Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-25
james Fl. Bell.

/ ,"-AA MAINLY,
-. Barnes county, samuel A. FISHER.
10 10 Steele and Griggs counties, ~. o. Smith
Is c ca,s9n county, I'D. $; Dodds:
10. Wowner and Eolatte COMMITTEES At u.
Eaton, Rolette. -''
~. I5enson md othor counties, #E, L. Yazer
~. hSal1lsey county, "W. f. Swanston.
-; Eddy, Foster and Wells counties, IF, G..
Barlow, Fostor.
a. Stutsman county, Bailey Cutler.
o. o. ~. Moure county III: S. Deisem.
-. D1ckey county, IN. E. Randall
Emmons. . N-'''
y. Burleigh county, &c. B. Little.
SNensrud, Bottineau.
- Ward, Mclean and other counties, #E, H.
Bolyea, Ward. - -
80, 30: Morton and Oliver counties, *Geo Har-
81. Stark and other counties IN C. Lawrence.
REPRESENTATIVES,.
ri !. pembina county, John Watt, FIR. B.
2. Pembina county TIT T. Nortor aro,,,
Sadloman. 'oA1n
B: Wal 81 county, *John H. Mccullough, "a.
-. Walsh county *John Montgomery. sole O.
AnugnrHd, alexander Thompson.
~ y. Grand Forks county, *trankln Estabrook.
*Nels Tanburg.
6. Grand Forks county. *Geo Fl Walsh 1T.
n, =; ;, Grand Forks county, IA. B. Haugen, solo
Il. drOnlln.
s. Trail county, *Roaerick John. *T g.
Satire ~. L. selby, III. ii. strom,, '0AA--' - w.
.. Cass county, *E. S. Tyler, Eff. 8. Tho1np-
son.
pj 59 oass s1 eqpanty +h W. Mcintyre IN. B.
II. .,. Ga s., county, &H D. Court, *Frank Lar.
ger, *W. w. Benrd.
NJ L. Richand county, *R. H. Hankinson, fR.
N. Ink, "a. o. Heglie.
13. Sargent county, #E. w. Bowen #w 6
Buchanan. W. o'
=, IA RAMON county, *N. r. stevens, ~, L.
NJ, Is; barnes county, duncan Mcdonald
- l6. Steele and Griggs counties, *W. H.H.
honey, *Ches. Balkan.
y. Nelson county, hole E. olsRaard,
Renaud. H'
10. Towner and Rollette counties, *James
Bretten, Towner
90. Benson and other counties, *Geo E.
lngebreston, sd. p. Thomas.
"; ramsey county, *James Mccormack, &c.
A. Currier.
%: Eddy, Foster and Wells counties, *David
3. Wellman, Eddy *Luther L. Walton, Wells.
,1i3 ~: a5ussman county, tGen. Lutz *John
%. La Moure county, FL. A. Neland.
g. Dlckey county, *W. B. Allen, ga. T.
g. Emmons and other counties. *G. w,
Lilly, Mcintosh; *W. L. Beldon, Logan.
Rawlings. W.
20. I,ottlneeu and AIcHenry counties, tJas.
Reed, IN. Henry.
90 Ward, Mclean and other counties, *Jno.
Satterlund.
30; Morton and Oliver counties SAW. Hoyt,
81. Stark and other counties, &c. G. Moon,
Mercer. -S-N-''
Commissioners Hagerty's Crop.R Report.
f. H. Hagerty, commissioner of immigra-
ton for Dakota, has made the following
showing of the crop yield for the year 1883:
II the superiority of Dakota as an agri-
cultural region needed further demonstra-
ton it IS TO be found in the
results OF this years crops.
Reports were sent broadcast over the
country that the crops in Dakota were an
almost total failure. Indeed, within the
territory the gravest apprehensions were
entertained, for never was the producing
capacity OF a region more severely tried bv
adverse circumstances. There was an un
usual lack of rainfall, and in some regions
the grain was beset while yet in the mill
by hot winds; yet out of what seemed dis.
aster, out of what veritably might have
proved ashes, Dakota again rises, Phoenix.
like, and surprises the world with
a succession of splendid crop to-
tails. Again the empire territory
distances every state and territory
in the production of wheat, and rolls ur
the grand total of A, 009,U92 bushels, to.
tai based upon careful estimate, and best
OF all, nearly every bushel of this great
amount is Of the very highest grade, large
ly of the No. l hard variety-richer in the
albuminoids than the wheat of any region
in the world
AS will be seen from the accompanying
tables the total acreage of wheat in Da.
kota for 1889 was 4,669,717 acres; the yielG
as above stated was "A, OO9, O92 bushels; the
total acreage of oats was 1,l22, 4O2, ant
the yield 21,369,7OS bushels; the tota
acreage of corn s14,G77, and the yield 49,.
32,O73 bushels; the total acreage of bar
ley 255, $3.50, and the yield 4,455,777; the
total acreage Of rye 1874, and the tota
yield 301, JOY bushels; 3,O33 acres of buck
wheat yielded 1864 bushels; 1866 acre.
of potatoes yielded 4,03S,262 bushels
while 400, 31A acres of flax produced 3,2SS,
ll5 bushels Of flax seed.
AS compared with the crops of 1885
when the acreage and yield were as fol
lows:
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