UTIH COUNTY CROP SURPRISES PEOPLE
PALOUSE REPUBLIC TELLS OF FINE PROSPECTS AND HARVEST WORK BEGUN
A. J. Webster of the grain firm of Webster & Lamphere, visited up-river points Wednesday, and states that many of the farmers in the Kennedy Ford neighborhood are cutting their grain and that from the number of shocks, he would predict that much of the grain will yield 35 bushels or better to the acre.
The binders are running in a number of fields of forty-fold near Palouse, the warm weather of the past week ripening the grain rapidly. There is no question that the yield of fall wheat will be up to average, or perhaps better. The spring grain, especially that sown late, will be short, although much of it would yield a fair crop if rain were to come now.
At the present time there is a scarcity of men for harvest work, but it is believed that by the time the harvest is in full, it will have come in from Montana, Alberta, and other short crop districts to relieve the shortage. The wages are a trifle higher than last year, many paying $4.50 for shockers.
Says Crops Look Good.
J. J. Johnson, pioneer of the Harvard district, and his son, J. B. Johnson, were in Palouse, Tuesday morning on their way to Moscow. 