Resides the ordinary harvesters in use
throughout the country they have a new
machine called the Pacific Harvester
which cuts, threshes, cleans aud sacks
the wheat at the same time, harvesting
in this wa' 40 acres a day. I saw one
of these machines at work. It was
drawn by 16 horses, and was quite a
novel sight to a "down Easter."
Threshing wheat as soon as cut will
sound strange to readers of the Gold
Lkaf in this part of the country, but
they must bear iu mind that such a
tiling is rendered possible only by the
peculiar climate of California. Its ex
treme dryness and the absence of rain
allowing the grain to thoroughly ma
ture and harden in the field accounts
for it. It would not seem necessary
for any farmer to have more than one
such harvester as the kind I have just
mentioned, yet some are obliged to
have more iu order to harvest their
crops. We passed an immense farm or
"ranche" as they are called out West,
that had this year 20,000 acres in
wheat.
