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TWENTY-FOUR ACRES IN 2 DAYS
From First Stroke to Last Seed Was Record Made on McCollum Farm
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 19 May 1921]
To attack a twenty-four acre field at 10 o’clock on Monday morning and have it seeded by six o’clock on Tuesday night was a feat performed on the farm of Charles McCollum, River Road, west of Welland, this week. We hear of such things in the Canadian West some times, but we believe the incident we have cited is a new one so far as Welland County agriculture is concerned.
Two weeks ago today, Mr. McCollum lost his right arm when it was caught in the cogs of the grinder. His fine farm lost its farmer temporarily at least. Neighbors came to the rescue this week to solve his great problem of spring seeding. “It’s better to have good neighbors than two arms,” said Mr. McCollum philosophically to the Tribune-Telegraph yesterday.
The field sown to oats was cornland of as excellent a soil as Welland County can boast. Four tractors racked it fore and aft with double discs. Then it was gone over with a culti-packer that made the field soft, fine-ground and pliable as an onion bed. After this came two teams with drills and the job was complete.
The “neighbors” referred to by Mr. McCollum were Norris Bartlett, Scott Leidy, Walter and Wm. Cosby.
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