Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-08-24
WOMEN FOLKS"
LEAVE THE KITCHEN
TO WORK IN FIELDS
Despite Hail Storms and Wet
Summer South Dakota VIII
Have an Average Crop.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 19.--'rhe IA
vorable weather Of the past ten days OF
two weeks has been taken advantage
of by the farmers of South Dakota IN
harvesting what from all reports VIII
be a good average crop in the state at
large The farmers have worked early
and late. and IN numerous instances all
the members OF families, including the
daughters and other women folks
have cast aside their household duties
for the time being and aided in the har-
vest fields.
The harvesting of small gram IN y
few localities OF the state, especlhly
the southern part. has been completed,
but the spring wheat harvest has Just
oneued i'm many localities, while IN oth-
er places only a few fields ot TINS crop
are ripe enough TO cut and harvesting
operations win not begin until the COM
Ing week.
BIG Money for Help.
A shortage OF harvest hands IS re-
ported ia some sections. but the IaIll-
ers have Jared very well In this re-
spect. Wages OF harvest hands rule
high II being nothing uncommon toi
farmers 10 pay $3.50 and $3 per day.
The excessively hot weather Of last
Saturday and Sunday ripened spring
wheat very rapidly I'm a part OF lne
state, and the harvesting or thls gram
has since been Of the rush order
In some fields the early oats fipeneq
so rapidly that farmers We're compelled
10 continue harvesting operations on
Sunday in order to save the crop. IN
most parts of the state small grain Is
reported TO be Of good quality. owing
to the frequent rains during the early
summer months the stalks Or smaH
grain attained q very rank growth re-
ouiring more than the customary
amount Of binder twine when the gram
was harvested. In numerous Instances
as much as between three and four
pounds OF twine per acre was used,
while some localities have expert
enced severe hail storms, which De
stroyed crops over quite an extensive
area, the state has been very fortunate
! this season.
Threshing Has Commences.
In the southern part OF the state, ana
IN some localities IN the central and
northern portions, threshinG has COM
! mcnced, and the stories told by the
| threshing machines are interesting
| Dnes. as bearing on the volume OF the
! crops raised In the state this year, In
/ the vicinity of Avon winter wheat
Z UGlQS are Nl&iQlllE lDlLN bAN4A'io W '4'N
! acre In Charles Mix county yields or
/ spring wheat of from fifteen TO eigh-
! teen bushels to the acre and sixty OK
/ pats are nothing uncommon.
One Charles Mix county farmer, John
/ Lundberg, threshed rye which yielded
| an average of twenty-five bushels per
acre. Barley averaging forty bushels
| per acre, and wheat twenty-five bush
/ els to the acre. Is reported from the vie
cinity OF Troquois Kingsbury county.
! Oats in Clay county is yielding about
/ thirty bushels to the acre. Notwith-
! standing the unusually wet season the
! Juality of the grain is reported as good.
! Winter wheat in Hanson county is
| running from twenty-five to thirty-five
bushels 20 the acre Early oats In the
! yicinity OF Hudson, Lincoln county, is
| averaging from thirty TO thirty-tive
| bushels per acre. and it is thought
! later oats will yield much more than
/ this, as the heads filled out much bet
/ .er.
The first Of the new grain to be mark
sted at Lake Andes. Charles Mix coun-
| ", was winter wheat from the farm
| Of the Home owners Investment COM
/ pany, which, Notwithstanding that it
! mad been badly damaged by a hail
/ storm early in the season, yielded an
average of about twenty bushels per
/ acre.
Live in Wagon
For the convenience Of threshing
crews many OF the threshermen have
/ constructed houses on wagons, on
which the men live and eat, while the
wagons can easily be transported from
farm to farm in company with the
| hreshing outfit.
/ Corn has grown rapidly during the
! not weather of the past two weeks but
m most localities In the state, except in
he extreme southern part is yet be-
1ind its accustomed growth for this
! period Of the growing season. However,
! / is believed that 1t viii have matured
! well In advance of the killing frosts of
he latter part of September.