Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-12
Wells County

| Wells NouOIy
! Harvey, N. D., July 9.-Small yiel(
! of wheat/expected, but good loca
showers have improved conditions
greatly. Oats total failure. FlaA
will be good with perfect conditions
Pastures need rain. Hot dry weather
continues.
Nelson County
Lakota, N. D., July 9.-Weathe1
cooler and more favorable to crops
the past week, but have only had two
light showers. Severe hailstorm mid
die of week five miles wide and TWEEN
ty miles in length totally destroyed
crops in it's path. Almost all wheat
beyond help from rain and it does not
seem probable there will be more than
enough for seed. Flax is deteriorat-
ing in most fields from lack of mois-
ture. Oats and barley very poor and
too far gone to get much help from
rain if it did come. Corn is holding
it's own and looks good. Hay short
and thin and none on upland. Car
den produce a failure.
Foster County
Darlington, N. d., July 9.-No rain
of any consequence the past week.
Temperature some cooler. Late grain
showing serious damage. Wheat in
low places trying to head and will
make some crop. Not over rs per cent
of all acreage will be harvested. Flax
remains good color, but shows signs
of heading too low to save. Corn has
done we'll, but is now showing need Of
moisture. Aside from corn there will
be very little rough feed for stock
Gardens show damage.
Eddy County
New Rockford, N. D., July 9.-No
rain since last report, except local
showers in different parts of the coun-
ty, doing very little good. All early
sown grain will be a total loss and
two-thirds of late soWn will not be
worth cutting. Some OF it is heading
out very short, but cannot fill unless
soaking rains come at once. Corn is
doing we'll, but needs moisture. EV-
erything in the crop line needs rain
or they will not mature.
RoIette County
Rolette. N. D., July 8.-Cooler wea-
Their, with light scattered showers and
good rain on the 4th. Early wheat
that has survived is headed out on
very short straw, with prospects OF
Welding enough for seed. Flax and
some late crops, with plenty OF rain,
would probably average half OF normal
croD. Conditions much better in the
Turtle mountains and many farmers
are hopeful of securing a fair yield OF
wheat and other grains. But little OF
the early sown wheat land has been
plowed, as the ground is too dry and
success of forage crops soWn LOOKS
doubtful. If rain comes soon large
part of wheat acreage will be ploWed
before harvest. Potatoes fair to good
where we'll cultivated, but there Is
much complaint of potato bugs. Trees
standing the drouth well.
Stutsman County
Jamestown, N. D., July 10.-Condi-
tons have not improved any. Light
rain July 9TH, but not enough to do
any good. Wheat rapidly going back
ward. A good rain will still save con,
siderable flax. Hay crop all gone and
feed crops practically ruined.
Mckenzie County
Schafer, N. D., July Am inch and
of rain has fallen in the
past two days, but owing to the con-
tinued hot winds of preceding week,
will avail but little to the wheat crop:
Many fields are headed on ten and
twelve inch straw. Earliest soWn
wheat suffering the least. Still only
a small yield is hoped for, even from
the best fields. Rain will undoubtedly
benefit hay, garden truck and flax. The
small acreage of corn that has been
nlanted looks fairly we'll. Potatoes
have withstood the heat and drouth
remarkably well.
Trail County
Hatton, N. D., July 9.-No rain so
far. Cooler nights of late. Tame hay
now being cut, yielding about one
third of an average crop. Farmers
are selling their stock.