Widow Crow is farming 3,000 acres. She averaged nine sacks to the acre, amounting to about 2,000 tons. She sold at over £6 a ton and bauked £12,000 for her crop. She haa takon a partner for convenience and that gives her a. superintendent in the field ; but sho remains the boss, bank and brain of the enterprise. She owns one combined harvester, which will cut^ thresh and sack thirty acres a day. When her crop was ready for the sickle she started her machine, hired four more,- and the five went marching around her golden fields— 2o men and 120 howes cutting, threshing and sacking 16ft. acres of wheat each day. It kept five men busy sowing up tho sacks of grain as they came froni the separator ; five drove each a 24-horso team, five tended each a sickle, and the other five attended each to a separator. In a minute tlje standing grain is in the sack ready for transportation.— Travel 1 Correfcp'(sndent : Los Anyeht Eps press.
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Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 354, 16 August 1890, Page 8
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