Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-07-18
GRAIN NOTES.
Something About the Appear.
anCe of the Wheat
Fields.
No Uniformity in the Yield
Moisture Disappear
ing Rapidly.


Moisture Disappear
ing Rapidly.
j. A. Buchanan says grain IS looking
bad in the vicinity OF Buchanan and be.
lieves that the average for the county
will not exceed 10 bushels. The grain
seeded before May lS, is in bad shape.
The early rains made the wheat produce
surface roots only and not the long tap
root which reaches down deep IN the soil
to draw up moisture from the subsoil
and the grain is suffering in conse-
quence. Potatoes are looking we'll and
will make good crop.
Commissioner Leisch says that the
board was making trip into the south
ern part ot this county last week and
near the LsMoure county line. Grain
is getting very dry; many oats fields will
not be worth cutting AID wheat, even Oh
summer fsllow ground is showing the
effects OF drouth. North OF the North
ern Pacific track grain 10 some better
but without rain soon it will be badly
hurt.
Sunday morning q shower foil near
Bloom and extended east some distance.
While it was only on small portion OF
the county, yet the fields fortunate in
getting the rain already show the help
1t did.
Wheat that has dry leaves and appears
to be rapidly going to pieces will gener-
ally be found to have the stalk green
and still furnishing nourishment to the
heads. IT rain or cool weather comes
much grain can be matured from fields
that now look in bad way.
Monday, the 18th, was not severe
day on grain, and Tuesday the weather
while dry was cool. The next ten days
will decide the fate OF many fields for
better or worse.
Near Montpelier and Ypsilanti a
heavy rain fell July 4. It was a cloud
burst for all reports says that enough
rain has fallen there to make the CROP
One farmer reports, says Elmer Rives,
that his garden could not be seen for the
water standing on It. Another man
stated there must have been at least six
inches OF rainfall in few hours. The
area covered was considerable.
North Of the railroad track near
Spir1twood lake and east to Barnes
county the country needs rain badly.
Judge Rose, Fred Fancher and others
will have some good wheat and some
that will not be cnt from present appear
ances. A wook ago the poorest fields OF
today we're thought good for Is or 20
bushels average.
The yield Of grain will be very un-
even. A few farmers who had the bene-
fit of the right time OF seeding, Of strong
soil, good seed, and showers will get a
fair crop if nothing specially disasterous
occurs from now to harvest. Others will
lose tLeir seed and labor, and get moth
ing back. The yield will be spotted,
good in small places, and Of little value
in others, and none in others. In the
same fields will be noticed spots varying
from half an acre or more to few feet
in extent where the wheat stands tall
and green with long, we'll filed heads.
Moisture for some reason had gathered
there, while the rest of the field shows
how it had disappeared IN the reduced
length Of the stalk, short heads, dead
leaves and general appearance.
Those who sowed the Buchan seed
this year say they will make money by
it. The variety stands drouth better
than the velvet cheff and other kinds.
The corn crop will not amount to
much this season. A number OF flax
fields show the mustard crop to be a
strong competitor.
Oats are in all conditions of growth,
same as wheat. Some fields are heading
out with short straw and small heads.
Other fields of larger growth show many
blighted heads. Only few good, strong,
green fields are to be seen.
At Dawson some farmers have har-
vested their rye and barley, it being at
least two weeks earlier than the harvest
season has ever been opened since the
settlement of the county. Early sown
barley will make large yield. Rye was
considerably damaged by the light frost
that came June q. In that immediate
vicinity the recent drouth has damaged
wheat about 25 per cent; in other por-
tions Of the county fully 80 per cent.
Died at Phoenix.
Information was received Tuesdayfrom