The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-08-09
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REPORT EKC9UR CHG
Rains of This Week Have Saved
Corn and Late spring
Wheat.

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dry weather during the past two weeks
or more caused early small grain to
ripen very rapidly. and the harvesting
of these grains carne on with a rush.
Harvesting Of barley ana oats and
| winter rye. and some early fields of
spring wheat, now is nearing COM
pletion in all parts of South Dakota. BY
the time the harvesting of these grains
is completed the great bulk of the
/ spring wheat crop will be ready for the
harvester.
Reports generally are to the effect
that the small grain crop which was
harvested in advance of the excessive
heal of last Saturday and Sunday is
one of the best ever raised in the state.
The stalks were strong and healthy,
and as a result the heads were We'll
filled with plump kernels, indicating
hat threshing returns will shoW that
the grain for the most part has yielded
unusually we'll.
During the filling period h weather
was cool and decidedly favorable for
this process, and because of this the
heads usually are plump and well filled.
Dry weather thus far during the mar
veSting period has enabled the
to push the work without delay. Be
cause of the dry weather it is hought
the quality of the small grain will be
unusually good.
In some limited areas armer lost
all or part of their crops by hail
storms q few days before the com
mencement OF harvest, but While the
losses are hard on them personally, they
had little effect on h general pro-
duction of small grain in the state at
large.
Reports are to the effect that late
spring wheat in many localities was
hard hit by the excessively hot weather
of last Saturday and Sunday, when the
temperature reached 100 degrees n
upward throughout South Dakota The
heat was SO terrific that late spring
wheat was shriveled badly, which will
result in a very material reduction in
the Weld.
The heaviest damage was done in the
central and northern sections of South
Dakota, where late spring wheat was
not as far advanced as in the extreme
northern sections and was caught just
at a time when excessive heat could at
feet it most. Corn also was affected
by the hot and dry weather and the
terrific heat OF last Saturday and Sun
day.
Several days ago it was reported
from counties in the central section of
South Dakota that corn already was
firing, and the excessively hot weather
since that time added somewhat to the
damage in that part of the state. Thun-
der showers, however. early Monday
morning and Tuesday, and a change to.
cooler, with a refreshing northwest
wind, instead of the hot south wind
which had blown for days, brought
great relief to suffering corn and late
spring wheat and reduced the damage
somewhat.
With a general rain corn doubtless
will fully recover and yet be a big crop,
the acreage being the greatest in the
history Of the state.
t8sCorn in some localities yet is behind
its customary growth for this period
Of the growing season., but is making
rapid growth, and the crop generally
is expected to get out of the way and
mature well in advance of killing frosts
during the latter. part of September or
%forepart of October.
Even if some of their crops are some
what short because of the excessively
hot weather during the past two or
three weeks, the farmers of South Da-
kota in general car nave no complaints
to make, as h high prices which they
will receive will give them a return
much greater than they received for
bumper crops raised in the past.
Some of the farmers of South Dakota,
have been holding their 1915 and 1916
corn crops n have been marketing
them during the past week or two.
they realized a nice profit by holding
the crops for the present high prices.
The ~aristocratic spud holds a prom
Using outlook. The crop will be tre-
mendous unless blight or some other
spud pestilence works havoc. There
will be a whopper crop of beans and a
big production Of all theT;early or late
fall stuff usually denominated as gar
den truck.
The Rosebud outlook for ansalI-
around food production is probably
better than ever before since the white
man came to turn the prairie into a
community of productive farms.