Show threshing opens I 1 in n county with low yield for the first time in the history of morgan county threshing was started in july and two weeks weeks earlier than was ever known before so T 1 I R bates our local thre informs us and his information comes from our oldest pioneers the first threshing done was at the home of ross carter porter carter and lester white porterville it was wheat cut bound and sacked one week prior and an d all the work accomplished july 1617 16 17 the best yield is reported as about 22 bushel per acre which shows show s a decrease or ease in yield of nearly 50 per cent under a year ago as at that time it averaged around 50 bushel per acre the first barley threshed this year averaged about 40 bushel per acre which last year run around 80 bushel per acre the low yield this year on ground mr bates informs us is beyond doubt due to the unusually hot weather and lack of usual light showers the field grain on irrigated land it is will average better in yield but will not be u up to the average threshing will start on these arcs crops in another week and this too will break the record in bein being earlier and will break the record also in being thres tied in july and ahead of weber county which is some or more feet lower than morgan county |