The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-04
BINDERS HUM
BEING HEARD
IN BURLElGR|
Rye Harvest Now in Full
Swing and Some Wheat Is
y Being Cut This Week
DISCOUNT RUST TALK
Farmers Themselves in Many
Localities Report no
Black Rust Yet

The hum of the binder is being
heard in the fields of Burleigh county
this week.
Farmers are generally busy cutting
rye, and some are cutting wheat, al
though the wheat harvest is not go
ing to get general until next week,
according to information obtained by
The Tribune through interviews with
farmers and others who travel over
the county and make it their business
to learn conditions.
Rust talk, which flared up Satur-
day and resulted in the United States
Department of Agriculture in Wash
ington announcing possible heavy
losses in western North Dakota from
black rust, does not appear to be
worrying farmers in this section a
great deal.
Gottlieb Lanisky of Arena, in the
city today to make arrangements for
help at the state free employment
office, reported that there was no
rust in that section. He said the
crops were fair to good, and reported
that he had cut 200 acres of rye and
was starting in to cut wheat.
Herman Brocopp, in charge Of the
employment office, said reports we're
received of wheat cutting around Lin
ton. He also reported Joseph Nc
Clusky, north of Menoken, would be-
gin cutting wheat Wednesday.
Early Grain Safe
The E. A. Trygg farm, Ia miles
east of Baldwin, reported some red
rust but no black rust. No wheat
has been cut in that vicinity, and the
harvest probably will not start for
week, The Tribune was informed.
Rye is being cut there.
The G.. w. Larson farm rs miles
southeast of here, near, Brittip,. re-
ported no wheat was cut in that vi
cinity. There is no black rust there.
it was reported. Wheat cutting pro-
bably won't begin there until next
week, but the rye harvest is in full
swing now. Wheat, it was said, ap-
pears to be ripper around Bismarck
than around Brittin.
S. w. Derrick, superintendent OF
the 500 line, reported some wheat
was being cut up and down the line
The early sown wheat, which is pro-
badly one third of the crop, is be-
yond damage from black rust, he
said. The damage from black rust
ION the late sown grain is entirely
7problematical, he said, and it pro-
badly will be week before any ac-
curate prediction along this line can
be made. There is some black rust
and there will be, of course, some
damage to late grain, he said.
A report was received of rain
storm which was accompanied by hail,
near Fullerton, last night. A small
strip of rye and wheat was damaged
about 80 percent by hail.
Harvest Wages
Harvest laborers are beginning to
drift in, but it is little early for
a big demand from farmers. Wages
to be paid vary with localities, Mr..
Brocopp said, based on reports to the
local employment office.
It has been pointed out that in the
Red River Valley wages of from
$500 to $500 per day in the wheat
fields are being offered, with the bar
vest not yet under way. Some Sec
tions Of this part Of the state have
been talking higher wages. The ex-
pected influx of laborers to the state
is held likely to provide all the har-
vest help needed, and the prevailing
wage in this section of the state may
be held down to about the same as
the Red River Valley.
Farmers thus far have been able
to get all the help they need, and
with many men out of emplc jmcnt in
the east there is a disposition not to
pay any higher wages than necessary
to harvest the crop.