Among the manuscript records kept at the South Union Shaker Colony from 1807-1922 are house journals, trustees’ account books, and diaries.
June 1829 Twenty seven young brethren bound and handstacked twenty acres of wheat today.
…..William Ware did better in getting the one thing needful than we had expected.
Reference Data:
Filson Club History Quarterly Volume XLII 1968
Twenty acres of wheat is a huge amount even for 27 young men to cut, bind and stack in shocks, all in one day. I assume they were stacked in shocks.
Wayne