Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-23
I'll CROP SITUATION.
Many South Dakota Farmers Much Rel,
or Than They Feared-A Few Notlnl
Instances of Good Yields.

A Chamberlain correspondent Of h
Minneapolis journal, who has invest
gated the crop yield of the state Or,
closely, says:
Advices received from various portos
ii South Dakota show that notwgl
standing the sever drouth this seasu
there are many farmers throughout ID
state who have drawn prizes in the grs
crop lottery OF this unusual year. n,
following instances are selected iron
hundreds OF similar cases:
A. T. Sweet, q farmer living in N
northern edge of Yankton county, ha
a potato field OF twenty acres on ID
bank OF the Jim river, which be has bed
irrigating all summer from the Jimbl
means OF a steam pump. few daysasl
he refused an offer OF $1,000 for the pro
duct OF the twenty acres, the purchase
to harvest the crop. One acre Of ci
was also irrigated by Mr.. Sweet and
now stands twelve ieet high.
S. J. Frederickson, OF Swan Lab
township, Turner county threshold POI
ton of his wheat and barley crop, Gl
found that the wheat averaged fitted
bushels and the barley eight bushels.
j. +. Fisher. a Clay county farmer, d|
his threshing Wednesday. Oats yjedI
thirty bushels per acre and wheat tVd
ty.
q. A.. Garrison, living three miles sOgd|
OF Emery, Hanson county, brought \
Emery IA few heads of wheat from n
farm that is splendid. The heads a
long and well filled; being sown late 1
was not quite ripe. He says b haslorl
acres just like the sample that stsn1
thick and high on the ground. he 4
poets to get at least fifteen bushels n
acre, and the chances are that it will q
twenty bushels to the acre.
Threshera at work in Star PrarI
township, Clay county, report that tl1
far everything has III satisfactory
both farmers and the threshers. u
steam thresher seems to have a Dig Y
this fall. The farmers there have sCa1
thing to thresh' though the yield Is tmI
ner than usual, the quality IS g@i
Comparatively speaking, Clay coaHs
still in the lead.
Rev. A. L. Tanner, OF Gayville, laAI
ton county, in speaking about coj
seys that one farmer near GayvEle !
have 5000 bushels OF oats, and anoV
has wheat that yielded twenVlI
bushels to the acre. He also assertsI
there will be a very fair yield Of c"i
spite OF the dry weather.
j. &. Miller, OF Clay county, repotrs
yield of his oats on the bottom lang
be forty-five bushels to the acre anu
wheat twenty.
s. w. kilder, another resl1eus
Clay county, has harvested ana ,nles
his wheat, and reports a yieiu
bushels to the acre. This is not V'S
an unusually dry year.
James Woodcock, oil Badger toHpss
Dawson county, has $50 acres OF w.
which he thinks will yield 10 ou'Jpo
the acre. He also has 100 acres op
that promises O good crop.
James O'Dell, OF the same to"ms
has GO acres of wheat that he haI
recently. He thinks it will averas'
10 bushels to the acre. ,dhj
William O'Dell marketed a loau "nr
in Mitchell which weighed 2,Soo y"
and was cut from one acre. Iii
p. IL. Shredder, who owns vs.
proved farm seven miles nor'aNss
White Lake, says his corn Is iooh"s
ly, and that his wheat will go iro~
10 bushels per acre. r,u hid.
w. G. Thompson says thai 100
county is going to have the plsstt
OF corn it has ever had. hteySi
finished stacking his wheat, d
estimates will yield 10 busnes aoW
acre, and Manning Meserve Is
vesting oats in the same coun'
will pan out about the same; hani
In many localities wheat nae
proving ever since harvest enu soipgl
fore that event there was nov k;arvd
be enough wheat to bread lne nsr .
but now Is and 20 bushels M
agriculturists run against
gutherer ON every corner.