Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1912-08-01
PIONEER PAPER OF THE COUNTY.


The harvest in this part of North
Dakota is in full blast. Judging by
the development of the heads and
the filling of the kernels of the grain
that has been cut, Emmons county
will harvest its largest crop since
the country was settled. We say
its largest crop" for the reason
that the area is larger; but. as to
yield per acre, there have been sew
eral years when the crop yield was
as large as that of the present sea-
son. 1t is usual TO speak of hot
day or cold day as the hottest or
the coolest that one has ever expert
enced, the speaker forgetting the
other hot and cold.days of the long
ago and remembering only the pres
emit The fact is, however, that the
present crop is equal in yield per
acre to any that the county has pro-
duced. unless it be the year 1891,
when the crop was of an equally i'm
mensc yield throughout the entire
county But the crop of that year,
was of no more help to the people of
the county as whole than a smaller
one wond have been; for there were
not enough Neutrality-suspicious. to
do the work. Then, as an addition
al trouble, the snow came early and
remained all winter. Probably half
the grain remained in stack until
spring Then, when the farmers be-
gan to thrash. they found that the
grain was thoroughly soaked and of
no commercial value. There was
no value at all to such grain be-
You'd what was necessary for feed; ,
and there were thousands of bushels
more than the stock could consume.
Most of the stacks were not thrashed
at all, and in many instances. after
few hours run. the grain was
dumped on the ground and the ma
chine pulled away. Wheat that
would have been No. l Hard or No.
Northern could it have been
thrashed the preceding fall was Civ
en- away for hog feed or sold for a
few cents per bushel. There is little
danger. however. of the misfortune
of 1891 being repeated this year, as
the country now has sufficient
number of machines to do the work
in a short time, and as the harvest
farther south is ahead of this region,
and as consequence the thashing
is done sooner, in a pinch machines
from the earlier regions could be
brought here if there was bigger
crop than the home machines could
handle.
And the people of the Missouri
Slope not only have cause to be
thankful because of the big yield.
but because they have finally come
to appreciate the value of this re-
gion as a dairy country. Without
the figures at hand. it is hard to
give the actual output of butter-fat
in Emmons county during the past
year; but dealers inform us that it
has more than doubled during the
two years last passed An estimate
of the number OF cans shipped per
day, ON an average, from the vari-
Gus railway stations of the county,
gives a total of not far from HALF
A MILLION DOLLARS, not count
ing the cream made into butter in
side of the borders of the county.
And when farmer stops to con-
slider that the earning of this large
sum does not in the least interfere
with the production of live stock
and grain, and that SO profitable an
industry as the prodution of butter
fat will certainly increase every
year, he must thank his stars that
he has held on to his farm, and still
more firmly resolve that, come good
or evil days, he will not under any
consideration part with his home.
1t would seem that Divine Provi-
dence is providing ways and means
for eventually placing the people of
this region in a comfortable and in
dependent condition. Not only have
they ascertained that there's mon
ey in good milchss COWS" but the two
poor crop-years, l9lO-l9ll. have
shown them that there is another
crop THAT seems to be sure every
year for mice little bunch of
cash. We refer to the raising of
winter rye. Surely crop that last
year and the year before would
yield a dozen bushels or more to the
acre is immune against the hot
winds that usually come. when they
come at all, in late June or early
July. at which time the rye crop is
either in shock or too much matured
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