Atkinson Has Bluegrass Seed Plant
Holt county's newest industry is the Coxbill Seed company's
bluegrass threshing and cleaning plant at Atkinson, which has
been ruhning to capacity handling its share of the 1950 bluegrass
seed crop that has been harvested in this vicinity.
After the first stage of threshing and cleaning, the seed goes
next into an old flour mill reel, which Earl Coxbill. owner, has
converted to do a very efficient job of separating the coarse hay
from the bluegrass seed. One end of the reel is shown in the center
of photograph (above).
In a corner of the plant is the big 4-screen cleaning mill,
which handles final process of separating hay and foreign matter
from bluegrass seed.
I
Mr. Coxbill is shown examining a bag of
mighty fine bluegrass seed.
! —Photographs and story courtesy The Atkinson
I Graphic.
ATKINSON NEWS
Shirley Withers and Maxine
Peterson were overnight guests
Saturday evening of Miss Joan
Jarvis.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Schultz
and family left July 31 for a va
cation at Hale in the Wall coun
try in Wyoming for a week’s
fishing.
Sylva Rohrs spent a few days
L ——- -■ -- ■-—
last week visiting Frances Gott
i schalk.
Mr and Mrs. John Warner
and Mrs. Warner’s mother, Mrs.
Anna Rossman, were guests of
the Truman Rossmans Thursday
evening.
The Golden Rod Garden club
met at Mrs. Anna Elder’s on Ju
ly 27 with ail members present
but one. Guests included Mrs.
Elder’s daughter, Mrs. Evalyn
Adams, of Seattle, Wash., Mrs.
Joe Ballon and Miss Helen Mar
tens.
Mrs. Charles Tasler and
daughter, Mrs. Lyle Addison,
nd son were guests of Mrs. An
na Rossman Thursday, July 27.
Mrs. Mike Mullen was a
guest at the home of her daugh
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
John Dvorak, last week.
Ricky and Randy Stolcpart,
of Newport, spent Saturday
with their grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. F. J. Hanel.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jensen
were in Norfolk on business
July 28.
Elsie Bogue, of Chicago, 111.,
and Elva Bogue, of Omaha, are
visiting relatives here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fund
us, of Stuart, were dinner guests
at the Hanel home Friday eve
ning.
Donald McConnell, of St.
Louis. Mo., is spending a 3
weeks’ vacation with his aunt,
Mrs. Millard Ellenwood, and his
cousins. Dick and Dale Bogue.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Parson
left Tuesday, August 1, for
I Belle Fourche, S. D., to take in
the celebration there and will
also make a trip through Mon
tana, Canada and on to the West
' coast.
Eddie and Ida Schmicker
were dinner guests at the Ed
ward Bouska farm Friday, July
S 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sloan and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson
! and Scott Sloan, all of Spring
view, visited July 29-30 at the
Charles Sloan home. Frank
is a brother of Charles and his
wife and Mrs. Johnson are sis
ters of Mrs. Sloan.
Gladys Mae Weller was a
weekend guest at Geraldine
Hand’s home.
Mrs. R. E. Chace and son
1 Charles, drove to Sioux City
July 27 to visit R. E. Chace and
j to bring Mrs. Charles Chace
and baby son home from St
Vincent’s hospital. Mrs. R. E.
Chace remained with her hus
band and returned home Augusl
; 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wining
were Sunday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Tasler.
NEW PLANT RUNS
AT CAPACITY
Coxbill Industry Produces
Bluegrass Seed of
Highest Quality
i ATKINSON — Holt county's
I newest industry is the Coxbill
Seed company’s bluegrass seed
threshing and cleaning plant.
It is located at the Earl Cor
bil place in the northeast sec
tion of Atkinson.
In recent months Mr. Coxbill
has been designing, building
and testing this intricate ma
chinery layout to separate hay
and foreign matter from blue
grass strippings that are brought
in off lush fields in the region. I
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The plant is now running
at capacity producing blue
grass seed of the highest gual- ;
ity.
