Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-19
RECORD BREAKING
YIELDS N BURLE|GH
Dozens of Burleigh County b"r-
mers Show What Can Be Done
IN Slope.
SCIENTIFIC FARMEkS
SHOW BEST RESULTS
It's Hard to Beat the Land in the
Slope Country for any
Purpose.

Purpose.
Actual results obtained by men Whf
make a livelihood from farming usual
ly are accepted as a better indication
of what a given region will do lndel
normal conditions and ordinary care
than are the records achieved by state
and federal experiment stations. A
few instance Of North Dakota yields
are quoted here, and the names of tle
farmers are given in order that any
one who is skeptical may verify the
statements.
Beat Hail Storm.
John Krantz, at Pretty Rock, had a
big field of Durham wheat coming
a!!,ng nicely last July when a local
hail.storm struck it. There seemed
to be considerable damage, and tle in
snrance agent allowed Mi. kranN
thirty per cent hail loss. In October
Mr.. Krantz threshed forty-One bushels
to the acre. 1T wasn't a full crop, but
it was reasonably satisfactory.
Electric Plant.
Z. H. Sperry, one of Burleigf
county's pioneer farmers, raises
wheat, and he also does considerable
with cattle. The other day when he
was in town to get an electrician to
look over his electric lighting and
power plant, he remarked that the last
twenty lead of three.year-old Here.
afords he had sold brought him $4,000
apiece in Bismarck. They were grass
fed cattle and weighed a tri1e Of 1890
pounds apiece.
Got Over 40 Bushels.
L. A. Larson, another old-time Bis
marck farmer, is feeling fairly con-
Portable about his wheat crop, having
just threshed 1900 bushels of sixty
four-pound Marquis on a patch Of for
ty acres. The average per acre was
as 1,2 bushels. Mr.. Larson has been
in Burleigh county for a considerable
spell, and he reckons he'll remain
somewhat longer. ,...t.
Gus Hoag, just outside of Bismarck
is d%eploring the fact that his wheat
only ran thirty.seven bushels to the
acre this year. But he raised a bis
corn crop from the same ground last
year, and he has an idea that that
sort OF evens up things.
"6i!ly" Hughes.
BILLY" Hughes at Mckenzie only
got 10 IL bushels OF flaxseed to tle
acre this year, but it was fairly new
land, and he sold his flaXseed at SITS
a bushel, and he regards $34.l2 cents
per acre as a fair-to.middlin' return.
s. r. CliZbe, up Mckenzie way, de.
cided that he'd better give thirty.
eight acres of his corn ground a sea
sons rest, so he planted it to wheat
last spring. and this fall threshed an
average of fifty bushels to the acre
He says the showing would have been
better if the corn hadn't sort Of taken
the tuck out of the soil.
Still Optimistic.
W. l.. Watson Of Mckenzie, mana
ger of the Hackley ranch, south OF
town, is resting up after finishing
%threshing a little jag Of sc, 1000 bushels.
BILLY" L.. says he doesn't believe the
ccunty's going to that region which
his middle initial sounds like when
useu DN an EnSuSlWan.
Over around Driscoll max is ruin
ming twenty bushels to the acre, with
spots making TWENTY-FIVE. They cal
culate they'll be able to get through
the winter.
Other Thirty.Seven.
Albert Ettan, near Dawson, har.
vested difty-three bushels of Marquis
wheat to the acre from a forty.seven
acre field. Ten acres averaged fifty.
five bushels per, and Albert lows that
something must have happened to the
other tiirty.seven.
These r just ordinary instances
noted in everyday conversation
around the garages or at the banks.
Nothing to brag about, but just an in
dication of what might be done if the
Missouri slope farmer really got,
down and scratched. The average
wheat yield for the state is said to be
II IL bushels. The smallest yield of
any size reported this year round
Bismarck was 20 bushels to the acre
on 1000 acres of new land. Course,
it's true that the bad yields aren't
Woasted OF, ana the average for Eur
leigh county may be as low as twenty
bushels. but there's no general need
as yet for a Belgium relief commits.
sion.
Over at Dickinson Supt. i. r. Wal.
dron of the experiment station raised
lat bushels of Victory oats; 72.5
bushels of Primus barley, and Sc bush
els of kukanka wheat to the acre.
Wheat yields ran all the way from
twenty-three bushels up to tfty-six.
Probably Mr.. Walden used some hi
falutin' college methods in dickering
with his crops, but he wasn't far from
the Burleigh county and Missouri
slope standard at that. Which would
tend to indicate that ordinary care
and gumption; sound seed mixed with
North Dakota dirt and rain and sun.
shine are a winning combination.