The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-07-22
CROP OUTLOOK
is EXCELLENT
IN BRookINGs COUNTY AND REST
OF STATE.
CORN CROP WILL BE LARGE
AND SMALL GRAIN APPEARS TO
BE THE BEST IN YEARS.

Crop prospects in Brookings county
are excellent at the present time
and there is every indication that the
farmers of this county will this year
have the best harvest they have en-
jOyed in some years. Barley and oats
are reported to be especially good and
nearly ready to cut, and while it IL
too early to predict with certainty as
to the wheat crop that grain looks
good and unless the present hot wealth
er continues too long there Is no doubt
but that the harvest will be a bounti-
full one. Corn has been doing fine.
especially during the warm weather
of the past few days, and is quite a
little in advance of tnat of former
years. The warm winds from the
south during the past few days have
dried out the ground quite little,
but there was so much moisture in
the earth that no damage has re-
suited.
Crop reports from throughout the
state are also encouraging and there
is no doubt but what other counties
besides Brookings will have big har-
vests. In some limited localities there
has been too much rain and fiat land
has been flooded, to the injury of
crops, but in the state at large crops
are in excellent condition. Unless
something unforeseen occurs, like a
severe hurricane of wide scope, the
crop harvested In the state this year
will he a very large one and may sur
pass the crops of all past seasons.
Corn has also attained a great growth
and also promises to be an unusually
big crop Even where the crop acreage
Is the same as last season, larger
amount of binder twine, from present
prospects, will be required, owing to
the rank growth of the stalks of
far during the growing season. AS
the small grain acreage has been very
materially increased in the state this
year. more than the usual amount of
twine will be in demand, and for this
reason the aggregate sales of twine
for the season should greatly exceed
those of any former year.
The Huronite says that during the
past ten days the old-line elevator
men have had their agents touring
the state and sizing up the crops.
One of these agents was at Huron
this week after making an examina-
tion of the grain fields in the James
valley. He was very pronounced in
his belief that the yield of small grain
would be exceptionally large and that
Judging from the present outlook the
corn crop would be q record breaker
In many parts of the state the bar
ley crop is already cut and at the end
of the present week there will be
but few acres of this grain left un-
cut and while the last few days have
been extremely warm no damage has
been done to ripening wheat. The
heads are long and are filling nicely
and the early sown wheat will be
ready for the harvester the latter part
of the coming week.
The flax crop is unusually large this
year. Many thousands of acres of
virgin prairie soil has been broken
up this year and planted to flax and
the frequent rains during the present
month have been very beneficial to
this crop. The oat crop is fine and
from every part of the state comes
reports indicating that the harvest of
1909 will be an abundant one.