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A Dakota Threshing Outfit.
It is probable that few Eastern people realize the extent of a Dakota threshing outfit, says the Dawson Standard, as they are seen all over the broad prairie. A Standard representative recently visited the farm of E. H. Sharp, where the Darling Bros., were doing his threshing. This outfit is only one of a dozen or more now running in the neighborhood, and is selected as an illustration only on account of the writer's familiarity with the details of its management. The outfit consists of a 14-horse traction engine and 40-inch separator with 36-inch cylinder. This firm are contracting this season to thresh the grain from the shock, and furnish all the men and teams to get the grain to the machine, thresh it and put it into wagon boxes of sacks. The crew consists of 29 men and six teams, men being fed in a large dining or cooking car mounted on trucks, and which follow the machine wherever it goes. Besides their threshing rig, this firm carry with them a portable feed mill, and when the weather is such that they are unable to thresh, they grind feed for such as bring them grists. Their daily expenses are in the neighborhood of $60, and their earnings when the weather is fair from $140 to $180 per day ---- 1,200 to 1,500 bushels of wheat being a fair day's work under favorable conditions.
[SOURCE: Faulk County Record, Thursday, October 7, 1892, Page 2 - Sub. by Harold Way]

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