The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1883-08-04
WHAT OUR FARMERS SAY
or the crops which will soon be llar.
vested.

VIII soon be harvested are very good
and from interviews with some of
the leading farmers in different parts
of the county and careful estimates
we predict an average yield of forty
bushels of oats and twenty bushels
of wheat to the acre.
The following are the statements
of these farmers:
The Davis brothers. are extensive
farmers near here are now harvesting
their oats. They say the yield will
be an average one, that the grain is
about forty inches high and we'll
filled and say there is no doubt but
that this is a good farming country.
Chas. $. Burke's farm lies three
miles north of here. lie says he has
l2O acres of oats which will turn out
at least forty bushels to the acre and
that with good farming this part of
the territory will soon gain q world
wide reputation as one of the best
agricultural districts in the country.
II. l.. Dickineon, manager of the
Dickinson farm says they have in
about $50 acres of grain. The crop
of oats will not be quite up to the
average but that wheat is looking
well. He has implicit confidence in
the great northwest for farming pur-
poses.
Geo. Rand thinks his oats will turn
out well although they are little
short; that his potatoes are doing
nicely and the yield will he large.
p. Seaman has in about fifty acres
of oats and thinks they will he below
the average but that he will have
fair crop.
Mr. Ham manager of II. B. Lyons
farm near Taylor says he is we'll sat
isfied with the appearance of his
crops. They consist of l25 acres of
oats and I acres of potatoes. The
oats average thirty inches high and
are of good color, exceedingly we'll
filled and at a low estimate will yield
thirty bushels per acre. Potatoes
could not look better.
G. II. Nannier and Henry T.. Van
nier have forty acres in oats, twelve
acres i'll wheat and two and half
acres in potatoes. Six acres of the
wheat will average tllirty-eight
inches in hight, with heads from
three to five inches long. Color ex-
cellent, berry very large, probable
yield eighteen to twenty bushels per
acre. The other six acres growing
on ground that was broken early
in June last year and not backset;
will probably yield fifteen per acre.
The oats, with the exception of eight
acres where the weeds got start,
are good, from thirty-six to forty
four inches high, excellent color, well
filled and will probably yield from
thirty-tive to forty-five bushels per
acre. The potatoes cannot be beat.
j. X. Stack has eight acres i'll
wheat and ten acres in oats. The
wheat is good where the ground was
backset, tllirty-siX inches high, good
color, well headed and filed, and is
good for sixteen bushels per acre all
through the field. Oats thirty to
forty inches high; thirty-live to forty
bushels per acre.
j. M. Tracy says his wheat and
oats are short but well filled. Wheat
about three feet high, oats thirty to
tlirty-six inches, promise forty
bushels per acre.
Fred. Zellers has ten acres of very
fine oats. They measure thirty-six
to forty inches, splendid color, good
heads, well filled and should yield at
least forty bushels per acre.
All the above named gentlemen
agree that the yield would have been
much greater had the ground been
backset. Also that good farming
will insure good crops even during
dry season.
G. S. Cryne, of Gladstone, says
that in q talk with several Of their
farmers, he sums up the result as
follows: Wheat will go from fifteen
to twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Some pieces are poor, probably
twenty bushels to the acre. Some
will go as high as forty bushels.
Corn looks we'll, and potatoes will
yield Il fair crop.
With what information we could
gather from around Richar,lton it is
safe to say the average for oats there
will he about forty bushels, and
wheat twenty. All other crops are
looking well and the people generlly
are satisfied with the West Missouri
country and especially Stark county.
All other towns in the county from
which reports have been received
show about the same results.
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town OH the west bound train. Tues