The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
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Circular Letter From the Commissioner
Of Immigration.

OF Immigration.
The average condition of the grow
ing crops, throughout the Territory,
continues most favorable and promises
the farmer Il more bountiful harvest
than ever before recorded, not except
ing even the great crop of last season,
when the yield of wheat, in Dakota,
amounted to 62,553,40q busllels,-a
record, which has never been equalcd
by any State or Territory of the I'M
ion. OF course, there are localities
where the yield will fall much below
the avtrage-the result of local eli
matte disaster or other circumstances
unfavorable for the growing of wheat,
corn. oats, flax, ETC.; and this will al
ways he true where the area farlnch
covers so many degrees of latitude
and longitude aslin Dakota. for we can
scarcely expect a season so favorable
as to realize the hopes of the hus-
blnlman in every county of so vast a
a domain. From present indications,
it is believed that these local disap-
pointinents will be fewer in number
this season than in any year in the
past.
The month of July in this latitude,
is always a trying period for the grow.
ing crops; but the dangers of mid
ummer have been past and we now
find the average condition of each
farm product higher than ut the same
date of last year--with the exception
of corn, buckwheat and vegetables.
During the past month wheat lost 3
points, but, notwithstanding, leads the
average condition, as it stood just be-
fore the harvest Of 1887. by Is; corn
gained . points and is now only IL
points behind the showing on July 30
of last season; oats gained 9 points
and are 90 points higher than Il year
ago; rye and barley each lost two
points and the general average of each
leads that of 1881, by Ii; buckwheat
and potatoes are recorded Il point
| lower than in June; flax shows u fall
ing off of six points, but is yet 4 points
higher than at the same date of last
season; the average condition of the
vegetable crop is now 81, OF 3 points
better than injthe report for June.
But the greatest improvement in
the condition of the crop, us compared
with that of last season, is found in
ten counties bordering OH the Missouri
river, which, at this date of 1887,
we're rated, by Is correspondents, at
50 As. Today, the same counties
show an average condition of the
wheat crop of ss As points--or, as re-
ported by 81 correspondents, the re-
markable gain of 35 points. The
counties last referred to harvested Il
crop of 2,O73,2sO bushels of wheat in
1887.
The condition OF the corn crop is
not 50 fattering, although the weather
has been such as to result in an i'm.
provelnent of 9points within a month,
which, with Il like advance throughout
August, ;uit, Il weak OF so in Septem-
Der. may he counted upon to make
amends for the tar.iiIurss of spring
growth. and bring this crop fully up
To the best average of past seas ms.
Last harvest. 81 counties of southern
Dakota produced l5,s57.n92 bushels of
corn. or almost tw0-thirds Of the en-
tire crop of the Territory. A yeal
ago, "A correspondents placed the av'
er.igc condition of the corn crop, il
these counties ut "a. or II point.
higher than its present average condi
ton. in the same area. as estimated 10y
81 correspondents.
These estimates and comparison:
are convincing and. with a continna
ton of favorable conditions, this office
confidently expects to record Il lIarves
in 1883. with Il heavier yield than tina
of amy previous season.
Barley. oatS and ryr have been har
vested in many of tie counties of til,
south, and the work of securing thu
wheat crop is we'll under way.
u. +. MCCLURE,
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