Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-23
WILLIAMS COUNTY
CROPS RUN HIGH
Threshing Halted on Account
of Rain and Snow but
Grain Won't Suffer

Wiillston, N. d., Sept. 22.-While
comparatively little threshing has
been done in Williams and Mckenzie
counties due to the week Of wet
weather, the early reports Of yields to
reach the office of the Herald indi.
cate that the bumper crop forecast
has not been overestimated. The
wheat yields reported range between
Is and IS bushels with the fields Civ.
ing the larger returns by no means
the exception.
One outstanding feature of the re-
turns so far IA is that the larger
yields are being secured IN corn land
and land which last year was sum
mer falloyed. Although the orr
crop in Williams county will be light
this season many Williams county
farmers will get big returns on their
last seasons corn crop due to the i'll
creased yields Of wheat secured on the
ground which was planted 10 corn
last summer. F.. 81. .,
Wheat Goes IS Bushels.
On the farm of Abram Miller west
Of Williston the yield of wheat on a
large field which last year was plant
ed to corn, was IS bushels to the
acre. Mr.. Miller does not yet know
the average yield for the other fields
Of wheat or his farm but is conndent
that the corn land will prove by far
the biggest money maker.
Thirty acres which last season
were summer fallowed on the farm
o. William Marsh, 10 miles west Of
the city, gave a yield OF 80 bushels
to the acre. On the farm of w. w.
Keltner in the same neighborhood AoJ
acres of wheat yielded all average re-
turn of 16 bushels to the acre. Mr..
Keltner believes that the difference in
the yield in these two cases is due
the fact that Mr.. Marsh's land vas
summer fal)owed last season. This
land gave in this season alone more
bushels of wheat to the acre than the
land alongside has given in two years.
Corn Lard Profitable.
On the farm of Larkin Hart north
of Williston cor land of last season
gave a yield of 26h bushels to the
acre while the average Weld for the
entire farm was IS bushels, the yield
running as low as IA bushels to the
acre on land which has been grain
cropped fer several seasons in sue
cession. Other yields on the Hart
farm are, oats, 80 bushels to the acre,
and barley, % bushels. On the O. ..
Eckeberg farm up the Little Muddy
valley the average yield'of wheat was
O hprhnlr m tho Mao 1VI ~, %L@ u
B. Larson farm the average yield was
IS bushels of wheat and 81 bushels
of oats.
One piece of ground on the Herman
Wilke farm, which last season was
summer fallowed gave a yield Of 80
bushels of Wheat to the acre. This
piece adjoins a field which in 1912
gave a yield OF nearly 40 bushels to
the acre.
Oats Give IS Bushels.
Another field on the Wilke farm
gave a yield of 81 bushels to the acre,
while another field where the wheat
crop this season followed a wheat
crop of a year ago gave an average
of Is bushels. Cats following wheat
on the Wilke place gave a yield Of 45
bushels.
Few reports have come iii from the
territory east of Williston and in the
northern half of the county where
prospects are for the biggest yields in
this section. Ed. Bettleson OF Ham
let reports one field going 80 bushels
to the acre and many fields through
this section Of the county are expect.
ed to turn out IS and 40 bushels to
the acre when threshed.
Mckenzie County Yields.
Northeastern Mckenzie county is
also turning in some big yields. Coun.
ty Commissioner Brevig of the Charl.
son territory reports his wheat, now
nearly all thresked, running Is bush.
els to the acre while his oats will
make an average only a trif1e less
than so bushels. The largest oats
yield Sc far reported in this section Of
the state is credited to w. N. Rutland
of the Charlson territory who thresh-
ed $50 bushels from IL acres, an aver
age yield better than Il bushels.