The Evening Times

FARMERS ARE WORKING FAST

Take Advantage of Present Good Weather Conditions and Are Pushing Ahead Rapidly.

According to well known farmers who were in the city today, and men who have been over this part of the country in the past week, if the weather will continue clear for the next week, all of the grain will be threshed.

Up to the present time a lot of grain in some sections has not been gotten in, owing to the long stretch of wet weather in the latter part of September and the first week in October. At the present time nearly every threshing outfit in the country is being used.

The lack of harvest hands has necessarily forced the farmers into co-operation and as soon as work on one farm has been completed the outfit moves on to the next one, the neighbors helping each other.

Although some fall plowing has been done, the necessity of helping each other with threshing has compelled the farmers to put off much of their fall breaking of the soil.

The frost also retards the plowing.

Local railroad men say that the wheat is being shipped out of the country in large quantities, Minneapolis and Duluth about breaking even on the shipments from this section.