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Show 1 BIG FARM WITH A CROP OF 30,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT AND 15,000 ACRES IN CORN Thirty thousand bushels of wheat afc In storape waiting for a big "war prico" and wheat 51 17 on the I Kansas City market recently. Fif teen thousand acres of corn, safe from damapre. and one ot the finest crops that ever grew In Missouri. And corn over 7 3 cents a bushel on the Kansas City market recently, and no telling what it will go to. This condition prevails at the great Rankin farm near Tarklo, Mo. D. A. Rankin, son of John A. Rankin and grandson of the late David Rankin. e now Missouri's greatest farmer. "Not an acre of the big farm hae been sold." said D A. Rankin the grandson. "Before my grandfather died he placed the whole of the farm, 3,500 acres, into a corporation known as the Rankin Farms. My uncle. W. F. Rankin. IS president, and my father. John A Rankin vice president. I am in the office at Tarklo and take care of the books at the far in. With the exception of 5,500 acres of grass land across the line in Kansas, which is lensed, we run the farm ourselves. It takes from 4 00 to 500 men to do the work and of course, at. harvest time a great many more. There were 15.000 acres of corn on the farm, and I don t believe I ever saw a better crop. Beforo my grandfather died he spent thousands thou-sands of dollars ditching the bottom bot-tom lands of the tarm and now it is among the richest in the West and certainly grew a wonder of a corn Crop this ear. large part of our wheat crop has been sold at prices that average, better than SO cents, but twenty-two carloads, about 35,000 bushels, have been placed in storage. We arc go-Inj?- to sec what the price can co to on account of the war in Europe. The stock on the farm at present far below the usual amount. Generally Gen-erally from 5,000 to 6,000 head arc sold each year. We recently bought 2,000 calves and will buy much more stock soon. The Rankin farms will not be divided for many years." |
