The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-08-19
WHEAT HARVEST
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Estimate From Various Parts o.
the State Are for an Aver
age Yield.
FROM EIGHT TO TWENTY BUSHELS
Wrctched Weather Spoiled Excel.
lent Chances for a Bumper
Crop---Wheat Grades
Fairly Well.

Sioux Falls, s. d., Aug. 16.-Reports
received here from various portions Of
South Dakota vary somewhat as to the
probable wheat yields, In some in
stances it being claimed that the in
jury in some sections by dry weather
will no prove us great as was feared.
Wheat harvest has been completed in
many parts of the state, and this week
will see all of this years wheat crop
gathered. The following crop items
have been selected at random, and ac.
%curatelN show the conditions in the
localities covered:
In the vicinity of Bradley wheat har-
vest is in full blast, and the crop is the
finest that locality has had for several
years.
Practically all the wheat in Moody
county has been cut. a. few of the
farmers have some grain threshed.
More or less of the wheat is shrunken,
and the grade will be affected thereby,
but not a small per cent will be of u
No. l grade.
In the vicinity of Alexandria, Han
son county, small grain is all cut and
stacking is in order. The estimate of
the wheat yield varies greatly. In
some instances it will go as low as
$ bushels to the acre and in others as
high as 20.
Many of the farmers in the vicinity
Of Alpena, Jerauld county, say the
wheat crop in that section will be fully
as good as the crop of last year.
Around Aberdeen it is said that since
farmers have got well into the harvest
little is heard about shrunken wheat
but that most all are satisfied that the
sample will be much better than has
been anticipated.
j. w. Guhin. of Eureka, says: There
will be more grain handled at this
point this coming season than was
handled during the season of 1892,
when there was shipped from Eureka
5000 cars of grain, and the sales
showed 1900, 900 bushels of wheat mar
keted here. The grade, however, will
not be as good.
In the vicinity Of Henry, Codington
county, the crop will be an average
one. a conservative estimate is that
wheat will average about twelve to
thirteen bushels per acre. The grain
will hardly be up to the standard, ow-
ing to a larger per centage of shrunk-
en- grain than usual.
In the neighborhood Of Dell Rapids.
Minnehaha county. some of the wheat
was badly crinkled and made the work
of cutting II little slow. Oats stood up
in good shape generally. The yield of
wheat will be fair to good and the
quality better than was expected. The
yield will probably be in the neighbor-
hood of fifteen bushels to the acre.
Oats, barley and flax will be an aver
crop. Corn is doing well. and it
now looks as if the corn crop will be
a good one unless caught by early
frosts.
Speculation is rife in Marshall coun-
ty as to the average wheat yield
throughout the country. Some farm
ers have stated that four bushels will
be the average. while others place it as
high as twelve bushels.
Around Scotland, Bon Homme coun-
ty. the small grain is nearly all in the
shock. The yield of all kinds of small
grain will be very fair. and the pros
poets for corr are immense.
Hand county's crop of grain is pro-
since 1892. Estimates place the wheat
yield all the way from ten to twenty
five bushels per acre.
Some few cases of threshing are re-
ported. Walter Nellis, a Bon Hommc
county farmer. threshed thirty acres
of wheat. which averaged 10 3-4 BUSH
els per acre, and graded No. 2. James
Quinn. a farmer living near Artesian,
Sanborn county, is thrashing out part
of his wheat crop. and finds that it is
yielding Is bushels per acre and
grading No. 1. Martin Martinson. a
Moody county farmer. has threshed
some barley. the average yield being
about 40 bushels per acre.