranchers in this
section of the country, consider
able difficulty in securing satis
IDISC SHOE DRILLS
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The drill we are offering to the ranchers is
i built on advanced and practical ideas. It is not
an experiment and has many firm friends here on
the Prairie who will tell you to buy no other. A
disc drill is what you want and
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is the one. Disc simply cuts the way, the shoe
forms the furrow and deposits the grain,
guarantee the device will deposit all the grain in
the furrpw and cover perfectly. Operates on
hard land, soft land, wet land or trashy land.
It's the drill for you.
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liEmerson Disc Plows
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Here is another tried and tested, the Emerson
disc plows, double and tripple. Cuts furrow six
teen to twenty-four inches wide. Simple adjust
ments, oil tight bearings, light running, satisfac
tory giving. The disc plow is the hard ground
plow. The harder the ground the better the work.
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The Emerson
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will give good results on hard, soft, dry, wet, gumbo,
sandy or almost any soil, however. Double the
work at half the expense. The Emerson plow is
the plow with the Idaho county reputation behind
it. Ask the man across the road from you why he
is "stuck" on his Emerson.
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HITCH TO THE BEST
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method of harvesting we figured it
cost us 83.50 to 84.00 per acre,
without counting anything for the
use of the horses or the board of
the crew. Counting all these
items it has cost us, for three or
four years previous to this season,
not less than 83.50 to 84.00 per
acre to get in our crop.
The work we have mentioned
was done on what we term our
"Edward's Ranch.' We then
moved the new machine to our
Home Ranch into Fall Grain,
which averaged 424 bushels per
acre; the machine still maintained
the average of 35 acres per day, at
a cost of 70 ceiits per acre, ex
elusive of the use of the horses and
board of the crew. As we used I
our own horses and boarded our
own men the net cost to us was j
uot more than 81 00 per acre.
factory and reliable labor; with „
heavy crop on hand a dearth of
labor would expose us to big loss,
especially if weather conditions
should turn our bed. The prob
lem was to protect ourselves,' and
we figured that the combined
harvester, if practicable, offered
the solution of our difficulties.
With approximately 3000 acres of
grain to take care of the subject
was big enough to induce
figuring.
Our investigations convinced
that the combined harvester
the machine for this section of the
country; we purchased one machine
and leased another, believing that
we had work enough for two. The
hail-storms damaged our crops to
such an extent that we might have
got along with oue, but by taking
up the work of several ranchers in
our vicinity we got enough work
for two machines to get a good
try-out.
The leased machine
that had heeu
close
us
was
was one
used the previous
season, had been rebuilt, but still
as a second-hand machine,
the start it did not work
factorily, but afterwards it got into
good running order and its work
compared favorably with that of
the uew machine.
As to the actual cost of harvest
ing a crop with a combined harvest
er, we will enufiue ourselves to the
work of the uew machine, which
we purchased and own, and which
we ran as our own machine. We
started this machine on 280 acres
of barley and finished the field in
8 days, an average of 35 acres per
(lay, at a cost of 81.00 per acre,
l his includes the work of 27 horses,
at a cost of fifty cents per day per
head, the wages of five men to run ]
the machine, the salaries of
cook and a roustabout and the
board of the crew.
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Oui honest opinion is that we j
can save from 83.00 to 85.00 per
acre with our own combine, over
e work of any binder or station-!
ary rig we have ever put into the j
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111 regard to waste of grain we !
relieve that the combine is a big ;
saver. One reason is that every
head that strikes the draper of the |
combine header goes into the |
sacks or is blown into the straw.
If jour separator man is wasting
J.our grain you can detect it at any
time and apply the proper remedy, j
Several conservative ranchers of :
the prairie have followed the
machine around and their opinion j
is that it saves from five to eight 1
bushels per acre more than the !
old-style machines working on
ranches right around us. j
Ilailed-out wheat we worked one 1
and one-half days at a cost of 1
8 In.00 and got 400 bushels of |
wheat. On hailed-out barlev
cut one-hundred acres in two
at a cost of 800.00, and got 420 j
sacks. On this barley alone we
saved 8300.00 by having a combine, j a
which we could not have saved by i
any other method of harvesting,
We do not believe that any bind
er or header could pick up down !
grain and short grain the way
this combine did. I he header of
this combine can be lowered as low
as any mowing machine or raised
as high as any header built.
one question that has not been
asked is the cost of repairs: On
practically 30 days work our re
pairs on the new machine have
been limited to one Jaeon's staff
broken, cost 82.20, and 10 feet of
chain, cost 81.30, a total of 83.50,
and the loss of time on these ac
counts has been practically noth
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country. '
So far as any ill effecte on horses
or mules from working on a com
bine, we had live head of three
year-old muies and three or four
broodmares, 15 to eighteen years
old; when animals of that class
will stand the work it certainly is
not hard work for a good solid
work horse. As a matter of fact
all of our horses and mules came
through the harvest is good shape
and we would just as soon have
our stock work on a combine as
any other form of farm work.
