Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-09-24
BURLElGH'S BONANZA
THE CEREAL CROP OF THE
COUNTY RETIEWED.
Interesting Facts...Enormous Yield
for the First Year---What the
Farmers Have Done---A
Detailed Statement.
THE RETURNS,

Detailed Statement.
THE RETURNS,
Like those from Maine, are not all in,
but they are entirely satisfactory. Such
as we have we publish now and urge the
farmers of Burleigh county TO hand in
the figures. Give us by all means the
amount of ground sown to wheat, oats
and barley and the amount planted to
corn and the result per acre. In this
statement we have been compelled to rely
largely on the threshcrs' books. They
are correct as to the amount threshed, but
they do not give the yield per acre. John
Quinlan had six acres of wheat and forty
acres of oats. The yield of wheat was
3119 bushels per acre; oats, II bushels.
The wheat was extra No. 1. Eighty
seven bushels of it weighed III bushels,
an increase of over twenty-five per cent
above the standard. Tho oats weighed
forty pounds to the bushel, an increase of
twenty five per cent. Thomas Van Etten,
on an adjoining farm, had 81 bushels Of
wheat per acre; 69H of oats, and 40 bush
els of barley. c. A. Lounsberry had 225
bushels of wheat from eleven acres, and
Lovett Gill's farm, worked by Alex Cam
eron, from ninety acres of wheat gave an
average of % bushels per acre. Norman
Falconer had fifty acres Of oats and
twenty-five of wheat,
THE AVERAGE
being about so of oats and % of wheat.
VIM. A. Meserve had 419 bushels of
wheat, the average being 19 bushels per
acre. Sol. Sunderland had one acre Of
oats and 81 bushels yield. Robert Mac
nider had on his homestead 80 acres of
wheat which will return twenty odd
bushels per acre, and John A. Mclean
had so acres Of oats, yielding 5000 bush
els. Henry Falconer had % acres of
oats and wheat. Alex Cameron had 2 $40
bushels OF oats and 800 bushels Of wheat.
Harry Galloway had 1040 bushels OF oats
and 1853 bushels Of wheat His grain
was largely on sod broken last spring,
but his wheat yield was Is bushels per
acre and oats 80. Alex Mckenzie had
1850 bushels of oats, light crop on sod.
Thomas Fortune had 345 bushels of oats
j. F. Wallace, $50 bushels Geo. G. Glib
son, IS bushels of wheat from one acre,
and VIM. Gibson 142 bushels, the yield
being 81 bushels per acre. Henry Suttle
had 859 bushels OF oats and 1862 of wheat.
G.. w. Freede had 989 bushels of oats and
10 bushels of wheat. N. Dunkelberg,
1918 bushels of oats, 272 bushels of wheat
and 90 bushels of barley. John Pollock
had e10 bushels of oats, and l.. S. Clem-
ems At bushels. Matt Cunnae had six
acres of wheat which yielded
THIRTY FIVE BUSHELS PER ACRE.
Geo. Hay had 20 acres of wheat Col.
VIM. Thompson had so acres of wheat
averaging 19 bushels per acre, and 10
acres of cats, averaging Is bushels. Pat
N1alloy had ten acres of oats, and Fred
Strauss 1868 bushels from 35 acres, and is
to-day threshing 40 acres Of wheat which
Will yield about 25 bushels per acre. In
the Maine settlement j. A. Field had 400
bushels of wheat from 90 acres, and 200
bushels of oats from four acres. Cyrus
Scribner had 1870 bushels of wheat from
eight bushels sown, and 800. bushels of
oats from six acres. N. E. Shelton had
1853 bushels Of wheat from ten bushels
sown, and 500 bushels of oats from ten
acres. NJ. u. Downs had 200 bushels of
oats from this springs breaking. l.. o.
Stevens had 40 acres of wheat and 20
acres of oats. The wheat was raised ON
Judge Bowens land and will yield GER
tainly 20 bushels, and the oats are as
good as any in the neighborhood. James
Kerbin had IS acres Of wheat and ten of
oats that averaged about the same as his
neigh 5ors. A. w. Hall had 315 bushels
of oats from about six acres. Peter Cox
had little wheat, some oats and sod
corn that averaged rs bushels to the acre
Il rlpened fully three weeks before frost
Thomas Jones had 900 bushels of oats
from 80 acres. G. r. Williams had 1900
bushels ofoats from 80 acres, and Rev. ].
G. Miller 1000 bushels Of wheat from SO
acres. w. H. Thurston had 65 acres of
wheat averaging % bushels per acre, and
10 acres Of sod corn averaging 80 bushels
per acre. DR.. Bentley had 944 bushels of
wheat and 242 bushels of oats from his
own and the Winston farm. J. G.. Pitts,
456 bushels Of oats and $50 Of wheat.
Mrs. Kelly, III bushels of oats and 18 of
wheat. In the =a: EsaH ty5t liz ''7' q
M Jss.-. -. PAINTED WOODS 70. ~"'.'s.'
nelghborhood John Sutherland had 1875
acres Of wheat which gave 30 bushels per
acre, and so acres of oats, 20 bushels per
acre; Peer Lotfness had ten acres of.
wheat, 25 bushels per acre; L: A. Larson
ten acres, IS bushels per acre; CIV.
johnson five acres, 20 bushels; Ole Han.
son one acre, 30 bushels; s. A. Peterson
four acres, 20 bushels per acre; Oliver
Peterson, ~ acres, 2l bushels, and two
acres of oats, 80 bushels per acre; W.H
Mel Ger had 35 acres Of wheat, 18 bushels
per acre, and 80 acres of oats, IS bushels
per acre. E. Damstrom had three acres
of wheat, 20 bushels per, acre. @. Az
King had 80 acres OF wheat averaging 20
bushels per acre, and 155 acres 'ot oats, 40
bushels per acreoIn the Hayes farm
nelghborhood, l.. NJ. Hartman had 40
acres Of wheat, 20 bushels per acre, and
20 acres Of oats, 80 bushels per acre;
David Stewart had SO acres of oats, "a,
bushels. per acre; VIM. ,Sebra, IA acres Of
oats, IS bushels per acre, and II acres of,
wheat, 20 bushels per acre; Walter Brien
had II acres of oats, 42 bushels per acre;
John Briep, 11Eacres of oats, Is bushels
nor 1cro. Geo 10y n acrps of Oafa A5