Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1891-09-25
CROP REPORTS.

CROP REPORTS.
Not From One Locality Alone, but
Throughout the State.
Chas. Bulls, of Brookings county,
threshed 400 bushels of No. / wheat
grown on eleven acres and forty rods
Of land. %"
One threshing outfit in Davidson
county has already threshed cut
26, 900 bushels OF No. l wheat. The
average of Davidson will be about
twenty five bushels to the acre.
s. A. Caldwell. OF Hanson county,
threshed his crops last week. He got
1875 bushels OF barley from 1-2 acres;
80 bushels OF rye from 8 acres; 1900
bushels of wheat from 40 acres; 500
bushels OF oats from II acres; 80
bushels Of red Texas oats from one
sack of seed. He will have about $50
bushels OF fine millet seed for sale.
Some of the twenty nine farmers
in McCook county who were so unfor-
tunate as to be in the track of the
August hail storm in that county,
have inst threshed their wheat. In
no case did it yisld less than Is bush
els per acre and in many cases it
reached 20 bushels per acre. Most Of
them cay that they threshed as much
as they expected to before the hail.
Threshing on the irrigated farm OF
&ha No~ool;l o<aI and snI Tvvsoo ksnv,
company north OF Huron, is now in
progress. Wheat taken from meas.
ured ground in different parts of the
field threshed fiity-three bushels and
twenty pounds an acre. actual weight.
The threshine was witnessed by q
large number of disinterested parties,
many of them being from cities out
side of Huron.
Will Newcomer brought to the
Huronite Office Friday morning, q
basket OF potatoes grown by ]. R.
Fryer on his premises in Bloodgood's
addition. They are of the Early Ohio
variety and weigh from I Ia to 2
pounds each, and arc smooth and
sound. From q patch 12Ox165 feet
Mr.. Fryer will have about go bushels;
and the ground was not irrigated
Huron Huronite. ...."
Awell authenticated instance comes
from Hanson county, ola man paying
with this seasons crop not only the
total cost OF his land, but also his ex-
penses for the year. Last year he
bought at MORTGAGE sale q haltsection
for 300, and he has now on hand
in cash $4,000 realized from sale of
this seasons produce $500 more
than his land cost hiIn-and has corn,
potatoes, ETC., yet to harvest, and he
kept out OF his small grain crop enough
for feed and seed. There are hun
dreds of instances in this state where
men have cleared more than the price
Of their farms of Of this seasons
yield.
Martin Karlstad had q little thresh.
ing bee at his farm in Bangor last Sat.
day, the results of which are we'll
worth recording. From 63 acres OF
wheat he got 1875 bushels; oats, S38
bushels from % acres; fax, $50 BUSH
els from 25 acres, and another piece
went 10 bushels. While threshing the
wheat, unknown to tho threshers,
come one "kept tab" on the delivery
spout and found that it was pouring
out the grain at the rate of six BUSH
els per minute. Mr.. Karlstad is one
OF the kind who does his work at
home-a seal farmer and it is q
pleasure to hear of such men having g.
good yield.-Volga Tribune.
A railroad man said to q Sioux City
Journal reporter that ten families
who deserted their far ms near Mitchell
last year on account OF crop failure.
had returned aad would now remain
permanently. Another case heard
about was that of . shoemaker at
Huron. He mad been living there q.
long time and had saved few hun
dred dollars. Last spring he wrote
to the owners OF q number Of farms
that had been deserted, Offering to
pay the taxes for the use Of them this
year. The permission was gladly
granted and he had no trouble secur.
ing leases OF 5000 acres OF the best
farm land, practically in one contin-
uous tract, on these terms. Having
the land, he spent his savings for seed
wheat, planted the farms and waited
for Developments. The crop was a,
wonderful one. When harvest time
came the crop was security enough to
secure funds with which to pay for the
harvesting. Now he is threshing it,
and the boarded up farm houses are.
being converted into granaries to hold
the wheat. The enterprlsing shoe.
maker has made q fortune out OF his,
small savings, and the owners OF the
pronerty are all coming back to take,