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Show IT PAYS TO FARM. Washington Man Receives $35,605 for His Wheat Crop. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Nov. 20. The largest check ever iyued in this county for one sale of wheat was drawn by the Puget Sound Wrarehous?e company com-pany to George Drumheller to the amount of 535,095.35 for approximately 45,000 bushels of wheat produced from about 1700 acres of land near Touchet, Wash., averaging twenty-eight bushels an acre. Mr. Drumheller this year had nearly S0.000 bushels of wheat, and expected to produce 100.000. but his Franklin county land did not yield as heavily as he expected. He farms 10,000 acres, 5000 each year In different parts of this county. He Is probably the largest wheat grower In the county who growB his wheat on land owned by one company. com-pany. This year he nae sold his crop in four lots, receiving from sixty-eight cents to eighty-one and one-half centtj, averaging averag-ing the poaeon through at seventy-five cents a bushel. In July, when grain was at the low mark, he disposed of 20.000 bushels to pay harvesting expenses ex-penses alone, but next year hopes to dispose of hlo crop all at ono time. |