The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1923, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT BUMPER CORN AGENTS OF N. D. Weekly Crop Reports Are More Optimistic Than For Several Weeks WHEAT SOME BETTER) D., Aug. 23.—With corn to give promise of a crop and potato prospects | looking better each week, the crop reperts sent in this week to the of- fices of the North Dakota extension ‘ division from 23 county agents have a more cheerful tone than any re- ceived for some time. Many county agents report that ed to be a better crop ever been in the history corn is than it ha pe of their counties, Some of the flint varieties are entirely past danger of frost and dent corn is beginning to dent. Corn throughout the state is passing out of the milk stage. Pota- are heavily vined but some of the agents find that there are rel- atively few tubers under the hills. However, this crop in general is very toes t yields bear out a little bet- ter than the estimates of this crop. The average yield is from eight to ten bushels but the quality is very gocd in most sections of the state. Kota wheat seems to be yielding better than other varieties. Rye is generally light in yield but fair to good in quality. Many rye fields were not threshed as it was felt that the crop would not pay threshing and harvest costs, Flax continues to look good in many s1 tions of the state. Late flax prom to yield better than the early variety. Alfalfa seed is not setting well and | in many districts there will be but a very light seed crop. In other sec- tions the second growth of alfalfa | has been cut and the third crop is rapidly growing, Sweet clover is fur- nishing some seed but the chief value of this crop to the farmers 1s its feed value as pasturage. More than half of the county agents report that this legume is furnishing ex- cellent pastures since the late rains. In Kidder county plowing is in full swing, the farmers taking ad- vantage of those days when thresh- ing was impossible because of the rain Wages paid by the farmers during the harvest and threshing ‘varied from $3.00 to $4.00 per day although the usual rate was by the hour and many farmers requiring from ten to twelve hours per day. Threshing costs in Towner county were estimated at 40 cents a bushel for threshing mar- quis wheat. Weather throughout the week was generally fair with some light local showers id with one or two coun- ties reporting hail which resulted in some crop loss, An interesting feature is the report from Towner county that the extra shoots and suckers resulting from the last rains were lessening the chance of the corn crop coming to maturity before frost. County reports from the various extension agents for the period end- ing last Saturday follow: MORTON—“Some farmers are not yet through harvesting. Wheat yields are from six to 15, bushels. Quality, however, is vary good. There are many fields of No, 1 Dark Northern. Alfalfa growths have lodged badly, making it necessary to cut the crop for hay. Sweet clover is furnishing good pasture. Pocket gophers have done some damage in the fields. Corn is progressing, due to the continuing warm weather.”—George H. Ilse, Mandan. 2 GOLDEN VALLEY—“Harvest is completed this week. A few threshing machines are starting up. Labor is plentiful at $3 per day. The crop is not as good as was hoped. The qual- ity, however, is not going to be bad: Grasshoppers and Hessian flies have déne considerable damage. All pas- tures except sweet clover are dry,j but sweet clover is furnishing excel- lent feed. The second crop of alfalfa is short, but will furnish a fair sec- ond crop. A little hail was experien- ced this week. C. Russell, Beach. | PIERCE—“Harvest of small grain is practically completed, but the late flax is still green. Wheat thresh- ed varies from two to 12 bushels per acre, with an average of about six bushels, quality varying from No. 4 to No, 1. Corn and potatoes were im- proved by recent rains, but corn needs two weeks more to mature. The potato crop also will be improved if frost holds off. Alfalfa and sweet clover have been benefited by the rains. The second crop of the latter is promising. The sawfly has done con- siderable damage in some localities. There was no frost in the county this week. It is generally dry throughout the county.”—H. R. Dan- ielson, Rugby. TOWNER—“The harvest in the , southern part of the county is about completed, and in the central part well under way, while there is still much to do in the northern end. Some threshing has en done in the southern portion, with yields as fol- lows: rye, six bushels; marqu: ix to seven bushels of 50 to 53 pound wheat. One field of Kota yielded 11 bushels 59 pound wheat. One thresher estimated the cost of thresh- ing marquis wheat at 40 cents a bu- shel, as the threshing returns run from $23 to $30 an hour, wages and threshing being 40 cents an hour. A large acreage of sweet clover seed was cut this week. Corn continues to do well, but cold weather and the extra shoots and suckers which re- sulted from ‘rains, has lessened the chances for maturity befére frost. Early flax was injured seriously by the drouth, but late flax looks very good. The rain throughout the coun- ty this week delayed farming oper- ations,”—J. W. ‘La Ca RKE—‘“ CHEERS COUNTY WHEN HE LAUGHS newspaper correspondents. This unusual photograph of President Coolidge was taken as his features broke in a wide smile at his first conference with Washington throughout the week.”