The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-08-31
THE GOOD TIMES ARE THERE
Returns From the South Dakota
Harvest Fields,
Wonderful Yield. of Wheat From MI
Parts of the stats-The CONNER
clal Drummer Is Thick in
tile Land.

Chamberlain, s. d., Aug. 23.-To say sim
ply that the people of South Dakota are
jubilant over the result of this seasons
crop would be drawing 1t very mild. Whlle
In some few narrow sections crops wera
badly damaged by drouth early In the
season. the crop in the state generally Ia
the best for many years and the farmers
have been encouraged to such an extent
that they will take hold of next seasons
work with renewed energy. The changed
condition of affairs Is noticeable by tht
large lumber of travelling men now seen
daily In every town. Last year travelling
mea were rarely seen in many of the
TOWING, while now a small army of them
have been turned loose to secure the IN
creased business in the owns. Merchants
who had permitted their stocks to run
down during the quiet times are now In
creasina stocks to meet the brisk demand
and igns of renewed prosperity are ap-
parent on every hand. The following crop
paragraphs, selected at random from the
weekly press of various portions OF the
state. show the reason why the people OF
South Dakota are rejoicing.
A thirty acre piece of wheat on the Dole
farm in Mecklins township. Clay county,
has been threshed and the threshers clam
1t Went 45 bushels 10 the acre. Manager
Meek is more modest and says AZ bushels
G. w. SNOW OF Springfield reports twen-
ty-Gve acre of wheat that yielded ssi
bushels, machi..s measure s., S. w y Is equal
Martin Roose. living west OF Tyndall.
| reports 2i8 bushels Of wheat grown on
eight acres OF land. This is nearly u BUSH
els per acre,
vi, II. Mayer of Wakonda gives it as his
opinion that oata in Star township VIII ay-
erage 90 bushels per acre, net weight. lie
says that not more than half enough rain
has fallen.
benjamin Ttce, a Clay county farmer
wheat. He thinks his oats viii go 50
bushels per acre.
Union county is banking on 70 bushels
2f corn to the acre I ,, Gay Sef county expects
Bagstad 4 Aaseth Of Gayville write that
they have finished threshing a nifty acre
machine s4lla bushels nnd weighed 50 bush
els per acre and grades No. /. This Is only
. fair sample of the yield of wheat in that
locality this year.
Mike Refers. residing in Hanson county,
threshed his twenty-three acres of wheat
the other day. He got 4S2 bushels. which
is q pretty fair yield. The berry is plump
one field of wheat on August Eckert,s
farm northwest of Tyndall averaged, ~
third field nearly 30 bushels per acre; His
oat crop yielded from 40 to ~ bushels per
acre.
of 2Sia bushels of wheat per acre on a por'-
ton Of one of Snow & Groot's farms which
he has been working.
]. Sipes' wheat went % bushels per acre.
NJ. L.. Bobb. a Dawson county farmer.
threshed his wheat and oats last week.
The former returned l71a bushels per acre,
and the latter SO bushels.
b.. +. Mylan's lD acre wheat lleld III
Dawson, county averaged 10 bushels per
other forty brought down the average.
NJ. Z. HIT, one of the prosperous farm
crs of hancock township. Bon Homme
\ pntptuA yyt11. market I E1 hlgh4'S. of whpAf
this fall.
A: R. sullivan is busy th1sihi as;a the nc
M~innehaha county. At last a]eeount he
was only half through and had 1880 bush
els. 1t will average fully % bushels TO the
The wheat raised on G. w. Evans place
bushels to the acre.
averaged OF wheat IS bushels per acre.
Thershing is Just about commencing ir
eighty acres of wheat that he thought
would go about II to Ii bushels. but II
turned out e 5Y ISL ia, H. J.: w b; Pf has,
been satisfied with l6 bushels and it toe
went % bushels, Grain in the northern
part of Grant will probably be better thar
that in the southern part.
j. T. Campbell last week threshed $50
bushels of wheat and 1000 bushels of oat:
at his Shadcland farm in Bon Hommt
SoLillS .-
A. j. Cook, north of Springfield, has on
of the finest stack yards to be seen in tn,
state. Over forty stacks, mostly wheat
are grouped around his barnyard.
Louis johnson has about completed
stacking on his Lincoln county farm. n,
has ninety acres of wheat instacll that h,
thinks is certainly good for % bushels o.
more per acre.
James Kinlball. a Hanson county farm
err, says he has $50 acres of wheat in on
lump and 100 in another. His largest iielt
he thinks will average at least II bushel
per acre. but with any kind of a favorabl,
season in that section woul have turned
out at least % or 30 bushels per acre.
In Lincoln county the reports from tn,
threshing machines are coming in slowly
The average yield is up to what has BEEF
estimated, wheat from 20 to % bushels pc
acre and oats from 40 to 80 busels per acre
While a few fields are turning out an un
precedented yield. Harm Sneiderman go
1856 bushels from ten acres, over 80 bushel
to the acre: those ten acres, however, wer
a favored tract and the rest of his whea
ground will average about 20 bushels t
the acre. John Paul threshed 400 bushel
Of wheat from eleven sacks of seed.
In order to take care of the first grail
shipments the Milwaukee company ha
distributed lao empty cars on the low
and Dakota division in this state. and 16
on the Dakota and Sioux City division.