Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-29
The Prospects Throughout the State
and the Estimated Yield as Com
puted from Reliable Sources.
Many Reasons Set Forth, as to Why
the NORTH Dakota Farmer
Should Rejoice.
A Passenger on Train 8 Has a Fit,
and Is Turned Over to the
Authorities.
The Coming Crop.

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It is but a short time until harvest,
and, while the wheat yield Will not be as
great as it was in 1891, an abundant
amount of wheat in North Dakota this
year may be SAID to be already assured.
The crop of the year 1891 was an ex-
ceptional yield. This fact is admitted
by everyone, and, even under as favor
able circumstances as could be asked,
the yield may not be equaled for some
years to come. But the benefits derived
from thes'9i crop were not as great as
they might have been, because of the
fact that farmers in many cases we're un-
able to harvest and care for the grain
properly. Threshers and threshing crews
were scarce, and many thousands Of
bushels of wheat were left in stack un-
threshed, the intention being to thresh
again in the spring. In many cases this
plan was successfully carried out, and
the grain was threshed in the spring, not
much, if any, damaged by it's having
stood over winter; but in many other
cases grain was improperly stacked.
During the winter it was soaked again
and again with sleet and melting snow;
some of it was partially destroyed by TO-
dents and other bothersome and destruc-
tive animals, and,::as a result, much of
the grain brought to market this spring,
was rejected, or a part of it docked as
damaged. Several loads of wheat have
been purchased by merchants in our own
city, in appearance as sound and good as
any No. l hard, but it had been wetted
and was fit for nothing but chicken feed.
Of course it will be understood that
not all grain which was stacked over
winter and threshed in the spring was
thus badly damaged, but much of it
was and the benefits derived from the
81 crop were not as great as they would
have been had farmers been able to
thresh out all the grain in the fall.
This year, however, the crop is ex-
pected, and preparations have been made
to care for it. It is thought that thresh-
ers and crews can be obtained by all in
time to harvest the crop. Farmers
have learned by experience the best
modes of caring for the grain, and every
thing looks favorable.
Again, the fall of rain during the
summer has been different from
the usual rainfall. Tho rains have
been violent and numerous and as a re-
suit, lakes and sloughs of water are
found in abundance over the prairies.
This water IS absorbed and taken up by
the winds which pass over it, and &C.
cordingly, these winds, instead of being
hot and dry, as is too often the case, are
charged with a cooling moisture, which
is, in itself, of a beneficial nature.
Crop reports from all wei the state
are encouraging, and especially is the
fact realized from conversation with the
farmers in u own vicinity. They say,
almost with one voice, that wheat is in
excellent condition. Because of the
lateness of the spring the grain is
what backward, but it has begun to head
and with twenty to twenty-five days
of good growing weather everything will
be serene.
In some cases throughout the state
rust is reported, but the damage there
from is slight.
The acreage for the present year does
not equal that of last year, by about 25
per cent. The Northern Pacific Elevator
company, from a canvass of the terri
tory along the line of it's elevators, esti-
mates that the crop harvested will be
about rs per cent. of last years yield
Stop a moment to consider, and it will
be seen that rs per cent. or ever 60 per
cent. OF last years yield will form a
bountiful harvest. The earth is large,
and North Dakota surely does not want
it wholly and absolutely. This years
crop carefully harvested, will be large
enough to create a smile upon the face
Of each farmer in the state. There is
abundant cause for rejoicing; all circum-
stances combine au%spiciously to the
reaping of a magnificent crop, and the
North Dakota farmer may with conf
dense and security take stand against
the world in behalf OF the excellence of
his farm and his state.
He is Here.
Fargo Republican: Friday evening the
eastern bound train brought a p%enniless
painter to town. A few minutes after he
landed he was taken with something like
epilepsy and fell in the Northern Pacific
waiting room. He was carried to the
city park and DR.. Vidal was summoned.
He remained unconscious for more than
an hour. He was removed to the police
station, but soon recovered and went on
his way rejoicing. This morning Com
missioner Wilson gave the man a ticket
to Bismarck where it is said he has
friends.
The man referred to arrived from
jamestown, where he must have stopped.
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