The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-10-17
BROOK|NGS
| COUNTY LEADS
In Barley Both in Acreage and
Yield This Year.
million AND HALF BUSHELS BARLEY
To Say Nothing of Vast Amount
of Other Crops

The state department at Pierre has
completed it's preliminary reporte upon
the crop situation in this state. The
conclusions are based upon returns re-
ceiycd from one thousand inquiries
! addressed by the department to intelli-
gent and business men in every county
and upon the observations OF the su-
perintendent during a trip over the
state.
The. statistics show that Brookings
county leads in the production al bar
lev, the most important and best pay
ing crop for the farmer this year, with
1.653.4 400 bushels, Clark, COdingtOn,
Kingsbury. Lake, Lincoln, Minnehaha
and Moody each contributed over a
million bushels to the total. The total
amount raised iii the state is placed
at 2O43S,257 bushels, about 100000
bushels less than was raised last year.
The big price this fall, has however,
more than made up for the shortage
in the crop, and the farmers will this
fall receive $14.920,3 1850 for their
crop, as against $7,3S7, ,977.1O last year.
The farmers of Brookings county alone
will receive about million and
quarter dollars in payment for this
years crop of barley.
The yield is placed at % bushels
per acre as against more than 30 bu-
shells last year. With last years price
the farmers would have been worse
off than they were last fall, but the
ine market value of their product has
brought them more ready cash than
ever before in the history of the state.
Minnehaha leads in the production
of oats with 3,034,3S0 bushels. Brook
ings is fourth in this respect with
total of nearly 1000, 900 bushels, Moody
county being second and Bon Homme
third. Clark, Deuel., Grant, Hutchin-
son. Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, Ro-
berts, Turner and Yankton each pro-
duce more than million bushels. AS
was the case with barley the oat crop
was shorter than last year, the figures
being 36,942,508 bushels as against
51,342,557 bushels for the proceeding
year. Here the fine market again
came to the rescue of the farmers,
and they will receive nearly $4,OOo,-
900 more for their oats this year than
last, the figures being $16,254,7O3.52
for this years crop as against Sl2,S3l,
1880 for last year. The farmers or
. Brookings will receive nearly one mil
lion dollars for their oats, which with
their large crop Of barley will give
them quite little spending money
for the winter months.
The oats area this year has increas-
ed 101 ,629 acres while the yield has
shrunk 1882 ,049 bushels, yet the cash
value of the crop this year is $3,423,-
574,22 above last year. These dls-
PARTIES are due to the lessened yield
per acre this year and the increased
price Last year the average yleld
was Al bushels and this year it is 2S.
Last year the average price was 20
cents, this year it is "A.
The wheat acreage has greatly de-
creased in Brookings the last few
years, and for that reason the county
does not show up among the leaders
in the production of that cereal Splnk
county is the leader with more than
two million bushels being followed
closely by Brown, Day, kingsbury,
Marshall and Roberts. The acreage
declined in all the eastern and SOUTH
ern counties while it greatly increased
in the new lands in the west. The
production of wheat this year is given
at 3O292,S13 bushels, valued at $685.
551 ,773.01. Last years crop was con-
siderably more, 39494,10S bushels, but
its value was only $19,154, 7S2.S0,
nearly S10,000O00 less.
The cultivation of durum wheat is
erratic. Several counties where it was
largely grown last year report a great
reduction, while in others it was great
ly increased. The tOal area in the
state devoted to durum increased
about fifty thousand acres, and the
81 hnIc
The above estimates are only on the
three most important crops, and the
South Dakota farmer has in addition
corn, fax, timothy and other grain,
beside hogs, cattle chickens, butter.
eggs and numerous products of the
farm. Surely the people of South Da-
kOta have reason to celebrate this
years Thanksgiving.
1t is a matter of particular pride to
the people of Brookings county to
know that we were first in the pro-
ductiOn of barley, the most important
crOp of the year Not only were we
first in numbe: of bushels produced
but in the numbetr of acres devoted to
the cereal we had a clear lead. The
Brookings county farmer had a good
"hunch" this year when he put in his
barley. IL is very proDdDie liidt lHe
great price of barley this year Will
greatly increase the acreage all over
the northwest, and whether this will
affect next years price is an open
question. However, we'll posted crop
experts say the price next year Will
be good no matter how great the
amount raised, as the demand is con-
stantly growing. The pure food laws
of the different states, which require
the breweries to put greater amount
OF malt in their products. are given
the greatest credit for the increased