The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-07-03
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ITS HISTORY
SECRETARY M'NABB ES
INMATES OKLAHOMA
WHEAT CROP
EARLY THRESHING REPOTS
Indicate Average Yield of
IS Bushels Per Acre
EARLY THRESHING REPOTS

Indications arc that the wheat crop IN
oklahoma this year is the biggest in It's
history and that the average yield TO
the acre VIII exceed that Of any previous
ycar secretary McNabb Of the terri-
I torial board Of agriculture estimates that
/ Oklahoma this season will produce 30
/ o0o. 900 bushels OF wheat. although he has
received no detailed reports. lio has VS.
tied the wheat fields OF some of the
! southern counties and saws that he never
4 saw wheat look quite so well. The
| throshine Of the grain has only begun
but the meager reports that have thus
FAR come in Indicate that the average
\ WELD viii be about eighteen bushels per
| acre for the entire territory and that IN
! some sections the yield Is from twenty
to thirty bushels to the acre.
The season has been ideal for a bump
err wheat crop. Han and heavy winds
in scattered sections of the territory
have done some damage but not enough
10 cut Own the average yield materially.
There has btei plenty OF rain throughout
the season and other weather conditions
have been favorable
No Trouble to Get Hands
The wheat harvest IS about over In
Oklahoma although ia few localities
the bindels are suu busy Threshial
began about ten days ago but owing t.
rains throughout the northern aud west.
ern portion of oklahoma during the first
Of Inst week threshing was delayed ans
did not get under headway until TOWARD
the middle Of the week Weather FOR th'
harvest ami threshing OF the wheai
crop ias been uniformly ideal Th'
cutting Of the wheat WAS not delnye,
except IN Il few scattering instances by
storms and except IA the sections Aen
toned the threshmg has not been In
terfered with by rain No reports nav
come il that would indicate that any o
the wheat has been damaged in th
shock hy rain or wind storms.
Oklahoma was not handicapped in th
harvesting as was Kansas by scarcit
OF hands While IN some localities labo
has been scarce in most communitie
The farmers have been able To rusu
. enough men To dispose Of their Gro
. without delay Oklahoma people hay
4. no free employment bureaus 90 fan bac
4 npOn ana are il the habit OF cXercisin
4 their own resourcefuiness in seomia
!, harvest help. This may explain TO som
/, extent why no general cry ias gone u
!. from Oklahoma farmers for men to as
sist them ia the harvest ts has bee
noted froa Kansas.
= Mhelt has begun TO move Boa SON
r localities although 10 Is too curly for ID
(. general movement of the crop to bcgii
n Thus far grain dealers have experience
I, DO trouble go securing cars Do which
y make shipments but expect trouble lat'
on when The throshlng and marketr
i, nf the gIun begins IN earnest
May be Held fr Higher Price
There is % general complaint over u
territory that the price OF wheat is t'
low ind There s "a tendency among Il
farmers 10 hold then grain for high
rriocs. IA some localities the farmer
unious are taking the matter up al
N and are building grain elevators whc
the crop may be stored until high
prices may bee secured. The compai
ooaes from Payne county uut at Il
present price which is 81 CENTS for \
80 IL hardly nays fo rlise wheat rspe
81 tally in that county wherc the arera
IA yield d usually less than fifteen bush,
to the acre. The yicid per acre iu th
county is reported low this year %
)r the Qwlty IS good.
id The wheat yield us well as thr acrea
=, Is larger ths year in the northern al
western SECTIONS VI oklahoma than ~
lV where. Reports from Kay cnunty on 4
e' extreme northern border of iAe tor
tony indicate that the WELD will boz fi1
Hfeen 90 tldrB bushels 40 fhe oc
rhrcshing has generally mgun 90 a
county ana the test m ueony every 81
dh D. above go, Reports from Woods a
up Beaver counties n thc northwestern %
ot plflahouA indicate that iho ayerl
yield VIII hre3ti an pfrtlous roesris