The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-27

sofa, North Dakota and South Dakott
and sums up his inspection of the croI
yield as follows: Minnesota, acre.
3,325,0C0, yield 10 bushels, total $1,000,
600: North Dakota. the same through
out; South Dakota, acres 100000
average yield Ii bushels, total 35,COO,OOO
This he claims is not as large a crop at
1891 as then all sections were good
while this year there are many portions
which have light crops in the three
states. There is not SO much difficulty
IN estimating the average yield as in
getting at the acreage. We give his ac-
count Of the South Dakota crop IN full
as it is the last and best summing up OF
that subject we shall have this year:
South Dakota has been favored this
year with an excellent crop OF wheat,
taking the crop as a whole. but the
yield is surely behind that of 1891. The
indications are the state has raised &c.
100000 bushels Of wheat from an acreage
Of 3,OOO,OOO. There is no reliable data
ooIdildDlc dS W OOuln DahOth . CIOp
area, and it is necessary to estimate the
average. In this estimate the journal
wishes the acreage to be considered with
the yield; that is to say, with an estima-
ted acreage Of 100000, South Dakota
has raised 10000 900 bushels Of wheat,
or an average Of II bushels for the state.
If developments show the acreage to be
less than 100000, then the total Of
yield will be reduced accordingly. Mr..
Jumper Of Aberdeen makes the acreage
100000; the government says 100000,
which is unquestlonably too low. The
former claims the yield last year was
nearly 100000 bushels, which would be
an average of 3 bushels on a 100000
acreage. Thus would seem to warrant
the use Of this acreage this year., for
there is a small increase Of acreage N the
state this year over last, after allowing
for a considerable reduction in the north.
ern counties, a reduction that has prob.
ably been overestimated, as it has been
in Minnesota and North Dakota. The
acreage is used also for the purpose Of a
test this year, for it is quite important
to know what the wheat acreage Of
South Dakota is. @
ain order that those who have insisted
on short yields this year in some of the
counties may understand that full JUS
tice has been done their claims, a brief
survey Of the crop will be made at this
point. The good crop area begins on the
northeast boundary with Roberts coun-
ty, and goes southwark with the eastern
tier of counties, widening to incluoe
Lake county, and IN the tier south in
Guiding Hanson county, and then running
southwesterly to the Missouri river,
crossing Charles Nix county. This is a
boundary line between good and poor
to fair crops that must not, Of course, he
held to literally. There are fair yields
OF wheat in some of the counties west Of
this line. Codington, KiDgsbury, Ham
lin, Dawson, S%anborn, Day and Brown
counties have fair yields, and in some
sections OF these counties excellent
yielus, but deficiencies in other sections
will not permit of their being graded
above fair. Clark, Sphinx, Beadle, Hyde,
Hand, Hughes and some Of the other
river counties must rank as having Door
yields, and In order to suggest the con-
servatlve estimates made by the Jour
nal Tor these counties, it can be said
that the averages have been placed at 5
70 / bushels, SO that it cannot be said
that the poo condition of crops In these
counties has not been fully recognized.
There Is q healthy section in SPHINX
county about Mellette, where the ceIe-
DRAFTED Hunter irrigated farm ia located
The yield OF which is 81 bushels. But
other sections OF Sphinx county are 80
low IN average that this handsome Weld
Is moi of much avail IN the general sum.
mary. There Is a considerable acreage
10 these counties that will not yield
above 2 and 3 bushels. Lack of rain
accounts for the small yield, together
with a good deal of poor farming.
"1he southern and eastern counties
stand out prominently this year as the
equal OF their prosperous neighbors in
other states. Poor yields are rare this
year, and 1t may almost be said, every
year, for with the exception OF last year,
not for over q decade has there been q
crop failure in southern South Dakota.
1t ls q magnificent country, with the evil
dence OF prosperity at hand 10 we'll
constructed and inviting farm buildings.
There are great crops in Minnehaha
county Sioux Falls) this year. What
the sight was there at harvest time can
be imagined, with yields Of oats reported
over 100 bushels and wheat over so
bushels. And the same is true of Lin.
coin, Turner, Hutchinson, Yankton,
Clay and Union counties, and perhaps
OF one or two others. These counties
have rolled IN a bountiful harvast th;.