| Original caption reads: "Photographs I-2958-DD to I-2962-DD, inclusive. Fourth of Wyoming and Montana Basin combine series. See first for general description. These pictures show No.61 combine operated by Farmall-A in 16-acre field of Great Northern beans on 110-acre farm of Ralph Lyda, Route 1, Powell, Wyoming. The outfit is owned by T.A. Wilder, a neighbor, also of Route 1, Powell, Wyoming. Mr. Wilder operates a 200-acre farm and had 80 acres in beans, 12 acres in beets, 25 acres in alfalfa, 7 acres in corn and 21 acres in barley (nurse crop, 53 bushels to the acre). Mr. Wilder owns two No.61's, one purchased September 1, 1940, and the other which is operated by Caterpillar he bought last year. Mr. Wilder does a lot of custom work. He harvester about 500 acres of beans with the two outfits. He charges $3 an acre and covers some 16 acres a day with each outfit. There is a straw buncher on each combine, the bean straw being used for feed and bedding. After the bean crop Mr. Wilder grows radishes and said he makes $10 per acre therefrom. From his bean crop, he said, he got from 1500 to 2500 pounds an acre. Mr. Lyda said the field shown was producing 1800 pounds to the acre. Mr. Lyda had 45 acres in beans, 10 acres of which were pintos. he also had 25 acres in sweet clover from which he harvested a seed crop, 11 acres in beets and 10 acres in grain. In photograph I-2934-DD are shown left to right Mr. Lyda, Mr. Wilder's combine operator; John Carlson Jr., Bridgeport, Nebraska; Mr. Wilder and M.W. Jones, sales promotion, Billings branch. Paul L. Hanson, Route 1, Powell, Wyoming, is also shown at tractor wheel in several of the pictures." |
