The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-18
STORIES THRESHING
/ MACHINES VERIFY
Crop Situation in South Dakota
8 Is Beyond the Guess
i Work Stage.
ErE YIELD is SPLENDID
Reports Of Threshins Covering an Ex.
tensive Area of the State Re-
ceived Tell of the Years
Large Crop.

Sioux Falls. 8. D., Aug. 16-The
:. shreshing machines are now beginning
to tell their story, and accordingly the
crop situation in South Dakota has got
ten beyond the guess work stage
EARLY predictions to the effect that
South Dakota would this season raise
one of the largest crops in it's history
are fully borne out by the threshing re-
turns which have been received from
various parts of the state
Reports of threshing covering an ex-
tensiNe area of the state have been re-
ceived here and are of deep interest at
this time. They are as follows:
Northville-R. A. Batteen had his rye
!, threshed last Saturday and the yield
\ was is bushels to the acre. George
!, Cassett also had some threshed, and
\ the yield was in the neighborhood of 16
4 bushels to the acre. The rye is of fair
quality.
Flandreau-George Pilling threshed
,/6lne barley that went 80 bushelsaper
p<acle. Hanson Bros. report 80 bushels
/, per acre; Giles Pettigrew reports 27;
( Frank Mead, %; w. S. Titus, 33; Ben
Julson, so. Barley is more or less dark
and is selling on the local market for
2S to 30 cents per bushel.
= Egan-Threshing is in progress in
Hbis vicinity. Robert Burgess threshed
q his barley, raised ON the blocks near
his residence, and reports a yield OF
40 bushels per acre. Rye raised on the
farm of Mr.. Reading threshed out over
20 bushels to the acre.
Big Stone-H. B. Crippens' fourteen
! acre field of winter wheat threshed out
about IA bushels per ace, and was sold
for seed to various farmers. His winter
rye yielded only bushels to the acre.
A1mour-H. P. Robinson, living near
here, threshed some of his new wheat
, and was the first to market wheat here
) This His Incl h
els TO the acre and weighed out%62
I pounds to the bushel.
/ -Aurora-A field of barley on q farm
I north of town threshed out 40 bushels
( per acre. 9
Nlitchell--Reese Jones, .re.,iitiiig one
and one-half miles southwest of town,
finished threshing his macaroni wheat,
which yielded 20 bushels to the acre
Harrisburg-S. d. Kinyon, living near
Harrisburg, threshed his oats, Which
yielded A bushels to the acre.
Rudson-Joseph Gates threshed his
oats, which averaged over so bushels to
the acre. A field of winter wheat. con-
tanning trifie less than ten acres,
threshed out 237 bushels, all of the finest
quality. Gates sold all the winter
xheat for seed at s1.25 per bushel:
comes from Epiphany, where the
Ozanne boys threshed out a field of
wheat which yielded 20 bushels to the
acre. A sample OF the wheat which
was tested at a Howard mill weighed
out 5S1s pounds to the bushel which
Agives it a grade of No. 1 northern.
+ ~Aberdeen-Joseph Lorber of Ravinia
township has finished cutting twelve
acre field of wheat, which was sowed in
last summers breaking. 1T required
fifty pounds of twine to bind it. Mr..
Lorber expects a yield of at least 80
bushels to the acre.
Baltic-Barley threshed on the farm
of man named Felberg, near here,
averaged 20 bushels per acre.
Wagner-George Soesbe threshed some
wheat that averaged 20 bushels to the
acre and oats that went SO bushels to
the acre.
Yankton-y inter wheat threshed on
the farm of Rasmus Peterson averaged
351a bushels to the acre. This fine yield
will result in the winter wheat acreage
being materially increased in this part
of the state next season.