The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-08-19
WHAT THE TBRESH|NG
MACHINE CAN Tell.
Yield Of South Dakota Grain
Fields Thus Far Reported
Good.
BARLEY, OATS AND WHEAT
Former 10 Averaging From 80 to 40
Huchelo Per Acre; Oats Is Heavy;
Wheat VIII Go as High as
Is Bushels.

Sioux Falls, q. d., Aug. 12.-Thrcsh-
ing machines are commencing 10 iell
their stories IN many localities in the
southern halt of South Drkota. During
this week threshtnG VIII also commence
in many rnrts at the northern half.
Early predictions IN 70 the generally
good condition Of the crops OF South
Dakota are fully borne out by the good
yields OF grain which has thus Ear been
thrcshed.
A Moody county farmer named =, a.
5VauEfce thresbed 1,I20 bushels OF bar
ley from fifty acres Of iand--evct 20
farm of RI. d. VanNice. In the Same
county, threshed out an average of II
bushels Der acre. u Is conservatively
estimated that the barley crop of the
entire county will average between 20
and 40 bushels to tbs acre,
Jacob Smith, Of Dawson county,
lthreshed his wksat crop, which yielded
early sown and because OF this fact est
capped the rust which badly injured
surrounding fields of late Gown wheat.
s. It, GoodykoontZ, who OWNS n farm
In the same county. estimates that his
barley Will average 20 bushels per acre,
and his oats 30. He places his wheat
yield at u bushels to the acre, owing
]. j. Mccormick, OF Manson county,
threshed LOO bushels OF harley from
about one and one-half acres OF land
Threshfng machines which are oper-
ating In the Vicinity Of Memo are tell
ing good story. One farmer reports
that his barley threshed out 20 bushels
per acre. Barley on an adjoining farm
averaged As bushels TO the acre. Some
of the wheat fields In that locality WIFI
yield finely, while others, owing to
rust, Will have larger straw stacks than
Yields OF grain. Oats Ia ouch a heavy,
crop that some OF the farmers had to
set the first row OF shocks out in the
road In preference TO renting land on
which to shock their oats after cutting.
Chris Mettler living near Memo, Is the
first In that section to finish stacking
wheat. He has n new variety which
was not injured by rust, and which Will
yield at least 25 bushels per acre
The first oats threshed In Charles
Mix county, 30 far as reported, was
raised on the Gordon farm. near Platte,
and yielded fifty bushels per acre. E.
Reading. farmer living near Egan,
threshed oats raised on his farm which
averaged fifty-eight bushels to the acre.
Linn Beavers. residing near Jeffer-
son, In the extreme southeastern part
of the state, threshed winter wheat and
reports that 1t yielded an average of
twenty-four bushels per acre. 1t is of
fine quality. sound and hard. Fills oats
averaged sixty-two bushels to the acre,
which is the greatest yield of this grain
yet reported anywhere in the state.
Threshing is well under way near
9ankton. and large yields are reported.
oats is yielding an average OF fifty
bushels per acre and upwards. Most
of the oats tests thirty-two pounds per
bushel, which is two pounds better
than oats in that vicinity went last
year. Wheat is not yielding SO well.
having been injured to some extent by
rust
Fields that Indicated yields of at least
eighteen bushels per acre are thresh-
Ing out only from fourteen to fifteen
bushels. which shows. however, that
the damage by rust was not great The
wheat crop in that locality, notwth-
standing rust injury, will be up to the
average of former years in that part
IF the state.