The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-15
j. s. OBSERVER
FINDS WHEAT
HURT BY HEAT
Serious Damage Being Done
in kidder County, Says
0. w. Roberts
INSPECTS MANY FIELDS
Official in Fryberg Reports
Crops Are Hard Hit in
Billings County

Serious damage is being done by
the terrific heat to wheat in the
vicinities of Steele, Dawson, Tuttle
and Woodwork. according to O. w.
Roberts, official in charge of the
United States weather bureau here,
who made a tour of the fields around
those communities yesterday. Roberts
declared there has been rapid de-
terioration in the past four days
due to the hot weather. The govern
ment observer said he inspected the
same fields two weeks ago and the
crop prospect then was about 70
bushels to the acre, while now the
prospect is for not more than IL
bushels to the acre. Even the stems
of the wheat plants are whitening,
Roberts said.
G. E. Ward. agronomist on the
staff of the state department OF
agriculture, who returned yesterday
from an inspection tour of wheat
lands in the vicinity of Dickinson.
said that the unrelieved torrid
weather in western North Dakota
will cut the wheat yield in half in
many sections of Stark, Dunn and
western Morton counties.
Report From Fryburg
Vern King, weather observer at
Fryburg, yesterday sent in report
TO the United States weather bureau
here as follows:
"Early crops of wheat, oats and
barley in Billings county have deter.
iorated rapidly since July /. Until
Saturday the trouble was lack of
sub soil moisture more than any un-
favorable hot weather, but yester:
days and today's temperatures, com
bined with strong southwest wind,
are rapidly burning up crop that
was already suffering from lack OF
moisture but which would have made
n fair yield with cool, filling wealth
e~
"Flax and corn show no damage"
Roberts declared today that there
Is no rain in sight He said there
may be an occasional thunder shower
in some sections of the state but no
heavy rain will fall in the near fu-
tnre.
High Temperatures
High temperatures were reported
from all parts of North Dakota again
yesterday. The temperature at res
senden was 1O4: at Dickinson, lol;
at Minot, 100. and at Dunn Center,
100 The highest in Bismarck yes
terday was 90. Other temperatures
were reported as follows:
Armenia, o.; Bottineau, 90; Devils
Lake, 96; Glendale, SO; Grand Forks,
81; Jamestown. 90: LanGdon, ";
Larimore. 90: Lisbon. 81: Napoleon,
9s: Pembina. 95; Williston, 1o2;
Fargo. 81.
The forecast is for slightly cooler
tonight.
RED RIVER WHEAT HURT
Fargo, July 15.-P)--Materia
shrinkaee Of the wheat crop of the
Red River valley due to excessive
heat and stem rust is expected. This
is the situation brought to light by
the visit in the Valley of nationally
and internationally known crop ex-
merits who have been staging an in
yestigation of the crop condition.
However, the shrinkage will be IN
the wheat berry. and the fact that
the crop probably will be ready to
cut within ten days or two weeks
is expected to preclude any danger
coming above the lower straw section
of the plants, the experts agreed.
Heavily Infected
There are some fields heavily in
fected with rust, it was found. but
II has as yet done no damage. II
was explained that the nodules OF the
fungus are now on the lower stem
and that some time will be required
for them to grow or be transferred
to the heads or berries and that by
this time the wheat will be ready to
cut in most cases.
When rust does actual damage to
tho wheat berry it must be thickly
clnstered around the stem of the
,yheat straw so as to shut off the
nlant food going up into the berry
and few fields were found where the
disease is in that advance stage, the
experts said.