The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-08-26
OATS RUNNING 40 TO so BUSHELS;
BARLEY, 40 TO SIS; WINTER
WHEAT, 20 TO 80.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the various
State Institutions and from
Many Different Parts of
the Sunshine State.

Sioux Falls.-Threshing machines
throughout South Dakota now are hum
ming the stories Of bumper small grain
yields and the farmers of the state are
in good spirits. Early reports from
threshiIg operations show that oats
is running 40 to so bushels TO b
acre, barley 40 to 55 bushels, winter
wheat 20 to 80 bushels, and spring
wheat II to 20 bushels. While these
Dakota the crops are more uniformly
good this year than usual-no poor
crops in any part of the state except
in the small areas hit by hail.
Some personal and specific records
or this years threshing records are:
Armour-A mammoth small grain
crop has been harvested in this terri
tory. George Vance threshed oats
which averaged 40 bushels per acre.
Frank Brown threshed speltz and bar
ley from an eight-acre tract and got
800 bushels. Wheat yielded well and
will run as high as so bushels to the
acre.
Bryant-Louis Staudy threshed a 49,
acre field of barley, which yielded an
aggregate of 1890 bushels-or close
to so bushels per acre. Joseph Null
crone threshed 20 shocks of barley
that yielded "a bushels and 20 pounds.
Clark-Frank Meeks, living nine
miles northwest of Clark, threshed a
4S-acre field of barley, which aver
aged better than go bushels to the
acre. The crop of oats from a small
field threshed out an average of 80
bushels per acre. Barley and oats will
thresh out an average of from so to 20
bushels throughout Clark county.
Wheat will average not less than 80.
Clear Lake-Wm. Kreger threshed
a field of oats which averaged rs
bushels per acre. Numerous farmers
report that their barley crops this
season are the largest they ever raised.
Many fields of small grain were so
great in growth that binders could
scarcely handle it.
Delmont-Morris Harris threshed 20
acres of winter wheat which yielded
20 bushels per acre. He sold the crop
for 80 cents per bushel.
Dell Rapids-The grain yield will be
good, especially oats, which is the chief
small grain crop of this vicinity. Re-
ports are received that oats are shell.
ing 10 to % kernels to the head, which
would indicate a yield of from 80 to
20 bushels per acre.
Elk Point-W. X. Shearon threshed
the winter wheat crop from so acres
and received an average of 80 bush
els to the acre. Clausen Shearon's
wheat threshed out an average of 26,
William Prim threshed spring wheat
which went % bushels to the acre.
Hetland-Robert Coulson and his
brother threshed their crop of barley
which averaged a little more than 40
bushels to the acre, the total yield be-
ing LOO bushels.
Hudson-Oats on the farm of Chris
Hagen threshed out an average of As
bushels per acre machine measure, and
almost 60 by weight. II. H. Cables
40 acres of winter wheat threshed out
an average of a little over 80 bushels
per acre. While a 50-acre field of oats
threshed out over so bushels to the
acre.
Hurley-Oats on the Chris Flyer
farm, south of Hurley, threshed out
almost 20 bushels per acre. Other
small grains will yield in proportion,
and the quality of all of them is excel
ent.
Oiivet-Oats thTeshed Oh the farm
of John Schneider, east of town, av-
eraged so bushels to the acre.
Parkston-Oats threshed on the
Weiden6ach farm, near town, aver
aged 38 bushels per acre.
Scotland-Ted Sproul and Frank
Haines threshed oats which averaged
better than 40 bushels per acre, of
good quality. Frank Behl had a small
field of wheat which threshed out IA
bushels per acre.
Dallas-E. w. Ticknor, who farms
a half mile from Dallas, did the first
threshing of the neighborhood and the
yield was as follows: Wheat, 81 bush
es; barley, 81 bushels. A voluntary
yield of rye netted IL bushels to the
acre.
Bridgewater-Yields reported are:
r. A. Savage, oats, so bushels; j. A.
Mandel, oats, 4S bushels; j. A. Hilton,
oats, As bushels. Wheat is expected
to fall far short of the promised yield,
owing to blight and rust. Corn is
making a marvellous growth.
Aberdeen Will Stay Dry.
Pierre.-Aberdeen remains in the
dry list. This is the decree Of the
supreme court in affirming the lower
court of Brown county in the case of
A. l.. Ward ct al. against c. c. Fetch
er ct al. The issue was on counting
of the disputed ballots. The. supreme
court finds that thirty-seven votes
were enormously counted in the af-
firmative and forty-ive enormously
counted in the negative, and with a
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