Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
CrOD and Stock Notes.

George Orange has thresned 100 acres
of wheat on his new Spiritwood farm
and got 2,67O bushels, machine measure.
from the 100 acres, which graded No. l
hard. Last year Mr.. Orange bought this
farm of $50 acres of Cuyler Adams for
$1,SOO with buildings on it which were
worth as much as the farm cost him. Mr..
Oranges wheat crop this year, not count
ing his oats, will pay the entire cost price
of the farm. There IS still & fine crop OF
oats to thresh on the farm.
A Mr.. Sanford of Sykeston, was in
jamestown yesterday, returning from
Chicago where he had been to sell car
load of beef cattle. He got $3.50 pei
hundred for the entire lot. Two fat
COWS brought him $l35.4O.
A car of wheat came down the James
town & Northern branch yesterday
marked on the outside in big letters
painted on a banner $40 bushels and 10
pounds to the acre." 1t came from the
Jos. Duff farm in Foster county, and was
being shipped to commission house.
The above is beaten by Stutsman
county yield. James Creighton, near
Spiritwood threshed out 2,42S bushels
machine measure, from field of 60 acres
wheat sowed on breaking. This is 4O
bushels and % pounds to the acre. A
field of summer fallowed ground on the
same farm yielded 35 bushels to the
acre. Fred Davis did the threshing and
reports the figures as correct.
Jno. s. Watson has finished threshing
on 10 acres north OF Jamestown. He
secured little more than q bushels OF
wheat to the acre, which graded No.
northern. The grain filled seven cars
and was sent to Duluth to be sold on
commission.
County Commissioner Lelsch has COM
pleted cutting but has not began thresh.
ing yet. He thinks it will be to the ad,
vantage of everyone who had late wheat
to keep the good and bad grain separ.
ate as far as possible. This will be hard
to do, but he believes will pay for the
effort. In some cases the frosted wheat
on low places might be stacked togather
and the wheat on higher ground also
stacked separate. Tie effects of frost
are becoming more apparent daily.
The James river valley is underlaid
with substratum of shale, which acts
as an effective drainage IN a wet season
In dry season the river valley farms
suffer on account of the excessive drain
age underneath. But abundant rains
this year have produced magnificent
crops in the river bottom. The crops in
the valley were matured before those on
the uplands, and we're out of the way
before the frost fell. This was owing to
the fact that the river bottom crops were
grown on sandy soil that was thoroughly
drained, and hence the grain matured
sooner than in the heavy upland soil
which retained the moisture longer.
Undrained soil retains an excess OF
moisture IN a wet season and keeps the
crops green longer than it does where
the soil is sandy or underlaid with shale.
All the sandy and gravelly land that was
planted IN proper season, was ready to
harvest before the frost fell. In drouth
year the crops in the James river valley
are almost worthless, while in a rainy
season they are simply glorious. In
1884 some OF the valley farms produced
40 bushels Of wheat per acre.
Ninety acres on the farm Of E. Il.
Kearney will show very bad result
from the frost, he claims. On the north
side of the field the grain will grade re-
jected, and on the south side it is hardly
worth cutting. Oats will be very light,
he says, in many cases, from the frost.
Some yields have been heard Of that
weighed as little as % pounds to the
bushel.
Geo. Wyllle, who has been superin-
tending threshing in field Of wheat put
in by himself and George Webster, re-
ports that it will give good yield, but
the frosted berries are so numerous that
they spoil the value of the good wheat,
and the mill can not use it.