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Show WHEAT YIELD ABOUT ROCKLAND IS HEAVY noOKfJtKh. Ida.. Aug. Threshing machines In the valley have been kept dec' 'v huy during th past week. A spit vlelq of grain I reported by itnoel'tf the farmers. Grain that ws seeoed on stubble la yielding from twelve lo twnty-flve buehels per acre, while sin thai haa been planted according ta moat approved methods Is going (rom thirty 10 slt.v niejbsl r acre. Tues-dsv Tues-dsv the Walker esmhtne harvester ee. tabltehed a new record lap harvesting In nockland vaJIsv. Twelve hundred bushels bush-els of wheat was cut. threahed and sacked thai. day. and tha work waa done by feur men and twenty-four horeee. Tea field contain 11X0 acres and averaged almost forty bushels ta the aero. The anverasneat surveyors - whs neve been eemred near Moonshine for tha past week spent a few days In Rockland, en route ta Sand Hollow, where they will spend some time surveying government lend In that eectlon. .There are twenty-four twenty-four men In the party. |