Mr. Coxbill fashioned the au
tomatic feeder from a new,
small-sized manure spreader.
It was the final hurdle which
had to be cleared before his
plant would operate at a profit
able capacity . . . and the pro
blem of converting the ordin
ary farm implement was ac
complished in an ingenious man
j ner by Mr. Coxbill.
A powerful suction fan snat
ches the bluegrass from the |
| feeder, carrying it across an !
opening about 6 inches wide to
permit stones, metal, and other
1 foreign objects to drop out be
! fore they are carried into the !
machines where they might do
! damage. Large pipes carry off
dust, chaff and cotton, the lat
! ter being deposited in a separ
ate building adjacent to the
plant.
The large black machine dir
ectly behind the feeder was al
so designed and built by Mr.
! Coxbill.
It is a combination threshing
cylinder and separator. The cy
linder threshes the strippings,
and the separating process re
moves the chaff and cotton by
means of delicately controlled
air suction.
After this first stage of thresh
ing and cleaning, the seed goes
next into an old flour mill reel,
which Coxbill has converted to
do a very efficient job of sep
arating the course hay from the
bluegrass seed.
In a corner is where the big
4 - screen cleaning mill is in
stalled. This is one of the few
pieces of equipment in the
plant that Mr. Coxbill did not
design and build himself, or
convert. i
; The mill handles the final
process of separating the small
bits of hay and foreign matter
from bluegrass seed. Through
the entire process, from the
feeder to the big burlap bag,
the seed is transferred by auto
matic conveyors from one ma
chine to another.
This seed is 86 to 88 per cent
pure bluegrass seed , . . and that
is several points more than it
is necessary to meet the requir
ed specifications for standard
: bluegrass seed. Coxbill's plant
i is running on a present produc
tion capacity of approximately
200 pounds of clean seed per
hour.
He not only ks using the plant
to thresh and clean his own
harvest of bluegrass seed, but
also has various propositions
whereby other ranchers and
farmers who cure their own
seed can profit by the use of his
plant.
Out-of-Towners at
Martin Funeral—
Among those from out-of
' town who attended the Henry
Martin funeral Saturday, July
22, were:
Mrs. Gertude Easton and son
Charles, of Greeley. Colo.; Earl
Wrede, of Bronson, Mo.;, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Pfeil, of Harold,
S. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Art Aucker,
of Wayne; Mrs. Grace Hamer
lun, of Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs.
Vinton Simonson, of Omaha;
Mrs. Clara Van Howe and Mr.
| and Mrs. Arden Berg, of Bris
! tow; Mr. and Mrs. John Hipke,
I of Springview and Mr. and Mrs.
| Norman Anderson, of Gross.
Mrs. Moses
Is Hostess—
Winners of Merry Myx club
held Tuesday at the home of
Mrs. H. S. Moses were Mrs. A.
B. Hubbard, high and Mrs. R.
M. Sauers, second high.
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| O'NEILL LOCALS
Anna Brown visited Sunday,
, July 30, with Mr. and Mrs. Ai
i bert Widtfeldt. In the afternoon
| they called on Mr. and Mrs. W.
I P- Carroll, of Atkinson.
FOR SHERIFF
Thos. J. "Jeff" Davis
YOU be the judge,
I'LL be your SHERIFF
12-13p45
Mis. Carrie Borg and Marvel
attended the group Sunday
school picnic Sunday, July 30.
In the evening they visited at
the Harley Fox home.
Mrs. Allan Prescott and Mrs.
Leonard Hamilton, of Laurel,
visited relatives in O’Neill on
Wednesday, July 26.
THE FRONTIER
PHONE 51
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF
THOS. J. “JEFF” DAVIS - Age 48
Owner and Operator
DAVIS OIL CO.
Inman. Nebr.
I 4 years in business serving the public in
Holt County
Your vote will be appreciated
YOU be the Judge and
I’LL be your SHERIFF
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