Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-08-29
GRAIN THREsH|NC BEGUN.
Good Weather the Past Week
Has Helped Farm
Work.
Harvesting Mostly Overtime
Grain in Excellent
Condition..

Condition.
Last week and so far this week the
weather has been generally favorable for
continuous farm work. A little rain
Friday last only served TO suspend
operations short time, and this week
the conditions for cutting and threshing
have been especially favorable. The
days have been cool yet sufficiently warm
to r,pen any late grain. There is some
complaint of grain shelllng but no more
than customary. The difficulty with
smut is now to be met and determined.
A good many farmers are certain to lose
sgrsde and likely several grades from
this draw back. The curious feature OF
smut is that it occurs in bearded wheat
the most. Next season unusual precsu-
ton will have to be taken with seed.
About all the cutting will be finished
this week.
ThreshinR machines are just getting
to work. Oats, barley, rye and wheat
will make good yields, OF course. Many
felds will vary greatly IN both yield and
quality, but it looks as If the average
wheat yield would be 10 or II bushels
over the county, which is excellent.
Fields already threshed Of small extent
have gone from Is to % and as high rs
25 bushels per acre. Next week The
Alert will be able to tell more about it.
The gram Is mostly cut by binders and
is in good condition for threshing. The
shocks stand thick on the ground and q
drive around the county shows more
signs of prosperity from the crops than
for several years. The good yield will to
a small extent repair the loss ty the low
price.
The rain Friday night, wherever the
fall was as heavy as here, will probably
delay threehing till Monday. East of
the city the fall was much lighter and
little or no inconvenience and delay to
threshipR will result. In the vicinity OF
Albion and F. B. Fancher's farms
threshlng will be general the first OF the
week, when four outfits will begin work.
Only light rain occurred in the
bicinity OF Buchanan and threshl1g was
delayed but few hours. Half an inch
OF rain fell IN jamestown.
West of the city, in the vicinity of
Eldridge, threshing Is now we'll under
way and grain pouring into the station
several Thousand bushels daily. Every
one on the farms, 20 use slang express
zion, is jumping sideways" in the care
of the crops.
A few late fields of gram yet remain
to be cut, but they are the exception.
Cutting is completed and threshing
begun.
Returns are not yet obtainsble on
which to base an average for the county.
It is probable that the result in bushels
will be somewhat larger than expected,
but the returns in big, round dollars,
smaller. Tue berry is uniformly large,
plump. we'll rounded and Of good milling
quality, but the prlce-that's where the
trouble is-and smut. The presence of
smut decreases the grade and what
would otherwise be No. hard wheat
can be cold for but rejected-the very
lowest grade-st loss OF from ten to
twelve cents per bushel. Some grain
has been offered for sale too badly
smutted to even grade rejected" and
has been refused entrance to the ware
house and elevator at any price. No use
can be made OF it in milling. The ex.
pense of putting in and taking off an
average crop can not be secured on $50
wheat. The prevalence of smut in the
county has not been exaggerated in the
least, and the total loss to the farmers, in
this county alone, will be large. In GER
tain localities, where little or no atten-
ton to tie use OF smut preventives
has been paid, the non-existence OF this
fungus seems to be the exception rather
than the rule.
Attorney G. w. Davis of LaMoure,
who was in the city today arguing a
motion 10 chambers before Judge Rose,
says wheat IN LaMoure county is yield
ing somewhat better than expected. In
the southeastern part Of the county,
where badly burned, the yield 10 light, 4
to bushels per acre, and also in the
northeastern part where badly hailed
but in other portions of the county the
yield 10 going to be up to, il not ahead
of, the general average. He mentioned
instances OF 100 acre fields running 20
and 25 bushels per acre, and one 40 acre
summer.fallowed field that yielded it's
owner IS bushels.
John Siebert: Have been threshing
on the farm for several days with Peter
Frisd's machine and the yield is Is
bushels average, the grain being ss usual
Of excellent quality with no smut