The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-08-16
VARIATIONS IN
CROPS MARKED
THR0UGHSTATE
County Agent Reports Show
Generally Good Crops, with
Some Damage Reported
WESTERN PART GOOD
Believed that Yields in West
ern Part of the State
Will Exceed Valley
WESTERN PART GOOD

shown in reports made by county
agents to County Agent Leader Haw.
The yields continue to bear out the
previous information that there is q
good crop throughout North Dakota.
The yields this year, however,
county agents reports indicate, show
clearly the difference between good
> farming and poor farming. In the
same neighborhood great variations
in yields are shown, and in many
cases the variation.is ascribed to the
difference in the farming methods.
Yields in the western part of the
state will exceed those in the Red
River Valley, it is believed.
Reports of yields as gathered from
county agent reports from many
:. counties includes:
Bottineau-sixty per cent of rs'
threshing completed with yields rang
ing from IS to 40 bushels. Marquis
and Ruby wheat badly rusted in
some neighborho.ds and Kubanka,
D-1, and DIS show no damage.
Burke-Threshihg will start about
August 20. Rust will cut the yield
of late sown wheat considerably.
. Oats and barley mostly in shock. Po-
tato yield to be tut heavily due to
bug damage and disease, Hay is es
cel!ent. Much loss has been caused
by lodging of wheat due to the wheat
stem saw fly. '. i,
Foster-Few pieces Of rye. threshed,
averaging Is bushels TO acre. Losses
will range from S to 30 per cent in
potato fields due to wilt, black leg
and rhizoctonia.
Williams-One 28-acre wheat 'fiel Id,
only one threshed thus far, yielded
211-2 bushels, weighing 63 1-2 pounds
after sustaining 10 per cent hail
loss. Rye yielding IL to 80 bushels.
Oats and barley yields will be heavy.
Native pastures are drying up but
the sweet clover pastures are still
good.
Cavalier Rye threshing yields
range from 20 to Is bushels. Rust
will damage some of"late wheat, but
none of early wheat.
Nelson-Rye yielding IL to- S8 bus
hels, on stubbled land from IL to ~
bushels, while on summer fallowing
it has attained the maximum.
Pembina-Rye will average 20 to
30 bushels with yields ranging from
Is to 35 bushels per acre. Quality
is fine and samples have been brought
in weighing SO pounds. Sweet clov-
or pastures are supporting two to
r,our head to ehucre while on other
=" pastures one animal is kept hustling
on four acres to get enough feed.
McHenry-Winter rye yielding II
to 1S bushels. Spring rye will yield
10 to 12 bushels. %.~.
Mountrail-Rye yield average II to
20 bushels, yield reported ranging
from 13 to 25 bushels. Only slight
rust damage to late wheat. Alfalfa
and sweet clover pastures are doing
we'll.
Crant-Lack of labor is holding up
harvesting. Corn IS developing rap
idly and will make good crop. AL
falfa is in blossom and promises
good seed crop. Rust will damage late
wheat but the big part of the crop
will not be hurt
Hettinger-Gardens damaged by
frost in few localities early in week.
Headers are being used extensively
due to rapid ripening of grain. Most
of the fields have come through with
y very little rust damage. Rye is all
cut and will give good yield. High
average Weld of oats and barley ex-
pected.
Ward-Rye to yield Is to 20 bus
hels; in Berthold area from 20 y
25 bushels.
McLean-A farmer in the Black
water country estimates his stubbled-
in wheat will yield eight bushels
while his other wheat will 60 from
. 20 to 25 bushels. Early potatoes are
ripening and will make splendid crop.
Late potatoes are still green and IN
need of another rain. Rain during
week stopped harvesting.
Slope-Some rye threshing finished
with yields ranging from 10 to 70
bushels. Early wheat good, late
wheat will be cut TO six to eight bus
hels by rust and weeds. Corn making
good growth. Grasshoppers causing
heavy damage to late oats.
Cass-Lack of moisture is damag-
ling the corn and potato crops. Pres
ont indications are that with double
the 1921 acreage Cass county will not
exceed last years production of po-
tatoes. Rust and hot weather have
plaved havoc with the wheat crop
and the average yield for the county
is estim,ted at II bushels. Early
seeded wheat yielding 20 bushels in
some instances.
Grand Forks-Much rye and some
wheat has been rhreshed, with the
wheat yielding from 10 to 32 bushels
per acre. Early wheat is OF very
good quality, an elevator reporting
that 35 per cent of the wheat hauled
!. in during the past few days has
graded No. dark, Late sown wheat,
small percentage of total, damaged
by rust.
Richland-Yields are only fair,
wheat running from five to 25 bus
hels and barley and oats from Is to
GO. Wheat will probably average IL
bushels to the acre. The grade is
generally good.
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