The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-08-12
IS NOT SERIOUS
Farmers Have Discovered That
Their Fields Generally
Will Yield Well.
COMPLAINTS OVER STATE
Big Harvest Is Now at Its Height and
Soon the Vast Granary of West
Will Be Supplying the
Markets of the East.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 10-The farm
Frs of South Dakota have in general
discovered that their wheat fields were
not so badly injured as the first re-
ports of rust damage indicated. and
they accordingly have to q great eN-
tent recovered from their scare of a
few days ago oves the rust question.
A good Illustration of how unneces-
sarily many of h farmers We're alarm
ed is furnished by an incident which
occurred In Brown county. y farmer
in. thai county told AN acquaintance
thai he would not cut his crop of
wheat, He declared it had gone to the
dogs. so to speak.
The acquaintance visited the farm
er's fields and examined it carefully,
with the result that it was found the
heads in general contained from fifteen
TO twenty good kernels. Only AN oc-
casional head had been affected by
rust.
A similar condition in wheat fields
near Hudson which We're examined was
revealed-some heads are practically
worthless. while Others are well filled
with nice, plump kernels.
Around MontroSe rust has attacked
wheat n the yield will be affected,
but nevertheless Il fine crop is antici-
pated.
In the vicinity of Madison. Lake
county, damage was don by rust only
in spots.
Not Seriously Damaged.
Although practically all the wheat in
the vicinity of Bryant was affected to
n more or less extent by rust, it is
not thought any of the fields will be a
total loss.
The acreage of wheat in the vicinity
of Dell Rapids is Very light, as the
farmers have come to the conclusion
that wheat raising is not as profitable
as raising barley, oats and corn, so 20
great loss from rust will result to the
farmers of that locality.
Some of the wheat fields around Can
V We're not injured by rust and will
yield a full crop.
Rust is found in abundance In the
wheat fields in the neighborhood of
Willow Lake, and will cut down the
yield.
Some wheat fields near Vienna were
affected to some extent by rust, but it
is the opinion of well posted farmers in
that part of the state that the wheat
crop was so far advanced that the
damage will not be serious.
Some PecuIiarities of Rust.
Farmers in the vicinity of Sisseton
point out some of the pe%culiarities of
the rust visitation. Some fields are
laifiy Ieu Wild IL. while OtlefS IN the
immediate vicinity We're not touched
by the blight at all. In some
instances the rust was confined
to the leaves of the grain, and in these
cases no serious damage was done,
while in other instances the stalks We're
affected and either became so brittle
that, silly hrnLan off by tho
wind or died at the head and dried up.
Many of the farmers in that locality
express the opinion that the reports of
damage have been greatly exaggerated
II that there will vet be a fair crop
TO be harvested.
In the region around DeSmet it has
developed that the rust damage was
Wheat in the country surrounding
Lennon has a good stand, but is rath-
er Door in quality and fields affected by
rust will not yield as we'll as would be
expected, considering the amoun of
straw.
The time has come when the atten-
ton of the farmers in that region is
devoted largely to raising stock and
stock feed, principally corn and oats.
According to A. A. S%poonholtz, a
Lake county farmer, macaroni wheat
is not rust proof, is was supposed. A
field of macaroni wheat on his farm,
he states, is as badly damaged by rust
as a field of the ordinary wheat. This,
however, is an exceptional case, as
many other farmers who nave both
varieties declare that the macaroni
wheat was not injured by rust.