The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-08-03
some SOUTH DAKOTA
FARMERS FIND FAULT
Much Complaint Prevalent Be-
cause Of Small! Size OF
Granaries.
HARVESTER is RUNNING
Wheat Is the Bumper Crop and Rye is
Yielding in Some Counties Forty
Five Bushels Per Acre-One
Reports Dry Weather.

Sioux Falls, s. D., Aug. 1.-Early pre-
| dictions that South Dakota would this
! season raise one of the greatest crops
in it's history are fully borne out by
detailed reports, which have been re-
ceived here from q number OF points IN
practically every county in the agricul-
tural portion of the state, east of the
Missouri river.
These reports show that black rust
has not yet seriously damaged the
wheat crop and fears of injury or OF
general damage being done have nearly
entirely abated. Violin. Platte and
Alexandria are the first towns to make
REPORTS of threshing having been done.
At Violin, Eugene Handy threshed his
winter wheat. which yielded an average
of about twenty-five bushels to the
acre. Others in that locality report
yields of as high as forty bushels to
the acre.
Rye Forty-Five Bushels Per.
Lewis Harris, a farmer living near
Platte, has completed threshing thirty
acres of winter wheat, which averaged
eighteen bushels per acre. The wheat
was of a very light stand. n field OF
rye threshed out ~forty-tive bushels per
acre, while another field yielded thirty
five bushels to the acre.
4 Joseph Hollis, living near Alexandra,
was the first to threSh in that imme-
diate locality. He threshed 10 acres
of rye for Joseph Mcnamara, which
averaged ten bushels per acre.
) Winter wheat in the extreme south
arn part of the state is all harvested
and some threshing has been done. Che
winter wheat which has thus far been
marketed in that part of the state test
ed siXty-two pounds to the bushel and
was of u very fine quality.
Spring Wheat Being Cut.
Harvesting of spring wheat com
menced several days ago in the south
ern part Of the state, and this week
will ommenc in the central portion.
Scattering fields of early sown wheat in
the northern part of the state have
fipened and will also be cut during the
present week.
Barley harvest is completed in the
greater part of the state, While a great
deal of oats will be cut this week. The
barley crop will be a good average one
in the state at large, while in many
localities it will be better than for sew
eral years.
Harvesting. among other counties, is
also in progress in Lyman county, west
af the Missouri river, where crops of all
III / - iA'''
is one of the comparatively new coun-
ties, and heretofore has been numbered
among the cow counties of the state,
it having for years been devoted chief
ly to the grazing of cattle.
One County Lacked Rain.
Certain sections of the state for sew
eral seasons raised very poor
Tue to the lack Of sufficient rainfall
Among them was Mcpherson county
Conditions there, Is elsewhere, are en-,
tirely different this year. Mcpherson
and other counties which had poor
crops during the PAST few seasons viii
this year have bumper rops. No black
rust is reported, and by the beginning
of next week wheat in that, the eX.
IRENE northern, part of the state will
be re ,dy to be harvested.
Need More Granaries.
1t is a well known fac hat notwith'
standing how favorable the crop pros
poets are, some farmers will find some.
thing to kick about. One of this class
of farmers who lives in Hutchinson
as to crop prospects,. He kicked, as
usual, but the kick was of an origina
and unexpected character. He said: 81.
it amt one thing it is another in this
d country. My crop is going to be
SO big that my granary Won't hold it
and I will have to blow myself to builC
more granary ROOM"
\ Some of the farmers living in the vi
entity of Hartford, Minnehaha county
express the belief thai their wheat vii
thresh out from twenty to forty bush,
els to the acre.
Owing to the heavy yields of all kinds
of small grain, retail implement dealers
have been pushed to the utmost to sup
ply the unusually brisk demand fol
binder Irvine.