Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-05 | Page 5 | Using Goats to Thresh Beans on Colorado Farms

Using Goats to Thresh Beans on Colorado Farms DENVER, Colo., Dec. 5. In Conejos county, Colorado, goats havo been put to work threshing pinto beans. The chairman of the Conejos county threshing committee told ot this method meth-od In a letter to the state headquarters for the food administration located here. tf Goats are admirable adapted to threshing beans according to tho head of the threshing division of the food administration for the state, because ot their light weight. Horses are too heavy. Their hoofs would crush the beans. The goats, howevor, do the work without damaging them.