The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-08-27

CROPS ARE GOOD.
Threshing has begun in Nell

Ihreshing mas begun In Mellette
county. Most of the wheat is some
what disappointing as it appears that
the rust struck the plant at a very
critical period aud the result is that
in many of the fields the yield does
not come up to earlier expectations.
Fields that gave promise of Yielding
bumper crop, are only yielding 10
bushels or less, but the wheat crop in
this county was not nearly as hard
hit as it was in other sections of the
state, especially in the country east of
the river, and down in Gregory coun
ty. Oats, barley, rye and speltz ap.
parently escaped sny damage to speak
Of from rust. Ernest Hamilton was
in from his farm near Cody, and he
gave us few threshing returns from
his immediate neighborhood. Chas
Ray had 30 acres of oats that yielded
40 bushels to the acre, and the oats
was of unusually good quality, weigh
ing AZ pounds to the measured bushel
or an over run of ten pounds to the
bushel in weight. G. j. Wolf of tn at
neighborhood, had eight and a half
acres OF speltz, that yielded him SO
buehels of fine grain to the acre, and
he bad two acre field of hulless bar
ley that yielded him 36 bushels of
grain to the acre. John Steiner's 8
wheat averaged him 10 bushels to the
acre, some of it went as high as 20
bushels to the acre, while other parts
OF the field yielded much less. He
had in spring wheat of the Macaroni
variety and be threshed out about
1000 bushels of very good quality
wheat. We hope to be able to pub
lish statements of grain yields In this
county in some of our future issues
Oats seems 10 be running around AZ
bushels to the acre, while wheat will
be doing well to average from 10 to l5
bushels per acre. Barley will pro-
badly run around 30 to 35 bushels to
the acre on tigs average, while on rye
we have had 40 reports whatever, but
it probably will make a good yield
The corn crop is coming along fine,
and promises one of the hea West crops
we have raised in this county with
some bumper yields in sight. Most
Of the fields are now in full roasting
ear and it is believed that it will get
out of the way OF frost in fine shape.
Never in the history of the county
since it was opened for settlement,
have we had such heavy crop of
| wild hay as we have this year, and
never has the quality BEEN any better.
We're We able to cut and save all the
wild hay IN the county this year, aud
place our surplus hay on the eastern
market, there is no question but that
it would take first rank and command
the top price. There will be thous
ands of acres of this fine hay go to
waste in this county this year, as
heretofore, simply because there is
no one to put it up, and for the fur
ther reason that we are so far from
the railroad that the surplus cannot
be profitably y~sent to the eastern mark
cts, where there is a good demand.
From what little we have been able to
observe in scouting around this part
of the country, We opine that there
will be a good heavy crop of alfalfa
seed harvested this year, provided
that the weather will permit of it's
fproper harvest aud threshing. All
told this is an exceptionally good year
for our tillers of the SOIL