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Show Good Crop For ' Lakefork Farmers. Robert Marshal's threshing crew has finished -work for the season and the outfit was pulled in last week. Most of Mr- Marshal's work this season was done on the Lake Fork and in the Dry Gulch region. In this prosperous prosper-ous and productive section there was threshed altogether 25,000 bushels of wheat and oats bv weight at 40 pounds to the bushel for onts and 00 pounds for wheat, or TO,500 bushels by measure. It is supposed that the light weight of the grain was due to the lateness of the sowing. 325 bushels of lucerne seed also Was threshed by Mi-Marshal. Mi-Marshal. He says that the best grain threshed in that section was on the north side of the Lake Fork. Mr Marshal had the lliachine out two a rid a half months; 1,000 to 1,200 bushels was considered con-sidered a good day's run when everything was going well |