The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1889-09-12
THE GOLDEN HARVEST.
Samples of Richards Grain
Fields Proving the Great
Virtue of her Soil.
MORE WHEAT THAN HAY.

To give the reader nn idea of how wheat is
turning out this year, We spent some two
hours on the street, Monday morning, and
learned these facts:
Chas. Damercrs wheat averages alh
bushels to the acre.
Samuel Taylor threslcd 1850 of wheat from
100 acres. averaging 81 bushels.
Jessie Smith threshcd from zoo acres 5000
bushels OF wheat, a5 to the acre.
Fcrd Baker, near Wahpeton, thrcshcd 95G4
bushels OF wheat from $50 acres.
Andrew Slottcn thrcslcd 5000 bushe Is of
wheat from $50 acres, 20 to the acre.
ID. Il. Rice thrcshcd $3.50 bushels of wheat
from 5GO acres, averaging 2s bushels.
w. ]. Crafts wheat of the Michigan settle.
mcnt, averaged % bushels to the acre.
NJ. p. Proper thrcshcd from 200 acres 1900
bushels of wheat, 20 bushels to the acre.
Wenzcl Kubcla tIlrcshcd from 200 acres
dG1O bushels Of wheat, some 2s to the acre.
Albert Formancck's wheat averages 20
bushels from old ground and % from new.
Freeman circuit thrcslcd 1900 bushels Of
wheat from 24O acres, averaging 90 bushels.
J.P. Taylor's wheat in the Michigan settle
ment, averaged 35 bushels to the acre, No. /
hard!
Michael Chezick tIlrcshes 5000 bushels of
wheat from 210 acres, averaging nearly a5
bushels.
Joseph Wovcikl, on the Minnesota
side, threshcd a9i1 bushels of wheat from
14O acres.
Levi Baker, Michigan settlement, threshctl
1920 bushels from GO acres of his farm, 35 to
the acre.
Herbert Hraun's wheat, German Settle
mcnt, ranged from Is to 30 bushels, old and
new land.
Anton Hafner, near Moorcton, threshed
PIG bushels from 105 acres, averaging nearly
% bushels.
VIM. r. Eckcs tlircsllcd from 4s acres 1OO9ls
bushels of wheat, ranging from 81 to 30
to the acre.
Anton Mkschc thrcshcd from 511 acres
1900 bushels, ranging from % to 27 bushels
to the acre.
Anson Gallup, in the Michigan settlement,
tllrcshcd 21O0 bushels of wheat from 90 acres
OF his farm.
Frank Formancck's wheat averaged "a
| bushels to the acre, he thrcslling 1870 bushels
| from 53 acres.
f. w. Stickncy, Michigan settlement
tlrcshcdG 5000 bushels of wheat from 3tO acres
| averaging 3 bushels, hard wheat.
i,,I,, Mi,
| farm but thrcshcd 1000 bushels of wheat
from 50 acres, averaging 20 bushels.
II. Rich thrcsIcd $1,000 bushels of wheat
| from G50 acres, averaging 20 bushels. He has
also 200 OF oats and 1000 Of barley.
VIM. Dcitz thrcsllcd 1890 of wheat from aCa
acres, nearly 20 bushels to the acre. An(
Mr. Dcitz got 400 bushels of oats from 3:
acres.
And II man near Christine, whose name VIC
| have lost, thrcshcd $50 bushels of whca,
| from Il special 10 acres, 45 bushels to the
acre!
ii. ilallkins OF the Minnesota side, thrcshcL
| 1850 bushels of wheat from 3a!9 acres. lie
| also raised 1000 bushels Of oats and 1000 OF
barley.
II is estimated that the keystone farm vii
| this year produce 5000 bushels of wheat
| the Cleveland farm GO,O00 bushels, the Down
| ing farm 50.0Gn, the Adams farm 100000, ana
the Dwight farm 125,010, these large farms
| averaging not far from 20 bushels to the acre
Edward Connolly, north of town on the
Red River made this experiment. Or 20
acre tract of his large farm he summer fol-
lowed and manurcd ten acres last year, and
this ycat he tNrcslied from this ten acres 1l5
bushels of wheat! And from the ten acres
adjoining it he lhrcshcd 21O bushels. Mr..
Connolly's general crop is large this year.
|. On John IioiIman's farm, south of Wall-
pcton, Monday, Geo. Flitt thrcshcd $500 BUSH
els OF whca, and set his machine FIVE times.
1t required eight men to pitch, two men to
feed with third tie ''rcst" them, two men to
measure with IL third to "rcst" them, and
five wagons to haul the grain away from the
separator! That's the way grain is knocked
out in Richlund.
What's the matter with Richland county
ssOll, she's all right" Got more wheat than
hay!