Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-08-24
STORIES TARESn|NG
MACHINES VERIFY
Crop Situation in South Dakota
Is Beyond the Guess
Work Stage.
THE YIELD is SPLENDID
Reports Of T%hreshine Covering ar Elk.
tensive Area Of the State Re-
ceived Tell of the Years
Large Crop.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 16.-The
threshing machines are o beginning
to tell their story. and accordingly the
crop situation in South Dakota has got
ten beyond the CESS work stage. =.
Early predictions to the effect that
South Dakota would this season raise
one of the largest crops in its 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-
tensive 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 bushe to the acre. George
Cassett also had some threshed, and
the yield was in the neighborhood of l6
bushels to the acre. The rye is of a fair
quality.
Flandreau-George Pilling threshed
some barley that went 80 bushels per
acre. Hanson Bros. report 80 bushels
per acre; Giles Pettigrew reports %;
Frank Mead. Is; w. s. Titus. S3; Ben
Iulson, 80. Barley is more or less dark,
and is selling on the local market for
% to 80 cents per bushel.
Egan-Threshing is in progress In
his Vicinity. Robert Burgess threshed
MS DdTIey, RAISED Ou tne DOCKS near
his residence. and reports a yield of
40 bushels per acre. Rye raised on the
farm of MIR. 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 9 bushels to the acre.
Arnour-H. T. Robinson, living near
hpra fhraShaI cnnna of hiS now wheat
and was the first to market wheat here
this season. His wheat went &c BUSH
els to the acre and weighed out e.
pounus to the bushel.
Aurora-A field of barley on a farm
north of town threshed III 40 bushels
per acre.
Mitchell-Reese Jones, residing one
and one-half miles southwest of town,
finished threshing his macaroni wheat,
which yielded 20 bushels to the acre.
Harrisburg IS. d. Kinyon, living near
Harrisburg. threshed his oats. which
yielded "A bushels to the acre.
Hudson-Joseph Gates threshed his
oats. which averaged over so bushels to
the acre. A field of winter wheat. con-
threshed out 237 bushels. all of the finest
quality. Gates sold all the winter
wheat for seed at 1925 per bushel.
Howard-The first report of threshing
ONE 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
gives 1t a grade of No. l northern.
Aberdeen-Joseph Lorber of Ravinia
township has finished cutting a twelve-
acre field of wheat. which was sowed in
last summers breaking. 1t required
fifty pounds of Irvine to bind 1t. Mr.
Lorber expects a yield of at least 81
bushels to the acre.
Ealtic-Barley threshed on the farm
of a 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 ven SO bushels t.
the acre.
Yankton-Winter wheat threshed or
the farm of Rasmus Peterson averaged
35lk bushels to the acre. This fine yielt
will result in the winter wheat acreage
being materially increased in this par
of the state nt>.t season.