Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-17
NUMBER .
Final 1918 N. D. Crop
Report Over Estimate
Final North D.kot. Crop Report Ex.
cesds Preliminary Estimate Ac.
cordins Govt. Agent

The October LIST report of the U.
S. Bureau Of Crop Estimates for
North Dakota made public October
9th places the preliminary estimate
for yield OF wheat at 13 bus. oats
"a bus, and barley 2l.5 bus. per
acre. Harvest condition for corn
66 per cent, flax Is per cent, and
potatos 80 per cent The state crop
outlook for wheat, barley, flax and
potatos is either average or better.
Commenting on the report A. ].
Surratt, North Dakota agent Of the
Bureau, says that threshing returns
of wheat in all counties have either
equalled or slightly exceeded the
optimistic forecast of last month.
Practically all eastern or valley
counties have either n normal or
better wheat yield with several
phenomenal individual yields re-
corded. An area in the central
part Of the state extending as far
westward as and including Benson,
Eddy and Foster counties will aver
age around a normal wheat crop.
Conditions very spotted in the west.
ern part OF the state, being both
good and poor. Damage factors
were drought, hail and grasshop-
pers but the chief damage factor
was drought. In a general way the
county averages for wheat taper
from II to % bus. in the eastern to
range OF 6 to9 bus. in western
counties. Quality is excellent as
rule except for occasional samples
| Of slightly stacked burned wheat
from header shocks that went thru
the heavy rains in latc,August.
Oats were much more unfavor.
ably affected by drought than either
wheat or barley and yields are gen.
orally inclined to be slightly below
earlier expectations This is es-
pecially true in northwest counties
where small per cent of late oats
were frosted. This condition in
creased the feed supply of roughage
as these oats were cut for hay but
lowered the grain yield to some ex-
tent. State quality is favorable as
a rule except in the northwest
which shows uneven and often light
weight tests. County yields most
ly range from % to So bus. III cast
ern to 12 to 70 bus. in western
counties
Barley yields practically the same
as estimated last month or above
average for the state. Yields are
poor in the western counties but the
greater part of the barley acreage is
! located in the more favorable area
or eastern half of the state. Quail
ity is good except noticeably dis
colored from late August rains.
County average yields mostly range
from % to 80 bus. in eastern to II
to 20 bus. in western counties. Nu-
merous farmers in central and
western counties state that their
barley yields often equalled or ex-
ceeded the oats Weld.
Severe frosts during the first
week OF September materially low
cred the corn condition over practi-
cally the entire state. The yield of
this season crop was not SO unsatis-
factory but the quality is lacking.
The fodder and silage quality is be.
low average as the majority Of farm.
ers were too short Of help and busy
with other work to take care of it
Immediately after the frosts. How
ever the crop will supply large
amount Of roughage as we'll as cen
| siderable reasonably mature corn
especially in southern counties. The
state will have good supply Of
flint seed corn but supply Of dent
seed will probably be ], notice.
ably short as the termination
test Of dent cern that was not
picked before the freeze is reported
to be rather low.
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