Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-07-27
Correspondence
kAMPEskA AND RIcHLAND.

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"The small grain crop is all gon,
to pieces. ] have a piece of earl.
barley that WOULD have been heavy
1t will not now make over 40 pc
cent of an average crop."-Augus
Melchert.
rOne Of the best prospects the
first Of July ever saw here hal
dwindled 10 less han 9ne-half a fai.
crop. | have a piece of blue stem
wheat that will not yield over five
bushels per acre and that will be bu
chicken fee d."-Henry Falvey.
of | get ten bushels of wheat ar
acre i'll feel | am getting a bis
yield for this year."-E. Fl. Oleson.
TOO hot, damp and still after the
cool weather. Did not look for bis
crop this year. Cant get two bis
crops in succession Mr.. Roberta
on the Sam Spencer farm m west
Richland.
MIR. Roberts has eight-foot binders
and uses FIVE horses abreast Of each
other on them, has arranged a hitch
for them that has proven very sue.
cessful.
Hay must be very heavy this year.
| have sold more hay tools this year
than ever before. I can't fill my or
ders 70 rthe automatic shockers for
binders. They have made good
Geo. Lautenschlager.
The writer had heavier grain, that
is, prospects, than he had last year,
He had hCl vier straw and a thicker
stand. His durum wheat looked i'm
mense with large plants, thick on
the ground and long heads. Now this
same field is at least one-fourth lost,
the heads being totally dead or near
ly so, others are starting and If the
weather continues the same, more or
all of the plants will SO the same
way. The field is not so much infest-
ed with rust but seems to be killing
out by a species of blight-premature
decay. His splendid piece of early
barley will be very light and poor.
His oats are badly infested with rust
and will be a slim yield. Corn and
potatoes are doing we'll. We will
have to plant more potatoes, corn, al
falfa, etc, and raise more sheep and
hogs, and milk more cows.
We examined two pieces of beard
less wheat on the H.. d. Rice farm
across the road from US. On the
west side the piece there seemed to
be a show yet if weather permits and
rust does not develop more, The
piece on the cas- side (the first
grain Mr.. Rice seeded) is very badly
rusted-black rust too-and will be
a very low yield and very poor in
quality.
i am interested in a piece of wheat
in North Dakota. / have no heard
OF late how it is faring. The land
and crop in which | W an interest
located in Montana, seems to be far
ing fine SO far. They have never had
rust there.'-Rev. G. e. Bonner.
Mr.. John c. Morris, the efficient
buyer of the Farmers Elevator com.
pany, of Kampeska, a few weeks ago
said to the writer that he "felt in his
bones that something was going toll
happen to the crop this year. Mr.|
Morris was APPARENTLY correct in his
feelings at that time, the something
seeming to have h%appened.
Indeed it is too bad that our hne|
prospects for a bumper crop have
come II aaugsht, but corn is doing
well and we are immensely betterl
of than the folks who have been
hailed QUIT. M. Brown.
The barley | am cutting is about
one-half hulls, not filled at ALL
Ben oquist. ---.-
Mr.. and Mrs, Sam Dean made a
visit to the Babcock home north Of
Watertown the first of last week.
We get more comfort, pleasure
and rest, it seems to me, from our
car than from anything else that we
own.'-Mrs. Geo. Brown.
7 have not had my car very long
but believe it to be a very good and
profitable Investment for a farmer.pl
Simon Oleson.
Now we can have an automatic
scrubber. Well. If we can get a good
automatic cooking machine for pies,
cakes, gravy, potatoes, fried chicken,
etc. and an automatic buster, bed
maker, fire builder. baby tender, and
a machine to do all the chores in the
morning, then some good soul to fur
nish aHsthe money we need, Why then
We really can take life easy, Ell?
Henrg Fera imply cannot keep outi
sof politics. They're bound to have
him for president.