The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-08-14
THRESHER Returns
GIVE BIG YIELDS
South Dakota's Harvest Is Full
!y Up to Estimates
Made EARLY.
BUMPER CROP CERTAIN
Wheat Estimate Is Put at $4,000 900
RusheIs-Some Barley and Oats
Go Over 60 Bushels to the
Acre.

from all parts of the state indicate that
except where injured by hail the yield Of
wheat and small grain will be one Of the
greatest ir the history of the state.
Wheat harvest Is now in progress in
the southern part of the state, and will
become general In the northern portion
within week or ten days. Estimates of
total wheat yield Of 50,000OO0 bushels for
the state are regarded as conservative.
Owing to the warm weather early last
week grain ripened very rapidly, and
! farmers have been pushed to their utmost
to harvest it. In many sections the grain
IS very heavy. Returns from early
threshing bear out the estimates that the
crop is one of the largest in the history
Of South Dakota. Joseph Zelinka, living
SIX miles south of Tyndall, mas theshed
. some of his oats and winter wheat. The
| "a is yielded hfty-six bushels per acre, and
The winter wheat sixteen bushels to the
acre.
Near Alcester Daniel Thomas threshed
| barley which yielded twenty-four BUSH
els per acre. Another farmer had a field
IF barley which yielded thirty-two BUSH
els to the acre. Winter wheat on the
farm Of Charles Finn, also near Alcester
averaged seventeen bushels per acre.
In the vicinity of Geddes barley is run
aing from forty-two to fifty bushels to
the acre. Near Platte a field of oats av-
araged over seventy-seven bushels per
acre, while another field yielded a little
over eighty-two bushels to the acre. For
~ acres Of mlllet near Bartholdi yielded
four tons to the acre.
The first barley threshing near Emery
showed yield of a little more than six
ty-two bushels per acre and rye thirty
bushels.
The first threshing report from the vi
! entity of Fulton comes from the farm Of
[. Dickinson whose oats yielded over
sighty-fve bushels per acre.
In the vicinity Of Harrison the thresh-
ing machines which already are at work
IRE turning out barley which averages
about forty bushels to the acre.
! Some ry and barley has been threshed
! n the vicinity of Ethan. The barley
showed an average yield of sixty bushels
!, per acre. HI. H. Smith, near Yank ton.
.hreshed winter wheat which averaged
4 Twelve bushels per acre. The yield would
| have been much greater had not the seed
| oeen somewhat poor
4 One field of barley near Canistota yield
/ I'd, according to the threshing returns,
sixty bushels per acre. In that locality
barley is plump. but badly oS color.
In the vicinity OF Woonsocket the yield
Of wheat will run all the way from fifteen
! 20 twenty-five bushels per acre, oats from
thirty to sixty and other grains in pro-
portion.
I Around Mibank conserva tive estimates
place the yield Of wheat at twenty BUSH
els per acre for the county, while some
4 fields will Yield from thirty to thirty-five
bushels to the acre. The yield of oats will
/ average not far from fifty bushels, and
lax from twelve to sixteen bushels.
! Near Cavour a field OF oats was
shreshed and showed an average yield Of
Sixty-five bushels per acre. 1t is believed
4 other fields in that locality will run as
nigh as seventy-tive and eighty bushels to
The acre. Barley, in the same locality,
/ lhreshed out fifty-five bushels per acre,
Farmers living in the vicinity Of Beres-
| ford estimate that wheat in that section
! will not average more than eight bushels
per acre, but that barley and oats will
be a bumper yield. Corn Is the principal
crop in that locality, and will be an i'm
mense crop If frosts hold off as late as
I usual.
In the region around Mitchell many
fields Of wheat will yield as high as thir-
ty bushels to the acre or better. None
/ of the wheat is expected to yield less
than eighteen bushels.
/ Many fields of oats In Gregory county
are expected to yield as high as 100 bush
els per acre, while wheat, it is estimated,
| will yield twenty-five bushels to the acre
In some wheat fields around Scotland the
heads are we'll filled, while in others the
heads appear to have been blighted from
\ too much rain followed by hot weather
i Still it Is believed the yield will compare
! very fayorably with that of former sea-
sons.
Z. II is expected that many fields of oats
In Hanson county will yield fully ninety
4 bushels per acre. In many localities bar
ley is being threshed from the shock
j Corn Is making a really wonderful
/ growth and will be large crop through
\ out the state unless early and killing
frosts are experienced. A month or so
ago it was freely predicted that the corn
crop, because Of the late spring and un-
favorable conditions during the early por-
ton of the growing season, would not be
far enough along to escape serious III
/ jury by frosts, but prospects were never
more favorable than now for an immen 80
yield.