Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-24
THE GOOD TIMES ARE THERE
Returns From the South Dakota
Harvest Fields.
Wonderful Yields OF Wheat From all
Parts of the State-The CONNER
ciaI II Thick i'm
the Land.

Chamberlain, s. D., Aug. 23.-To say sim
NV that the people Of South Dakota ara
iuhiiant over the result Of this seasons
crop would be drawing ii very mild. WhilG
in some few narrow sections crops Wefd
badly damaged by drouth early In the
season, the crop in the state generally ~
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 10y TN
large number OF travelling men now scep
daily in every town. Last year travelling
men were rarely seen in many OF the
towns. while now IA small army Of them
have been turned loose 10 secure the in.
creased business ia the towns. Merchants
who had permitted their stocks to ran
down during the quiet times are now M
creaslng stocks TO meet the brisk demand
and signs OF renewed prosperity are APP
parent ON every hand. The foIlowliIs cIoI
paragraphs, selected at random from the
weekly press of various portions or the
state, show the reason why the people OF
South Dakota are rejoicing.
A thirty acre piece OF wheat on me Doie
farm in Meckling township. Gay county
has been thrcshcd and the threshers claim
1t went A. bushels to the acre. Manager
Meek Is more modest and says 10 bushels
to the acre is what the grain averaged.
q. w. Snow Of Springfield reports tWei-
ty-iiye acres Of wheat that. yielded 2si2
bushels, machine measure, which Is e4ual
to 30 bushels or more by weight.
Martin Roose, living west of Tyndall,
reports GAG bushels of wheat grown on
eight acres of land. This is nearly 81 bush
". f.. Mayer Of Wakonda gives it as his
opinion that oats in Star township VIII aN-
eTage 60 bushels per acre, net weight. lie
says that not more than half enough rain
has fallen.
Benjamin Tice, a Clay county farmer;
o. l4.,L- 49,. -.1 . lfIuhnlG nf
wheat. He thinks his oats will go 30
bushels per acre.
Union county is banking on 20 bushels
Of corn to the acre. Clay county expects
TO see tina and go it five better.
Bagstad 4 Aasoth of Gayville write that
they have finished thrcshing a ffty acre
ricce of wheat that measured from the
machine Silg bushels and weighed 80 bush
els per acre and grades No. |. This IL only
a fair sample Of the yield Of wheat In that
locality this year,
Mike Refers, residing in Hanson county,
threshed his twcnty-threc acres OF wheat
the other day. lie got 1872 bushels. which
is ID pretty fair yield. The berry is plump
one field Of wheat on August Eckert's
farm northwest of Tyndall averaged 20
bushels. q second field = bushels ana q
oat crop yielded from 40 to 90 bushels per
acre.
OF 2Si2 bushels of wheat per acre on IA por-
ton Of one of SNOW ~ GroOts farms which
he has been working.
In Hutchinson county Charles Terry and
J. Sipos' wheat went % bushels per acre.
NJ. l.. Bohb, II Dawson county farmer.
threshed his wheat and oats last week.
The former returned ~ bushels per acre.
and the latter 80 bushels.
h. T., Mylan's 100 acre wheat field in
Dawson county averaged 10 bushels per
acre. sixty acres of II war iinc but the
other forty brought down the average.
NJ. r.. Hit, one of the prosperous farm
crs of Hancock ownship, Bon Homme
county, VIII market l,5G0 bushels Of wheat
this fall.
A. r. sullivan is busy ',neehing the
wheat from his - acre wheat field IN
Minnchaha county. At last accounts he
was only half through and had 900 bush
els. 1t will average July % bushels to the
acre.
The wheat raised on c.. w. Evans place
in Hutchinson county yielded over Il
Christ. Hampister of Yankton county
says that a field OF his containing 2Sj acres
averaged OF wheat - bushels per acre.
Thershine IL just about commencing in
Grant county. Andrew Stevenson had
eighty acres Of wheat that he thought
turned out q bushels. j. T.. PeIsey
threshed "A small lot that ne would have
been satisfied with l6 bushels and IL too
Went % bushels. Grain in the northern
part of Grant will probably be better than
that in the southern part.
j. T.. Campbell last week threshed 5000
bushels of wheat and 1000 bushels Of oats
AT his Shadcland farm in Bon iionme
county.
A. j. Cook. north OF Springfield. has one
OF the finest stack yards TO be seen In the
state. over forty stacks, mostly wheat,
are grouped around his barnyard.
Louis Johnson has about completed
stacking on his Lincoln county farm. He
has ninety acres Of wheat instack that he
thinks is certainly good for - bushels or
more per acre.
James Kimball, a Hanson county farm
or, says he has $50 acres of wheat in one
lump and l20 In another. His largest field
he thinks viii average at least IL bushels
per acre, but with any kind of a favorable
season in that section woul have turned
out at least - or 30 bushels per acre.
In Lincoln county the reports from the
threshing machines are coming In slowly.
The average yield is up to what has been
estimated, wheat from 20 to - bushels per
acre and oats from 40 to 80 busels per acre,
while a few fields are turning out an un-
precedented yield. Harm Sneiderman got
$50 bushels from ten acres, over 80 bushels
TO the acre: those ten acres, however, were
a favored tract and the rest of his wheat
ground will average about ~ bushels TO
the acre. John Paul threshed 400 bushels
of wheat from eleven sacks Of seed.
In order to take care of the first grain
shipments the Milwaukee company has
distributed 40 empty ears on the Iowa
and Dakota division In this state, and 1860
on the Dakota and Sioux City division.