Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-23
iii CROP SITUATION.
Many South Dakota Farmers Much Bet.
OF Than They Feared-A Few Noti,,u
Instances of Good Yields.

A Chamberlain correspondent Of d
Minneapolis journal, who has invest
gated the crop yield of the state qu,
closely, says:
Advices received from various portiq,
OF South Dakota show that notwyll
standing the severe drouth this seasC1
there are many farmers throughout M
state who have drawn prizesi in the gres1
crop lottery OF this unusual year. Th
following instances are selected irOnI
hundreds OF similar cases:
A. Il. Sweet, n farmer living in lid
northern edge OF Yankton county, had
a potato field OF twenty acres on thJ
bank OF the jim river, which he has bsl|
irrigating all summer from the jim bI|
means OF steam pump. few daysagol
he refused an offer OF $4,000 Tor the pre|
duet OF the twenty acres, the purchase
to harvest the crop. One acre OF corn
was also irrigated by Mr.. Sweet and ID
now stands twelve feet high.
S. j. Frederickson, oil Swan Lake
township, Turner county thresheda pCr!
ton of his wheat and barley crop, and
found that the wheat averaged fifteen
bushels and the barley eight bushels.
j. f. Fisher. a Clay county farmer, did
his threshing Wednesday. Oats yielded
thirty bushels per acre and wheat twel.
ty. -
q. A. Garrison, living three miles south
of Emery, Hanson county, brought 10
Emery a few heads OF wheat from b;
farm that is splendid. The heads an
long and well filled; being sown late II
vas not quite ripe. He says he hasiorty
acres just like the sample that Stands
thick and high on the ground. he ez
poets to get at least fifteen bushels pei
acre, aud the chances are that it Will q
twenty bushels to the acre. .,
Threshers at work in Star Pralrp
township, Clay county, report that thu
far everything has run satisfactory Z
both farmers and the threshers. ID
steam thresher seems to have a big Tu
this fall. The farmers there have SOM
thing to thrcsh' though the yield is tb'l
ner than usual, the quality Is gOOc
Comparatively speaking, Clay county
still in the lead.
Rev. A. L. Tanner, OF Gayville, Yam
ton county, in speaking about crop
says that m farmer near GayylIle vi
have 5000 bushels of oats, and anotn'
has wheat that yielded twenty,m
bushels to the acre. He also assertsu nc
there will be a very fair yield oil corn
spite of the dry weather. !,
j. &. Miller, of Clay county, reports u
yield OF his oats on the bottom land
be forty-tive bushels to the acre ana
wheat twenty.
s. W. Kilder, another resident
Clay county, has harvested and thresp,
his wheat, and reports a yield OF !.
bushels to the acre. This is not BAD j
an unusually dry year. !;
James Woodcock, OF Badger townsnl
Dawson county, has 100 acres oil whe
which he thinks will yield 10 BUSHES
the acre. He also has l20 acres OF "
that promises q good crop. q
James O'Dell, OF the same townsn
has 60 acres oil wheat that he harVesy
recently. He thinks it will average III
10 bushels to the acre. -,
William O'Dell marketed q load DIN
in Mitchell which weighed 2,SSO poun
and was cut IRON one acre. 4.
II. III. Shredder, who owns n wen ;
proved farm seven miles northwest
White Lake, says his corn shocking u
ly, and that his wheat will go IRON 0
10 bushels per acre. ,n.,
w. G. Thompson says that al W.
county is going to have the biggest q
OF corn it has eyer had. Recently
finished stacking his wheat, when
estimates will yield 10 bushels 10
acre, and Manning Meserve is no" !,
yesting oats in the same county v
will pan out about the same.
In many localities wheat has peeh
proving ever since harvest ended:
fore that event there was not goipe
be enough wheat to bread the iarnl'
but now Is and % bushels per =
agriculturists run against the JIG
gatherer ON every corner.