Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-02
THRESHING RETURNS
FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
Farmers All Over the State Are
Busy With Threshers, Which
Show a Good Yield.
WHEAT RUNS 8 TO rs BUSHELS
That Grain Will Average About 13
Bushels of Good Grndc--Oats
Show Up About 30 lush
~eIs-Barlcy Fine.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 26.-The past
two weeks have been the busiest
which the farmers OF South Dakota
have ever experienced. Harvest has
been concluded in the several locali-
ties where wheat cutting commenced
late, and is now practically completed
throughout the state. During the past
ten days hundreds Of threshing ma
| chimes have been taken TO the farms OF
! South Dakota and all of them are now
rapidly pounding out the grain when
will bring the farmers OF the state
millions Of dollars. In many locall-
ties some threshing Of wheat and oats
already has been completed ana the
results shown are interesting.
H.. Il. Kibbee, a Hanson county farm
er. obtained an average of AS bushels
Of oats per acre.
or the reported wheat yields in Nc
Cook county Daniel Bartholow OBJ
tanned an average OF l3 bushels per
acre; =. G.. Swanson, IL bushels, Us
car Libby 1s, Gapp Bros. -.
Chris Jaasmann, of Bon
county, thrcshed some oats, Whlch
yielded 40 bushels to the acre.
Reports from Rondcll state that for
Nv acres of wheat on the Strong place
Welded rs bushels per acre 1hls
wheat was on summer fallow. The
berry is shrunkenNin many places IN
that locality. .
NJ. +. Cunning was one of the first
farmers i'm Turner county TO thresh.
His fall blowing wheat yielded ~
bushels per acre, and his cornstalk
wheat 6 bushels.
DIR, GottheIf, who had in consider
able wheat near Parker reports an av-
crage yield of Is bushels per acre. II
graded No. 1. Nicls Johnson's wheat
near Parker averaged IL bushels to the
acre and his oats 30. He was in the
wind-stricken district. A. J. Peters,
eight miles northeast Of Parker,
threshed out 1000 bushels Of oats from
twenty acres, an average of 30 bushels
per acre.
Between 10 and - bushels was the
yield Of wheat on the Danforth farm,
in Turner county.
In the vicinity Of Garryowen, Union
county, oats is yielding from so to 50
bushels per acre, and wheat is averag-
ing from g to ~ bushels.
Some wheat has been received at
Mellctte which weighed SIS pounds
per bushel, graded No ! northern and
yielded Is bushel per acre.
One tract OF twenty acres on the
Houghen farm, near Wilmot, threshed
out an average OF 90 bushels Of wheat
TO the acre.
Thomas Chalcraft, Of Henry town
ship, Brown county, thrcshed out $40
bushels OF wheat, which averaged PC
bushels to the acre.
Peter Lundgren, living near Mt. Yer
non, had one piece Of wheat which ay-
eragod ~ hushelG por oero.
II. Miller. of Fairview, obtained an
average Of IA IL bushels OF wheat per
acre. His either crops also turned out
good.
The wheat yield on Henry Lewis
farm, near Plankinton, was about II
bushels per acre. while oats yielded
only about Is bushels TO the acre.
The pest wheat yield reported at
Trip thus far was threshed by Ev.
Morris, and averaged 16 bushels per
acre.
James Keegan, n farmer living near
Madison, has threshed some of his
wheat, which averaged about 12 bush
els to the acre.
Wheat in Hanson county is turning
out MS well as could be expected. A. II.
Belts threshcd his crop, averaging
about 16 bushels 10 the acre.
In the vicinity Of Alexandria wheat
- H.. IlaI-AA c,n.., ,.A.,4 a1-a, a. .
bushels to the acre. On the Belts
place il averaged Is bushels. Very few
oats have been threshed thus far, but
the yield is the largest in years.
Wheat thresing near Violin and Gay
Vile indicates a good state of affairs.
Several farmers who have threShed re-
port the yield MS follows: Halvor Hin
seth, 10 bushels TO the acre; Charles
Arkwright, 1917 bushels.
The largest yield of wheat report
ed from Woonsocket Is s bushels to
the acre, and the highest % bushels.
From n five and three-fourths acre
field Of wheat l.. Ondell, II Sphinx coun-
~ farmer, received an average Of 10
bushels per acre, which graded No. I.
II. G. Killion, on Lake Madison, has
threshed oats Of very good quality,
which averaged GO bushels per acre.
He threshed twenty-four acres of
wheat and got i20 bushels, or 17R
bushels to the acre.
The first threshing report from the
vicinity Of Washington ONE from Al
bert link, in Viola township. His
wheat went 10 bushels to the acre.
The yield Of wheat in Moody county
is fully as good as expected, ranging
from Is to % bushels per acre, and the
grade is better than expected. John
+. Roberts, living south of Flandrcau,
threshed some barley and oats, the
former averaging 40 bushels per acre.
Jay Manson, a grain buyer at Elan
dreau, says he has thus far taken in
upwards of 5000 bushels of new wheat,
which averaged from IL to II bushels
per acre. Most Of the wheat grades
No. 1 and ..
Wheat which has been threshed in
the neighborhood of Irene has yielded
an average of 10 bushels per acre.
Some of the farmers in the vicinity
of Alcester threshed from the shock.
Yields are reported at from 10 to Is
bushels Of wheat per acre.
The first field Of wheat in the vicin-
itv of Revillo to be threshcd entire
yielded a little over Is bushels TO the
acre.
The first grain threshed in the vicin-
of Garretson was a forty-acre field