Concerning the relative merits
of mules and horses for this class
every comparison is in favor of the
mule. They will stand the work
better, they will stand more
"grief," will worry and fret less
and will wind up a days work in
better shape than any horses.
I You can bunch 25 or 30 head of !
mules without any danger of
j kicking or jumping; they
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As regards (o horses,
worked 27 horse sand mules on a 32
horse machine, and had all the
power we needed. We understand
these machines are worked
] 32 horses in the lower
not :
are
1 so excitable or nervous, are better
j luggers and they don't get leg
weary from thirty or fourty days
work. We took our mules out of
the harvest field and put them
j right on to summer fallow and
! they are in better shape uow than
! when the harvest started. These
; combines will be a great boost for
the mule industry.
| Now, as to keeping the land
| clean, a very important question:
The combined harvester will take
up more foul seed from the ground
than any header, for the simple
j reason that every thing that goes
: through the combine goes through
a cleaner and the foul seed goes
j into a sack. With a header the
1 foul seed is strewn from the header
! to the header-box to the stack,
and thereby a great proportion of
j the foul seed gets back on the
1 land again. With the combine
1 when the foul seed leaves the
| ground it is intirely eliminated,
days'combine are most satisfactory;
j you need a crew of five men, and
good men, and when you once get
j a crew you have them for the
i season, and .you have only five
good men to look after rather than
25 or 30 men of different grades
! and classes.
compared to other harvest work;
each man has his own work to do
and only one man of the crew has
any really heavy work. We ran
through the entire season without
changing a man op our crew,
It's easier to get five good men
that you can depend upon than it
is to get twenty to twenty-five
thirty men of all kinds and habits;
every raucher knows how hard it
is to secure a big crew that can be
depended on to stay with him and
do good work.
In the harvest season the farmer
has always had to lose a lot of
time hunting up a crew of men
and replacing men who would
when twenty-five or thirty
j of these combines are working ou
' the prairie there will be plenty of
good men to handle them coming
to the machine for work, instead
of the farmer hunting all over the
country for any kind of men he
could get.
Your question as to the benefits
of a combine for the small ranch
er is a good one. We figure you
mean a man farming about 160
acres. One or two, or more
ranchers with this amount of land
could get together and by a
machine, and with their own
horses and their own labor can
handle their crops at a big saving,
as the price of a good machine is
less than that of a stationary rig.
every rancher requires so many
horses for his ordinary work
through the year and this same
number of horses will do his
farming with a harvester. By
! Lhis method they will be indepen
dent of fluctuating labor con
The labor conditions with a
quit;
Their work is easy
in
: ditions.
The size of a machine for practi
cal, all-around work, should not
be less than 18 feet; That is the
size of the machine we used and
we would not care for anything!
smaller. There is an economical
reason for this, as the hie machine
requires less power and labor for
the work it does than the small
er ones, and makes a bigger
average for the same number of
horses and men.
The questiou of time is another
important one; when your grain is
ready you want to get it out of
the field and under cover just as
quick as possible. A day or two
of bad weather may mean a big'
money loss. Oue thing with
the combine is, that when you
have covered your 35 acres cleaned
up and ready to go to market,
You can save time with a machine
and thereby save money.
As to your financial question,
we consider the combined
method of
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harvester a practical
handling the grain in this section,"
perhaps the best answer to that is
the fact that we intend to buy
another new machine next year,
probably a 20-foot cut. We be
lieve that every combine that
comes on the Prairie will have an
effect in increasing the value of
the land, by making it possible to
make more money oft of every
acre farmed.
There are several other points
that may be consu ered, such as
using a less number of horses with
a gasoline engine to run your
separator, comparisons of climate
and climatic effects between Camas
Prairie and the lower countries,
etc., hut aside from this I think
we have gone into the subject
prêt tv thoroughly. However, we
are always willing to give our
neighboring ranchers the benefit of
our experience, and will be glad to
answer any other questions that
you or they may see fit to ask.
Dr. King the eye specialist will
be in Orangeville again in Oct.
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Land script for sale lowest prices
address R. E. Wilson, Cambridge,
10-7
Don't be afraid to give Chamber
Iain's Cough remedy to your child
ren. It contaius no opium or
other harmful drug. It always
cures. For sale by J. J. Pulse,
Idaho.
Firstclass work and good treat
ment at Hogan & Abrahamson
barber shop.
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Alexander»Freiden rich Co.
