Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-15
Ia Seven
North Dakota Counties
Satisfactory
Winter Wheat and Rye VIII
Be Ready to Cut 10
q Few Days

over the lake region of North Dako-
ia, comprising the counties of Ram
sey, Nelson, Cavalier, Towner, Rol-
cite. Pierce and Benson, could not
look better. The information receiv-
ed over the telephone and personal
conversation with farmers as they
come to town all reveal the same
good crop condition. The straw shows
a strong and vigorous growth and the
heads are long and well filled. The
early sown barley, wheat and oats
are looking exceptionally well and
many fields of barley will be harvest
ed by the goth inst. The barley heads
are unusually large compared with
other years.
The soil is full of moisture and suf-
icient to carry the crop through to
maturity. The wheat promises a
| good yield, as much of the wheat ex-
amined shows six kernels to the row,
| while the average for many years
past has been but four. All early
sown flayx is now in bloom and look
ing well and fee from wilt where it
has not been too thickly seeded and
the proper care taken in seed selec-
| ton.
The crop as a whole from Webster
north through the Sweetwater valley
and Cando are looking exceptionally
| good and the farmers state that they
| have never had such a stand of straw
since 1891. when IS to 40 bushels was
a common yield. Winter wheat and
winter rye is also looking well and
some of it will be cut around the
18th of the month.
Winter Wheat Promises Well.
The winter wheat sown in barley
| stubble has wintered we'll and prom
Uses a good crop. while that sown in
corn stubble and on summer fallow,
where it is not killed out entirely, is
very poor.
While the season has been very un-
favorable for corn. the hot weather,
during the latter part of June brought
it along in splendid shape and it now
promises a good crop. Vegetables
are doing well and the potato crop
promises to be a bumper one.
In SOM sections the potato bug is
creating havoc. but where the farmer
gets after them in time and sprays
them little damage appears. There
are a good many Iowa. Illinois and In
diana farmers and capitalists coming
into the lake region looking for homes
and investments and as they drive
through the country and behold the
fields of waving grain it is n con-
tinuous exclamation of "Oh, my, isn't
that grand?" One Of these parties
told The Tribune correspondent that
he expected to see a very primitive
country with small buildings and few
or no comforts, but was simply as
founded at the wonderful development
along all lines that he beheld in this
country, and frankly admitted that
the farmers OF the lake region and
Ramsey county showed a higher de-
gree of development than his home
country and that 4 the farmers Of
the Mississippi states could be made
to realize that a country of this kind
awaited them they would be flocking
into the lake region by thousands,
where they could buy just al good or
better land three or four acres in the
lake region to their n in the Mis-
sisippi states.
Better Than ILLINOIS.
w. j. Thelin of Arlington, ILL.,, who
came here three years ago and pur-
chased a farm two and a half miles
southeast Of Garska. is one Of the
many Of the Illinois farmers with
small means that is making good sue
cess in the lake region, and SAYS II
his people could only be brought here
to see the conditions his county Of
Bureau in Illinois would lose a large
percentage Of its population.
Len Maurer. M of the earliest set
tiers in the lake region. SAYS that the
present outlook for a large yield Is
better than for many years and the
soil and weather conditions r such
as to bring the crop through to ma
turity without any more rain. Every
one is feeling very optimistic over
the crop prospects and with present
conditions maturing there is no reas-
on why the lake region will not pro-
duce q greater crop than any other
section Of the large Northwestern
states.
0lD sEr1LEns PICNIC.