The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-23
WOMEN FOLKS"
LEAVE THE KITCHEN
TO WORK IN FIELDS
Despite Hail Storms and WEI
Summer South Dakota Will
Have an Average Crop.

Sioux Falls, 8. D.. Aug. 19.-The fa>-
Norable weather of the past ten days or
two weeks has been taken advantage
OF by the farmers of South Dakota in
harvesting what from all reports will
be IL good average crop in the state at
tiarge. The farmers have worked early
and late, and iii numerous instances all
lhe 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 grain IN a
few localities Of the state, especially
the southern part, has been completed.
but the spring wheat harvest has just
opened in many localities, while in 9TH
er places only few fields of this crop
are ripe enough to cut and harvesting
operations will not begin until the COM
ing week.
Big Money for Help.
A shortage of harvest hands Is re-
ported in some sections. but the farm
crs have Jared very we'll in this re-
spect Wages Of harvest hands rule
high, it being nothing uncommon for
farmers to pay $3.50 and 50 per day.
The excessively hot weather OF last
Saturday and Sunday ripened spring
wheat very rapidly in a part Of the
state, and the harvesting Of this grain
has since been Of the rush order.
In some fields the early oats ripened
so rapidly that farmers were compelled
to 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
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summer months the stalks of small
grain attained very rank growth, re-
quiring more than the customary
amount of binder twine when the grain
was harvested. In numerous instances
os 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.
Threshins Has Commenced.
In the southern part Of the state, and
in some localities in the central and
northern portions, threshing has COM
menced, and the stories told by the
threshing machines are interesting
ones. as bearing on the volume Of the
crops raised in the state this year. In
the vicinity Of Avon winter wheat
fields are yielding forty bushels to the
spring wheat of from fifteen to eigh-
teen bushels to the acre and sixty Of
oats 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, 10 reported from the vi,
cinity OF Iroquois, Kingsbury county.
Oats in Clay county is yielding about.
thirty bushels to the acre. Notwith
standing the unusually wet season the
quality OF the grain is reported as good
Winter wheat in Hanson county is
running from twenty-five to thirty-flve
bushels to the acre. Early oats in the
Vicinity of Hudson, Lincoln county, is
bushels per acre, and it 10 thought
later oats will yield much more than
this. as the heads filled out much bet
ter.
The first Of the new grain to be mark
eted at Lake Andes, Charles Mix coun-
Of the Home Owners Investment com
pany, which. notwithstanding that it
had been badly damaged by q hail
storm early in the season, yielded an
average OF about twenty bushels per
acre.
Live in Wagons.
For the convenience of threshinp
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
threshing outfit.
Corn has grown rapidly during the
hot weather Of the past two weeks, but
IN most localities in the state, except in
the extreme southern part, is yet be-
hind Its accustomed growth for this
period of the growing season. However.
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we'll In advance of the killing frosts Of
the latter part Of September.
COMPLETE JURY FOR