Fall Opening Sale
to continue to
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
HE announcement of our Fall Opening Sale was received with enthusiasm
It has sent a thrill through
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by the people of Orangeville and vicinity,
the bargain appreciating public and our stoic is the talk, of the entire
always try to merit the confidence of
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country for miles around.
the buying public, hut seeing is believing and we want you to see
the marvelous bargains in this our Fall Opening Sde. Remember this sale closes
Saturday Night, October 3,
!>c sure and lay in your Fall supply of
New bargains every day of the sale,
merchandise during this money saving Sale.
Alexander"Freidenrich Co.
Enlarges Plant
White people always* patronize
white industry, especially is this!
true when it is to their advantage. !
Mr. Schroeder, our local laundry
man, is the party we have in view
as we write this article. He has
built up an excellent laundry trade
in this city aud as a result has en
larged his plant by an addition to
the building 16x36 feet and also
placed several modern laundry
machines in the plant. Schroeder
does fine work and calls and de
livers. Try a white man's laund
ry next time.
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Another Chapter to Grangeville's
Late Tragedy
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The case of State of Idaho vs
Joe Sorrow, charged with murder
in the first degree, has been on
trial since Friday of last week and
"ill probably go to jury late this
evening. All the evidence has
been submitted and the attorneys
' will make their aiguments this
j afternoon.
About 24 witnesses were intro-I
duced by the statt- anil the defense
placed close onto a dozen on the
stand. T he state has made strong
case, the testimony being practical
ly the same as the preliminary
disclosed but has been strengthen
County Atty. Oriflith has been
assisted by Att Reese Hattabaugh
and the state has made a strong
case against the defendant.
ed.
The defence aimed to prove that
young Williams was the one to
strike the first blow and officer
Williams tired the first three or
four shots and wounded Morrow
w ho shot in self defense.
A Compliment.
-d from
The following is
the "Blaz-r,"
"PI
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ifficial pulili
of the Western Union Kite
thc
catioi
Insurance Co., a company with a
number of stockholders and many
policy holders in this country. The
editor of the paper is Boyd C. Bar
rington, a line gentl.an to meet
laud a first class man who made
many friends in this city during
the several months he spent with
; us last spring in the interests of
the company.
"On the gentle undulating
prairie in (lie neighborhood of
j ( irangeville, Idaho, our valiant and
progressive representative, W. A.
Patterson, is making a record for
! himself by creating a strong
j enthusiastic Western l uion Kite
constituency,
i Mr. Patterson has the knack
I forming many friends and
taining their friendship,
recently provided many
citizeus of Idaho county with the
protection that Western Union
Life Insurance Policies alone can
give. He swears by the Camas
Prairie country, and says that the
! people of Camas Prairie
most appreciative,
re
lie has
of the
t he
are
broad-minded
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GIBSON & ALLEN
JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS
Watch Repairing
Edison Phonographs
; A tty. Scales fought desperately
for t he defendant and has conduct
ed the case in a masterly manner,
T he plan of defence was excellent
and from what looked like a hope
less situation he may succeed in
! getting his client off with life ini
prisonment and thus save him
: from the extreme penalty,
The following
jury and will have the fate of Joe
Sorrow in their hands before
1 another twelve hours have passed,
.1 8 . Furzier, Kamiah, sawmill
man; J. K Wren, Winona, ranch
er; ('. W. Ellenson, Kamiah,
blacksmith; John Williamson,
Denver, rancher; K. M. Herring,
Tahoe, rancher; Dave Ray,
Salmon river, rancher; Rudolph
Street, Denver, harvest hand;
A. Y. Ball, Orangeville, auction
eer; tieo. W. Marshall,
1 ville rancher;
Orangeville,
' nan Orangeville,
Price Keener,
men are on the
Orange
Wisdom,
rancher; Fluid Can
rancher;
Joseph, liar vest er.
T. W.
; people it has been his good fortune
We congratulate Mr.
Patterson upon the superlative re
meet.
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suits In-has brought about in his
pleasingly presistent manner. We
a wonderful
predict
l»»'g«> for Mr. Patterson, and vouch
I safe the information that he will
: secure one hundred applications
j between now and the close of the
| We should have more men
j ''ku Patterson.
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I The registration of voters is not
! going on as rapidly as is desired
| lU1( | p ; H m-ged upon all who are
eligible
J awl not await the last day when the
j registers will have all they can do.
('|,,. following ate the (daces of
registration in the various Grange
villi- precincts. The offices will be
every Saturday.
Precinct No. 1—Judge Hall's
fall
cum
! Ilegistor Now
vote to register early
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„((lee.
Precinct No. 2—Post office.
Precinct No. 3 Gibson & Allen's.
Precinct No. 4—Inland Abstract
Office.
Hogan & Ahruhamsou, the new
b,trbering firm.
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