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 l . 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 7 l ■ ' "'SU >, / : a ■ Peoria Drill l i «aréwia - M 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. >j i Jr We I '■it ? 1 liEmerson Disc Plows I 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. v a The Emerson Zl 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. I \ Grangeville Implement Co., Ltd. HITCH TO THE BEST :< § r* it 3 a Hy die °hl 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. in satis 1 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 j* ' ! 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 * n K we with j 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 w e 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 "Do 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. 131 f 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. 1.3-4 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 T 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 We 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. i Another Chapter to Grangeville's Late Tragedy - 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 j 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 ! 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. I 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. | 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 ii i "I'd I „((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. 13 4