Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-09-19
BARl.p!|!o..n.'. Ss:s;;i;;itilERS
Il IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Return Well Satisfied
With That Section OF the
United States.
FOUND SOME KNOCKERS
Land Advancing in the
Black Hills Region, Ac-
cording to Report.
FOUND some KNOCKERS

we nave returned from "Trip
through South Dakota where we found
everybody cheerful and bumper crops.
evidence that the small grain crop
raised in South Dakota this year is
exceptionally fine. Speaking of the
state in general it may be true in some
localities of limited era, the small
grain was injured by the hot and dry
weather during the early part of July
but the state at large never before
raised a b etter all around crop of
small grain. Each day additional
thrashing machines are being added to
those already engaged in thrashing out
the great quantities OF grain. Stack
ing is completed in the southern Sec
ton and nearly SO in the northern. In
some localities the farmers have com.
menced fall blowing with the ground
In excellent condition for this work.
Many of them are using traction en-
gines in turning over the ground for
the next seasons crop. Corn remains
in first class condition and with hot
dry weather the next two weeks will
make the largest crop of the kind ever
raised in South Dakota.
After getting through our business
in FaulkCon we came homeward by
the way of Huron, Sioux Falls, Sioux
City, Missouri Valley and DesMoines.
from Des Moines we went northWard
to Eagle Grove, Gilmore, Lake Crys-
tai and Mankato to Winona. The
crop yield in all the places we visited
was beyond the usual amount. We.
have returned home very much pleased
with the outlook. OF course we found
great many knockers in our travels,
as well as at home, but that does not
bother us as we are from Wisconsin.
They have shown us just the same!
We are more satisfied than ever that
South Dakota is o. K. You will see
by the following statement from a
Black Hills paper that land in that
section is advancing in price.
The Black Hills.
Harvesting of the 1912 crop in the
Black Hills, always later than other
sections of the state, has commenced.
The crop will break all records for
that part of the country. A conser-
vative estimate of the total crop out
put from the Black Hills country this
fall is 100000, which is far in ex-
cess of anything heretofore.
There will be about $4,000 bushels
of wheat, 100000 bushels of oats,
200, 900, bushels of corn, 10000 tons of
alfalfa, $4,000 tons of native hay and
375, 900 bushels of potatoes. beside a
scattered crop of flax, barley, spelts
and clover, which was not estimated,
and an extraordinary production OF
garden vegetables.
Tt is the first time that oats and hay
will be exported from the Black Hills
and the first year that that section
has grown enough wheat and vege-
tables for its own consumption. This
shows the magnitude of the crop, as
the population of the Black Hills is
/ $4,000.
On the land under the government
irrigation project there is 11,214 acres
In wheat, $40 in oats, $500 in corn,
1910 in alfalfa, 1850 in native hay and
44O in potatoes. The rest of the Black
Hills will produce about twice as
| much as all of these, with the excep-
ton of alfalfa, which is five times as
great.
The estimated average yield by the
acre of the grains and produce is:
Wheat, 20 bushels; oats, so; corn, 49,
alfalfa, tons; native hay, II tons, and
potatoes, $50 bushels.
This is the estimate furnished to the
railroads and on which the farmers of
the Black Hills are basing their claims
for prosperous winter.
G. A. CARPENTER.
f. G. PECK.