Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-12
To HARVEST
BUMPER CROPS
OVER STATE
Largest Yields in History Of State
Will Be Harvested Next
Week.
BURLEIGH COUNTY GRAIN
Is ALL EXCELLENT
Indications Are That Corn Prices
Will Be Away Up This
Season.

BY the middle of next week one Of
the biggest harvests in the history OF
the state will be III fnll swing. Accord.
North Dakota will raise 116O0O,O0O
bushels of wheat this year, and there
is strong possibility that that total
number of bushels at the end Of the
season will be in excess Of that figure
The amount is almost beyond human
comprehension. Approximately 12O,-
600 cars will be required to transport
the wheat crop of this state alone, af-
ter the threshing ceason.
Getting it down to figures where
people can comprehend the enormity
of the crop, it will taken ten trains
Of 100 cars each per day for l2O days
to move the crop. The figures are
almost staggering.
Grain Al Good.
The grain this season is Of an ex-
ceptionally good quality. The wealth
er has been in its favor all summer.
Throughout the state the same condi-
tion prevails; stalks have remained
green until the full maturity OF the
grain, which is a most unusual Oc-
curance. Practically all grains are
ready for harvesting at the present
time. All have had an equal start,
and all are maturing about the same
time. The fact that all grains have
grown slow this season accounts for
the fact that they are exceptionally
good.
Harvest Hands Needed.
While harvest hands are scarce at
the present time indications are that
there will be good supply within the
course of the next week. The real
harvest will not start before that time
and hundreds Of harvest hands are on
tieir way to this state from the
states Of Kansas Nebraska and Iowa,
where the annual harvest is already
practically completed.
Excellent wages are being paid in
all parts of the state. The average
wage being from $500 to $3.50 per
day. An extra man is needed in the
state for practically every quarter sec
ton of land planted to grain. lSecre-
tary of Agriculture Flint has been in
correspondence with the United
States labor bureau for the past TWO
luOuIuS, duu uuuAl CuS VI AACu WILL W
brought into the state through the
efforts of the department.
All Bumper Crops. ,...
Wills the wheat crop is looked on
as the prize crop this year, all other
grain crops will come under the head
OF bumpers" also. Over 80,00O,0O4
bushels OF oats will be harvested 35,-
Goo 0O0 bushels of barley, as compared
to 28,O00,00O bushels last year; $780,
600 bushels of flax will be gathered,
and approximately 100000 bushels
of potatoes, with rye crop running
close to 100000 bushels.
The corn crop is a little backward
this season, but present indications
are that it will also exceed the most
sanguine expectations. All grain crops
in Burleigh county are about ready for
harvesting, and in a number Of places
the annual harvest has already start
ed The prediction Is that the corn
yield will be about 100000 bushels
as compared with 14,000,00O bushels
last yea.. If the present warm wealth
er continues for another week or ten
days, however, the corn crop will
make wonderful strides and may
equal last years record.
Wilson's Views.
Commissioner of Agriculture and
Labor R. F. Flint is in receipt of the
following communication from E. A.
Wilson, agricultural agent of the
Northern Pacific railway, whose field
of activity requires him to visit mum.
erous points on the main and branch
lines of that road, throughout west
ern North Dakota. He says:
II have just returned from a trip
over much OF the Slope country west
of the river. The grain crops are
wonderful, and feel safe in stating
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