The only elevators we had at home were those on the McCormick Deering Model 61 thrasher /.combine. We were never able to grow more than 12 acres of winter wheat and less than that of spring oats. The normal procedure was to line the gap under the tailgate with burlap bags on Dad.s '47 Ford pick up, then flow the wheat by gravity from the high hopper on the combine into the truck box. Each load was taken directly to Haxton's grain mill, a distance of less than a mile from home. Once there, the grain was sampled for moisture and onion (which we usually had) and priced accordingly. Then we shoveled the load off into a catch chute in the side of the mill building. The best price I remember was $2.12 per bushel with price support. More commonly we were paid $1.60-$1.80 per bushel. That operation probably would not even qualify as a hobby farm today, but it was good activity for growing boys. Keep in mind that we were working with a Farmall Regular, an unstyled John Deere L, a two bottom little genius plow, and about a six or eight foot four section disk with a plank float behind. The only nearly new implement we had was a 10 foot spring tooth weed hog drag. That line up of equipment was not too bad actually, considering that when Mom and Dad moved from the city he started with a work horse to clear brush from the land. Dad was a good horseman as that is what he used daily on his day job, house to house milk delivery in the city. I call that a day job, but they actually started work at 2 AM. The next step was a Fordson tractor before the big step up to the Regular, on steel with rubber fronts.. Some of the bigger full time farms actually had nice new Farmall M's. How awesome they were.
Charlie V.