The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-08-07
hRESHER RETURNS
i Give BIG YIELDS
buth Dakota's Harvestls Full
ly Up to Estimates
Made Early.
klMPER CROP CERTAIN
DmpER CROP CERTAIN II
heat Estimate Is Put at $4,000, 900
EBushels-Sonne Barley and Oats
Go Over 60 Bushels to the
Acre.

XeiOuX Falls, >. D., aug .o.--teepOTIS
&, all parts of the state indicate that
cept where injured by hail the yield Of
Heat and small grain will be .one of the
IA test in the history of the state.
wheat harvest is now in progress in
southern part of the state, and will
Come general in the northern portion
thin a week or ten days. Estimates of
Total wheat yield of $4,000, 600 bushels for
state are regarded as conservative.
Diving to the warm weather early last
Eek grain ripened very rapidly, and
Erme-s have been pushed to their utmost
harvest it, In many sections the grain
very heavy. Returns from early
reshing bear out the estimates that the
pp is one of the largest in the history
South Dakota. Joseph Zelinka, living
X miles south of Tyndall. mas theshed
me of his oats and winter wheat. The
It's yielded fifty-six bushels per acre, and
e winter wheat sixteen bushels to the
Re.
Near Alcester Daniel Thomas threshed
riley which yielded twenty-four BUSH
s per acre. Another farmer had a field
barley which yielded thirty-two BUSH
to the acre. Winter wheat on the
*rm Of Charles Finn, also near Alcester,
keraged seventeen bushels per acre.
lin the vicinity of Geddes barley is rum
Ing from forty-two to fifty bushels to
he acre. Near Platte fed of oats av-
Eaged over seventy-seven bushels per
$ere, while another field yielded a little
yer eighty-two bushels to the acre. For
acres of mlllet near Bartholdi yielded
bur tons to the acre.
&The first barley threshing near Emery
Moved a yield of a little more than six
E-two bushels per acre and rye thirty
tushels.
$The first threshing report from the vi,
Entity of Fulton comes from the farm of
q Dickinson, whose oats yielded over
2ighty-five bushels per acre.
Sin the vicinity of Harrison the thresh.
hg machines which already are at work
re turning out barley which averages
&bout forty bushels to the acre.
Some ry and barley has been threshed
"a the vicinity of Ethan. The barley
bowed an average yield of sixty bushels
Der acre. II. H. Smith, near Yanlton,
<hreshed winter wheat which averaged
welve bushels per acre. The yield would
have been much greater had not the seed
Deem somewhat poor.
q One field of barley near Canistota yield
ed, according to the threshing returns,
Bixty bushels per acre. In that locality
barley is plump, but badly off color.
a In the vicinity Of Woonsocket the yield
pf wheat will run all the way from fifteen
b twenty-five bushels per acre, oats from
thirty to sixty and other grains in pro-
portion.
Around Milbank conservative estimates
place the yield of wheat at twenty bush
els per acre for the county, while some
Fields will yield from thirty to thirty-five
bushels to the acre. The yield of oats will
average not far from fifty bushels, and
4iaX from twelve to sixteen bushels.
Near Cavour a field of oats was
Ehreshed and showed an average yield Of
sixty-t1ve bushels per acre. 1t is believed
pther fields in that locality will run as
nigh as seventy-five and eighty bushels to
Ehe acre. Barley, in the same locality,
Hhreshed out fifty-fve bushels per acre.
Farmers living in the vicinity of Beres-
ford estimate that wheat in that section
Evil not average more than eight bushels
per acre, but that barley and oats will
pc bumper yield. Corn is the principal
Ecrop in that locality, and will be an i'm
Fnense crop if frosts hold off as late as
Busual.
i In the region around Mitchell many
Ff1elos of wheat will yield as high as thtr-
$ty bushels to the acre or better. None
Eo1 the wheat is expected to yield less
Hhan eighteen bushels.
Many fields of oats in Gregory county
.are expected to yield as high as 100 bush
Eels per acre, while wheat, 1t is estima ted,
Iwill yield twenty-five bushels to the acre.
I'm sorle wheat fields around Scotland the
ssneads are we'll filled, while in others the
Eneads appear to have been blighted from
stoo much rain followed by hot weather
EFsuli 1t is believed the yield will compare
very favorably with that of former sea-
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1t is expected that many fields of oats
sih Hanson county will yield fully ninety
Soushels per acre. In many localities bar
Eiey Is being threshed from the shock.
Corn is making a really wonderful
ssroWth and will be large crop through.
fout the state unless early and killine
slfosts are experienced A month or sc
ago 1t was freely predicted that the corr
crop because of the late spring and un
f1avofaple conditions during the early por
sloh OF the growing season, would not be
lar .s enough along to escape serious i'll
jury by frosts, but prospects were never
more favorable than now for an irnmen &
AN AWFUL ACCIDENT,
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