Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-08-19
WHAT THE THRESHING
MACHINE GAN TELL
Yield OF South Dakota Grain
Fields Thus Far Reported
Good,
BARLEY, OATS AND WHEAT
Former 10 Averaging From 80 to 40
Bushels Per Acres Oats IL Heavyj
Wheat viii Go as High as !.
rs Bushels.

sioux Falls, y. D., Aug. B-Thresh-
ing machines are commencing 10 tell
their stories IN many localities In the
southern half Of South Dakota. During
this week thrcshipx WIN afro 10
In many parts Of the northern half.
Early predictions as 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
threAhed.
A Moody county farmer named r, A.
vauEice thresheA 1870 bushels Of bar
ley from fifty acYeg Of land--ovef 20
bushels 70 the acre, Barley on b
farm OF H. d. VanNice, IN b same
county, threshed out an average Of 81
bushels per acre. II ~ c~onservatively
estimated that the barley crop Of h
entire county will average between 30
and 40 bushels 70 the acre.
Jacob Smith, Of Dawson county,
threshed HIS wheat crop, which yielded
q bushels per acre. This wheat was
early sown and because Of this fact es-
capped the INST which badly injured
surrounding fields OF late sown wheat,
y. y. Goodykcontz, who own a farm
In the same county, estimates that his
barley Will average 20 bushels per acre,
and his oats 50. He places his wheat
yield at IL bushels 70 the acre, owing
TO injury done by rust.
j. j. Mccormick, Of Hanson county,
threshed LOO bnxhels OF barley from
about one and one-haif acres OF land
ThreShfng machines which are opeT-
atinR In the vicinity of Memo are tell
ing a good story. One farmer reports
that his barley thre9hed III 30 bushels
per acre. Barley ON an adjoining farm
averaged As bushels to the acre. Some
81 the witvnt fteids IN that Locality VIII
yield finely, while others, owing TO
rust, VIII have larger straw stacks thar
yields OF grain Oats IN auch a heavy
crop hat some OF the farmers had to
set the first row OF shocks out m the
road I'm preference to renting land on
which to shock their oats after cutting.
Chris Mettler, living ear Memo, Is the
first In that section to finish stacking
wheat. He has a new variety which
was not Injured by rust. and which Will
yield at least rs bushels per acre.
The first oats threshed Ia Charles
Nix county, so a as reported. was
raised ON the Gordon farm, near Platte,
and yielded fifty bushels per acre. r.
Reading. q farmer living near Egan,
threshed oats raised ON his farm which
averaged fifty-efght bushels TO the acre.
Linn Beavers. residing near Jeffer-
son. In the extreme southeastern part
Of the state, threshed winter wheat and
eports that IL yielded an average or
tweuty-four bushels per acre. IT Is OF
fine quality. sound and hard. His oats
averaged sixty-two bushels to the acre,
which IL the greatest yield OF this grain
yet reported anywhere I'M the state.
ThreshinE Is well under way rear
Yankton, and large yields are reported
Oats il yielding an average OF fifty
bushels per acre and upwards. Most
of the oats tests ~thirty-two pounds per
hushel, which is two pounds better
than oats i'm 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, notwith-
standing rust injury. will be up to the
average Of former years in thai part
of the state.