The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-08-24
THE CROP SITUATION.
Many south Dakota Farmers Much Better
OF Than They Feared-A Few Notieabie
Instances of Good Yields.

Instances of Good Yields.
A Chamberlain correspondent OF the
Minneapolis Journal, who has lnvestl-
gated the crop yield OF the state quite
closely, says:
Advices received from various portions
OF South Dakota show that notWlth-
standing the severe drouth tins season
there are many farmers throughout the
state who have drawn prizes IN the great
crop lottery oi this unusual year The
following instances are selected from
| hundreds oi similar cases:
A. I. Sweet, a farmer living IN TIE
northern edge OF lankton county, has
O potato field OF twenty acres on the
| bank OF the Jim river, which he has been
/ irrigating all summer from the jam by
means OF a steam pump. Aiew days ago
he refused an offer ol 5000 Tor the pro-
| duet Of the twenty acres the purchaser
| TO harvest the crop. One acre of corn
was also irrigated by Mr.. Sweet and 1t
now stands twelve leet high.
S. J. Frederiekson, oil Swan Lake
township. Turner county threshed por-
ton OF his wheat and barley crop, and
found that the wheat averaged fliaeen
bushels and the barley eight bushels.
i. T.. Fisher. a Clay county 1arlner, din
his thrcshng Wednesday. oats Slelded
| thirty bushels per acre and wheat tWen-
| ty.
&. A. Garrison, living three miles south
OF Emery. Hanson county, brought TO
Emery a few heads Oh wheat from his
farm that is splendid The heads are
long and well filled, being sown late It
vas not quite ripe He says he has iorty
acres lust like the sample that stands
thick and high on the ground. lie eN-
meets to get at least fifteen bushels per
acre. and the chances are that 1t VIII go
twenty bushels to the acre
Threshers at work in Star prairie
township, Clay county, report that thus
far everything has run satisfactorily 70
both farmers and the threshers lhe
steam thresher seems to have big run
tbis fall The farmers there have some
thing to thresh though the yield IS thin
ner than usual, the quality IS eood
Comparatively speaking, Clay county i
still in the lead
Rev. A. L. Tanner, OF Gayviie, lank
ton county in speaking about crops
saws that one farmer near GayVllle WI
have Z 600 bushels OF oats, and another
has wheat that yielded twenty fy'
bnshe}s to the acre. lie also asserts ina
there will be a very fair yield OF corn II
spite OF the dry weather
+ C. Miller, OF Clay county, reports tn
weld al his oats on the bottom lana 6
he forty five bushels to the acre ana hi
wheat twenty.
" kiider. another resident Q
CLAW county. has harvested and threshet
his wheat, and reports a yield OF =
bushels TO the acre This is not bad 10
an unusually dry year.
lanes Woodcock, OF Badger township
, DAWSON county, has 100 acres OF Whea
which he thinks will yield 10 bushels 7
the acre. He also has 12O acres OF cor
that promises q good crop. =.
lanes ODell, OF the same township
has GO acres OF wheat that he harvtste
recently. He thinks it will average 1ull
10 bushels to the acre.
William O'Del marketed load o. ha
!, in Mitchell which weighed 1850 pound
and was cut from one acre.
! p Fl. Shredder, who owns well IN
nrnved farm seven miles northwest
: White Lake. says his corn shocking TN
~. and that his wheat will go from t
q 10 bushels per acre.
w. C. Thompson says that Fall Rive
. !, county is going to have the biggest GRO
i of corn it has eyer had. Recently !
: finished stacking his wheat, winch
. . estimates will yield 16 bushels to Il
. acre, and Manning Meserve is now ma
: yesting oats in the same county th'
will pan out about the same: )
In many localities wheat has been u !,
proving ever since harvest ended.
fore that event there was not going
be enough wheat to bread the farmer
: but now Is and 25 bushels per ac
/. agriculturists run against the he'
4, corner.