The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-08-11
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 Tells. S. D., Aug. 1.-Early pre-
lictions that South Dakota would this
season raise one of the greatest crops
in its history are fully borne out by
detailed reports, which have been re-
ceived here from a 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 ave nearly
entirely abated. Violin. Platte and
Alexandria are the first towns to make
reports of t%hreshing 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. One field of
rye threshed out forty-five bushels per
acre, While another field yielded thirty
five bushels to the acre.
Joseph Hollis, living near Alexandria,
was the first to thresh in that imme-
date locality. He threshed 10 acres
of rye for Joseph Mcnamara, which
averaged ten bushels per acre.
Winter wheat in the extreme south
ern part of the state is all harvested
and some threshing has been done The
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 a very fine quality.
Spring Wheat Being Cut.
Harvesting of spring wheat COM
menced several days 6 in the south
ern part of the state, and this week
will in the central portion.
Scattering fields of early sown wheat in
the northern part of the state haV
ripened 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
Of the Missouri river, where crops of all
kinds are unusually promising. Lyman
is n of the comparatively new u
ties, and heretofore has been numbered
among the Cow" counties of the state,
1T having for years been devote chief
ly to the grazing of cattle.
One County Lacked Rain.
Certain sections Of the state for sew
eral seasons raised very poor crops,
due to the lack of sufficient rainfall.
Among them was Mcpherson county.
Conditions there, as elsewhere, are en-.
ti.ely different this ear. Mcpherson
n other counties which had poor
crops during the Fast few seasons will
this year have bumper crops. No blacl,
rust is reported, and by the beginning
of next week wheat in that, the ex-
IRENE northern, part Of the state wilt
be /, dy to be harvested.
Need More Granaries.
1t is a we'll known fact that 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
county was interviewed the other day
as to crop prospects. He kicked, as
usual, but the kick was of an original
and unexpected character. He said: III
it amt one thing it is another in this
d country. Ny crop is going to be
SO big tnat my granary won't hold it,
and I will have to blow myself to build
more granary ROOM"
Some of the farmers living in the vi
entity of Hartford, Minnehaha county,
express the belief that their wheat will
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 limos to sup
ply the unusually brisk demand for
binder twine.
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