The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-10
, Secretary LOOMS Gets Some Good
Ones From the State.

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Fargo Forum: Sargent county which
In years past has been regarded as a
poor region for raising wheat is GER
tain to have an extraordinary bumper
crop of grain as we'll as barley, oats
and flax this year, according to a
reliable report received from George
z. McWilliams, president Of the Cogs-
we'll state bank. In response to an
inquiry from the Northwestern Saw
tngs & Loan association of this city,
Mr.. McWillfams has written a letter
to Herbert L. LOOMS, secretary of the
association, stating that there was ev-
cry prospect Of wheat yield of the
phenomenal proportions of fifty bush
els to the acre in some parts of the
county and that the average crop all
over the county would be at least
twenty-five bushels.
Not only us an immense amount
OF wheat been raised there but Mr..
McWilliams states that there will be
extraordinary crops of fax, oats, bar
ley, speltz and practically everything
else that is grown in the vicinity and
there seems to have been no damage
from rust or other causes. McWil-
liams' report is glowing one through
out. He says in part:
Il have seen many fields of wheat
that will thresh out forty to fifty
bushels to the acre and l do not be-
lieve that the average yield of the
county will fall below twenty-five
bushels. Speltz and barley will yield
forty to fifty bushels, oats forty to 100
bushels.
Corn and fax are making a good
showing; in fact they have never been
In better condition here.
THE county has an increased acre
age this year and should nothing Gap
pen between now and harvest we will
nave as good crop as we have ever
had. There is little or no damage from
rust. The barley harvest is we'll under
way and | saw wheat yesterday that
was ready to cut"
While McWilliams' report is the
most optimistic one of reliable char
acter that has yet been received here
this season and is particularly sur
prisfng as coming from thesouth-
eastern part of the state almost all
the news which is coming from the
north and west Is of very encourage
ing character.
A banker writing from Westhope
In Bottineau county states that while
hail has done little damage there is
certain to be big crop in that vi
entity this year and the average yield
will probably be twenty-five bushels
/ to the acre.
From Rolla in Rolette county comes
| a report that contains some rather
interesting and remarkable statements.
These are to the effect that while
/! fife wheat has suffered some damage
! from red rust the disease seems to
have absolutely no effect on durum
wheat which is making fine showing.
Another unique feature of the crop
outlook in that county is that the har-
vest is five days earlier in the west
ern part of the county than in the
! eastern. The crop there will be more
, than the average, according to the re-
port, and the only danger lies in the
fact that it will be about two weeks
later than usual, harvesting to begin
in the western portion of the county
; on Aug. 20 and in the eastern part
Aug. 25.
Williams county makes an equally
favorable showing according to a re-
port received by Mr.. Loomis from a