The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-20
PREM|UMPAID
PROBABLY WILL
Be Low, HOWEVER
Grain Of High Milling Quality So
Plentiful That Bonus Paid
will Be Small
VARYING YIELDS REPORTED
Conditions in Some Parts fairly
Bright, While in Others
Prospect Is Darker

Spring wheat of the 1880 crop which
is being marketed in the Minnesota
terminals is of extremely high milling
quality, with IA to 10. per cent pro-
tein content, but of light weight, &C
cording to the weekly crop report
issued today by the Farmers Union
Terminal association.
1.-The high protein content, however,
does not mean much to the producer
this year." the report says. Two years
ago wheat with the protein content
of the present crop would have COM
manded a premium Of 80 to 40 cents
a busnel. Today the owner is fortunate
if he, receives a premium Of 3 cents
a bushel for it.
80 great a part of the 1880 wheat
is Of high protein content and excel
lent milling quality that buyers are
not compelled to pay the usual bonus
to obtain it.
with threshing and harvesting re-
turns coming in from all states IN the
northwest, forecasts Of spotted con-
dition are being borne out.
Minnesota is in an unusually IA
vorable position. While corn has been
badly fired in some sections, the out
look is very good in other districts.
Corn is unusually good around
Waseca, Waterville and Kilkenny. Re-
ports from Jordan tell Of spring wheat
averaging more than Is bushels an
acre, and winter wheat somewhat
better.
There has been some improvement
in the prices OF hogs and cattle. which
on recent days have sold at the high
est prices Of several weeks. Crop re-
turns also are good from southeastern,
northeastern. and parts OF central
eastern North Dakota, and northeast
ern South Dakota.
while fairly bright pictures can be
painted Of conditions in parts Of the
territory, there also are dark sides.
High temperatures and extreme dry
ness have caused late small grains,
flax. corn and pastures to deteriorate
rapidly. Harvesting and threshing are
nearing completion in many sections.
The weather has been particularly IA
vorable for threshing and combining
In North Dakota.
Western North Dakota and Mon
tana are hardest hit by the drought.
The latest Montana official report
says that due to lack Of moisture the
government crop report for August l
may have to be revised further down.
ward.
The Montana department of agri-
culture again comments on the value
of summer-fallowing in the following
language: Well fallowed fields have
been holding up quite we'll. and in
most instances have been producing
double the crop reaped from stubble
or continuously cropped land
"A report from Edinburg tells OF rust
damage, and some samples were sent
in. The estimate Is made that rust
has caused is to Is per cent damage
in that part OF Walsh county, but
rust damage reports otherwise are
scarce. Around jamestown, N. D.,
wheat is running around IL bushels
an acre and. .durum somewhat more,
With wheat from 48 to 60 pounds in
weight. Barley and oats are turning
out about 20 bushels to the acre and
rye is. while flax averages about S
bushels. Corn acreage is larger as the
trend to Investigation grows, but
rain Is needed.
Around Lisbond, N. D., yields are
above normal. Elliott, Verona and
Englevale report returns Of around 20
bushels for wheat. Rain Is needed o
In this territory If yields are to be Of
real value.
From Golden Valley, Mont, comes
the neport that wheat is almost a
failure and that feed will be very
scarce in that territory"