Iowa Old Press
Sioux County Herald
August 6, 1874
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Reeves Bros. are changing their grain warehouse at Seney to an elevator.
VanSickel started teams and machinery on Tuesday for Lyon Co. to take off
his 300 acres of wheat up there.
Mr. Chas. Terwilliger about two miles east of town, cut 43 acres of wheat in
2 ¼ days with an Esterly reaper. Who can beat it?
Three Indians who had been harvesting down the Floyd, dropped into Amsden’s
store one day this week, and after a careful examination of his goods bought
three cambric handkerchiefs. They went away happy.
Would not many of our farmers be better off were they to farm on a smaller
scale than what they are now attempting? A large acreage of grain looks
well, to be sure, but when it has to be taken off with high priced machinery
and high priced labor, the profits are necessarily small. We know several
farmers who will realize more actual advantage from twenty acres of wheat,
sown by hand and taken off with an old fashioned cradle, than others who
will harvest upward of a hundred acres.---Sentinel.