St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-31
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
orabie Than Previously Reported.
Special to the Globe.
WATERFOWL, July 3O.-Your CORE
spondent gathered the following facts to-
day on a flying trip to the seat of Brown
county. At Henry, twenty miles west
of Watertown. the wheat fields are just
ripened and ready for the sickle and prom
Use a good average yield. although the
drouth has had its effect. The heads are
filled plump, and heavy. At Clark we
interviewed Judge Conklin, pioneer who
has attained rank as farmer, lawyer, editor,
landlord and politician. He said;
''We have had season of surprises and
Sand changes. The spring opened up very
discouragingly but plenty of rainfall and
warm weather came on after the grain was
up and it grew rapidly. Never saw better
prospect for Dakota than was presented in
May and June and then came the hot winds
like simeon about July 1st and continued
several days at the end Of which every
thing looked so parched and dry that
we expected nothing but a total fail
ure, but the harvest which is now
upon us: proves our fears to be ground
less. Thank God, Clark county is not a Ges-
ert Most of the wheat fields are good for
are fair.
At Raymond, L. W. Stacked, land agent
and extensive farmer, says he predicted a
complete failure the first of the month,
but is happily disappointed. Barley and
rye are fair, oats poor, and flax ruined, but
wheat will go ten bushels. At Frankfort
E. j. Kaull, grain buyer and the proprie-
tor of one of the finest farms in this section.
said his grain will not yield over half
crop. and the same estimate will about hit
the rest of the farmers in the Jim River
valley At Redfeld, F. A Dawes, cashier
of Sphinx County bank, said they didn't ex-
pect very flush times until another season.
Everybody had raised something to fall
back upon, and would make expenses and
live comfortably. Some would cut an av-
erage crop. Several fields would go twenty
bushels. At Worthwhile, Dana Child.
dealer in implements, said his business was
fully up to the standard of good times. A
great many will get a good crop. and all
will realize far better profits than was pre-
dicted three weeks ago. The grain never
filled out plumper, and will weigh like lead
Threshing has begun and the yield is turn
ing out surprisingly well. No one is dis
couraged. Times are good and nobody
complains. At Mansfield, Fred Baird,
merchant, said they never had so good an
outlook for bountiful harvest as was prom
ised in May and June, but the hot winds
created havoc. Trade is good, however,
and wheat will, to make a low estimate,
produce ten to twelve and possibly fifteen
bushels per acre. At Aberdeen G. A. Bliss
farmer, merchant and banker, said that
city seemed to grow right along and bust
ness was fiourishing, but the crops were not
fiattering, yet great many would harvest
ten bushels to the acre. Stock would pay
better than grain in the long run. At Ord
way ''Ordway" johnson said he didn't be-
lieve there was so great a failure but that
more railroads were needed to carry grain to
market. At Columbia, j. Il. James, post
master, said they had much better crop
than two years ago. Wheat will yield in
many places twenty and no doubt twenty
five bushels to the acre. There is something
peculiar about.these Western prairies. Down
in Sphinx and Beadle counties where rain
has been less abundant and drouth quite Sc
we're, although the praries are as parched and
withered as desert, the crops look in many
places very good. 1t is wonderful what
this soil will produce without rain