The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-31
GREAq TEST WHEAT
CROP KNOWN IN
VALLEY HISTORY
BEING THR ESHED.
Now Estimated State 81
Production Will Be About
10000, 900 Bushels
CAss HAS 25-
BUsHEL AVERAG GE
Figures on Banner County
Indicate From Twelve
to Fifteen Millions
i.
NEVER BETTER,
is TIE VERDICT
Fine Quality of Product a
Feature Operations
Pushed Rapidly
NEVER BETTER,
is TIE VERDICT

North Dakota has produced a
| wheat crop of between 9o,0O0,oOo
land 95,OOO,o0O bushels
cass county. probably the banner
wheat production county of the
state, on its 100000 acres sown to
wheat, has produced between 49,
100000, as conservative estimate,
and 15,O0e,o00 bushels, the latter
figures. being more generally ac-
cepted by Fargo observers of the
grain situation.
Never, in the history of North
Dakota, has a, crop with such
tremendous money value been
harvested.
North Dalota's ninety million
bushels of grain are worth, TO
the farmers, at least $160, 100000.
The gigantic 153, 100000 bishel
crop of grain, produced in 1915,
was worth $123,400.000 to the
producers, for it was sold at an
average cost of about 80 cents
bushel. This years crop will
sell at an average OF about 81,
the state over.
Cass countys wheat alone is
wcSth from $24,0O0,0o0 to $780,
100000.
The last federal estimate of the
North Dakota crop was S3,500, ,000
crop yields are so much better than
expected at that time that it is now
believed that the next government
estimate will show somewhere IN
he neighborhood of a0,000.600 bush-
els, and p robably more.
Yields IS Bushels An Acre.
Bonanza yields-wf1eat running up
to 55 bushels an acre are being re-
ported in the, Red river valley coun-
ties, and the fame of this region as
the bread basket of the world bids
fair to be thoroughly re-establshed
when the final figures on this years
wonderful crop are available.
The golden flow OF grain into the
elevators throughout the Red river
valley counties is well under way.
In some regions, half the grain has
been threshed while in others about
q third OF the work is done EIx-
cellent weather has favored the
threshers during the past week, and
other two weeks of good weather will
plete In the valley counties.
Cass, Richmond, Trail, Sergeant,
Ransom. Grand Forks, Nelson,
Steele, Walsh, Cavalier and parts
OF Pembina county art set aside by
the crop observers as being within
the belt where the greatest wheat
Yields ara bAiTaer Ten0rfed
"A secondary belt, where the crop
is slightly lighter, extends from the
western edgs of the two tiers of
Red river valley counties, to about
the line north and south between
Jamestown and Leeds, and extend
ing north and south to the state
boundary line. From that line west,
the crop is spotted, but there are
many districts in which yields are
far better than expected, as, for IN
stance, the Anamoose districts In
MeHenry county, where crops aver
agin around 20 bushels are being
threshed4
Development Rapid.
"over the whole state, the wheat
crop has developed far better than
early indications pointed o." said
morning.
A. B. Clancy, general manager of
the international Harvester com-
pany In Fargo, who Is in close touch
with the crop situation throughout
the Fargo district, comprising the
southeastern counties OF North Da-
kota. placed the Cass county pro-
duction of wheat today at about rs
bushels an acre.
II believe the whole county Of Cass
will average around 25 bushels an
acre. = said Mr.. Clancy. The reports
we receive indicate that the yield
is fine, and the quality of the best,
weighing from so to So pounds The
weight element, of course, is one that
will argument the production
Minnesota counties bordering on
the Red river also have phenomenal
wheat yield, the Minnesota yields
extending over that state generally.
however, as the state was favored
with excellent growing weather
during practically the whole seas
on.