New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-15
DA hOIA.
q LATE SEASON But GREATLY INCREASED
ACREAGE.

q LATE SEASON But GREATLY INCREASED
ACREAGE.
GFRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE rRIDuxE.l
BISMARCK Oak. May lO-ClmatIc peTycrsity has
modified the snngulne views Of farmers entertained
at the time of m report OF April It, / most hope
full now perceivcs with some uueaSiness that the
season is far behind most years and fully twenty
days later than the spring of lSS2 The frost has
been Oath 20 leave The ground. warm DAYS have
been scarce and snowfalls have been more lI-oucnt
than rains But encouragement is not warranted
nor felt for. although late IN the dav farmers con-
sole themselves with the reflection that nearly all
their seeding has been done and decided improve
ment in the weather IS manlestlng itself. fair
estimate of the incr aSe in acreage has already cen
given III my correspondence. and not a word need
be retracted now. Granting fairly good season.
the wheat crop Of thls Territory NAV be expected
TO reach 20, 300 600 bushels, and the figures may
even come nearer 70 600 OO. Tins would bee about
one-thiId larger than the yield of 1852, and more
than double that of 1881. The people of Dakota
are bcsnnlngto perceive that their staple cereal.
though ovcrshadowng all others IN point Of ma sui-
tude, is by no means the only thing 10 be Consd-
cred. The enormous WELD of oats last year opened
the eyes Of even the bonanza farmers to the value
of this product, aad on some such vast prod cIng
estates as the Troy farm in Kiddcr County, nearly
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oats Some OF the farmers talk of trying fax as a
sod crop, but the difficulty of getting 1t IN early
enough and marketing II economically when raised,
seems 10 stand in the way at present. The corn
product Goes not vet reach important dimensions
here is 1t likely to for years recent tnp over
the Northern Pacific between Bismarck and Fargo
afforded the best opportunity for getting AT the true
condition of affairs. The portion OF the Territory
trayerSed comprises large fraction of the wheat
area of Dakota. Burlelgh. Kidder Stuttsman,
Barnes and Cass were the counties inspected. com
prisng all the territory between the Red and Mis-
SCUM rivers along the lue OF the railroad In all
these counties large increase in broken ground
observed, and this, of course, will be followed
by a correspondingly large increase in cultivated
area. A far conjecture of this increase Is: Cass
and Barnes Is per cent; Stuttsman 20 Kiddcr
and Bur egh, so Last year IN Kidder q. 900 acres
were under cultivation and at least 5000 Will lie
added this season. Burleigh. of which Bismarck is
the county scat, has only lately awakened to the
possibilities of its expansive plains Allowing 600
acres Tor 1852 fully 10000, and perhaps more will
be shown TO have come under the harrow in 1883.
The new land in CasS. Barnes and Stuttsuan is al
most exclusively IN wheat, Throughout the entire
portion of Dakota lying east of theMssOuri River
and the same may likewise be said of the part on
the west of that sream-the ground during the first
week of May was IN far condition for working !;
and though moist enough then and now. the farmer
looks forward with little anxiety to the latter
part of June, when rains will be memorable Ee-
cessIty. Wheat raiscrs are this season very wisely
taking more care not only to the quality of the
seed sown but as 10 the set of the drill gauge The
experience Of a few years has shown them just how
many pounds 10 the bring the best results, and
the caution and discrimination now exercised will
no doubt find ample reward at harvest time. sub-