The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-26
GOLDEN GRAIN NEAR
LY ALL HARVESTED
WEATHER MADE TO ORDER
COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BET
TER-THRESHING RIGS START
NEXT WEEK ON GREATEST
YIELD sTATEHAs EVER SEEN.

Farmers are making excellent pro-
gress with their harvest. In many
localities large percentage of the
wheat, oats, barley and rye is in..tha
shock and if the present favorable
weather continues for another week,
practically all Of it will be cut. The
weather is cool-ideal for cutting
grain. 1t is easy on horses and shoe
kers. The grain has ripened very fast
but is not Smelling out badly. Very
little of it will be wasted.
The whole country looks like one
vast field of golden grain. The shocks
standing thick in the fields make a
picture that no artist can paint. Far
mers are working with vim and their
smiling faces show that they are sa-
tisfed. There are so many things
that might easily contribute to cut
down the yield that the farmer does
not cease worrying a little until the
last bundle is in the shock. Early
threshing reports show that the yield
for all grain is enormous-the best in
the states history.
Flax looks first class and if the frost
does not damage the crop, we can
count on many twenty bushel yields.
We have heard of no particular
scarcity of help. Many farmers
could use an extra hand, but they are
getting along, working long hours and
saving that expense.
Several threshing rigs will start
operations next week, starting in on
the rye and barley, leaving the wheat
go until later.
Farmers are planning on putting in
considerable winter rye, using the seed
from this years crop. Wild oats were
so prevalent this year they hope to
get rid of much of it by sowing rye.
Spring blowing showed the best
yields this year and many farmers
will let a good deal of their blowing
go over until spring. Rye sown on
the stubble last fall made better
yield than that which was sown on
discing. This is one of the years
when some of the apparently poorest
farming showed the greatest returns.
A. A. Robinson, the we'll known
grain man, who has established rep
utation for making very conservative
estimates, says that wheat in this ter
ritory will average from 81 to %
bushels. This takes in the late wheat
as we'll as the early. The late wheat
will probably not average as good as
the early wheat. Eighty-five per cent
of the wheat is now past all danger.
Mr.. Robinson believes there are some
wheat fields that will run up to 40 or
IS bushels, while there are any amount
good for rs to % bushels.
The normal yield for the state, with
100 per cent average is 10 bushels, so
Mr.. Robinson is placing this years
average at two or three bushels above
the 100 per cent. The average for
several years for the state has been
ID or Is bushels. This is the best all
around crop Mr.. Robinson has ever
seen grown in the state. ..r
Mr.. Robinson places the average
for oats at As bushels, with the best
at rs. During an ordinary year, oats
run from 20 to 30 bushels. In 1912
some fields averaged 80 bushels, but
Mr.. Robinson does not believe the oat
crop is as heavy as in 1912. For one
reason, we had better seed that year.
The average for barley will run a
trifle under oats. Some fields will
run from 40 to so bushels. It must
be remembered that barley is usually
sown on the poorest land to clean up
the weeds, and often very late. #