—Carl Swan-! | son, Bowbells. McHENRY—“Threshing is general | throughout the county, and spring wheat yields are from three to 10 bushels of very fair quality. Some heids of wheat were not cut because | of damage by drouth and rust. From 12 to 14 percent of gluten is shown by test. Rye yields are from five to, 12 bushels; oats, from 20 to 45; bar | ley yielded 20. Corn and_ potatoe: look much improved. An average of 65 bushels per acre of potatoes’ is expected. Much sweet clover is being cut for seed, and many farmers have! put up a nice amount of sweet clover hay. Native meadow hay is also! plentiful and excellent, The weather was somewhat cloudy with a few showers.”—M. C. Thomas, Towner. BENSON—“Threshing is well un-! der way, with grain running from two to 12 bushels and Kota and Min- dum showing up well above others. The northwestern part of the coun- ty, however, has very small crops. Corn looks well, and will be a good crop if frost holds off. Pastures are picking up. Soaking showers in the northern part of the county storpedl Jj threshing for a few days.’—Irving! Courtice, Minnewaukan. WILLIAMS—“Harvesting is nearly completed, and threshing has started west of Williston. The reported yields are light, and the grade is poor, the average yield of wheat being about 10 bushels and rye about seven. “A few fields of flax ure harvested. The stand is good, except where wilt has done damage. Corn is the best the county has ever produced, and is in the dent stage, Potato bugs are still cutting down the vines and lessening the yields, Sweet clover pastures are drying up in localities, and need rain.”—E. G. Schollander, Williston. RAMSEY—“Yields of wheat so far threshed range from five to 12 bushels. The quality of grain is varying greatly, but the aver- age is probably no more than fair. in has prevented threshing, and {not much has been done. The al- jfalfa and sweet clover that was left for seed has not made much progress. Most of the corn looks good, and with average fall con- |Gitions, will be an excellent crop.” —A. M, Challey, Devils Lake. WARD—“The wheat harvest is completed, but some fields of oats and barley are yet to be harvest- ed. Wheat threshing has just commenced, early returns showing from six to 15 bushels. Due to Potato bugs, injury, not more than a 50 percent crop over last year will be harvested. Field. after field is now being abandoned. Weather has ranged from cool and |foeey to hot and clear.”—John Husby, Minot. GFAND FORKS-/“Wheat. har- vest is completed, and threshing is general. Early threshing re- turns bear out estimates that the crop had been injured by heat and rust. Wheat will average about seven bushels and*is grading from No. 2 to No. 4. Barley will aver- age about 18 bushels, and oats about 22. Flax prospects are fair, and this crop will probably yield six to seven bushels. Pota- toes are showing a good set, with |The second crop ‘crops corn. Potatoes should yield well. of alfalfa has been cut and the third crop is mak- ing rapid growth. The weather has been fair, throut the week.”— T. X. Calnan, Valley City. McLEAN—“The average yield of the county will probably be about six bushels of wheat to’ the acre altho some of the better fields are as high as 14 bushels. Rye is yielding three bushels. Only a few fields: of small grain have been threshed.* Flax is look- ing good and corn never was bet- ter. Some of the corn is entire- jly out of danger of frost. Potatoes | and millet promise to be nod also. Alfalfa is setting scarcely any seed and this crop may be a seed failure. The corn is somewhat affected with smut this year. There was some hail and rain during the week.”—A. L. Norling, Washburn. ZND MILLION PRODUCTION Employed in Huge Willys- Overland Factories A bird’s eye view of the extensive Willys-Overland plant at Toledo, Ohio, where over 15000 men are now employed in producing the second million cars would reveal eighty-six eparate factory. buildings, each one literally repgsenting ,a bee hive of industry. In this immense collection meet the huge daily demand for Overland and Willys-Knight ears and already this year every ‘kind of pro- duction record from daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly figures have been smashed. The first:six months ' of this year witnessed the shipping of over 100,000 cars which beat the previous highest six month figure in 1916 of 93,435 cars. In 1922 the first six months’ output was 43,783. At the present time, by operating a total of 4,715 feet the Willys-Over- tor cars under construction at one time. This gives a production ca- pacity of about 1000 cars per eight hour working day as the assembling of a single car is done in approxi- mately two and one-half hours, Pro- duction has on a number of ‘days gone above the 1000 mark. In this vast plant which has the; largest forge shop in the automobile industry, with eighty-five steam hammers and fifty-seven forging and upset machines, there are facilities for handling 1000 freight cars, in and out, every twenty-four hours. The electricity consumed snnually by the Willys-Overland factory is over corn well )idvanced. Pastures generally are in good condition, with sweet clover affording the most feed. The weather has beon cool, with some: showers.”—D. B. Morris, Grand Forks, GRANT—“The harvesting is nearly completed and some thresh- ing has been done. Reports show that wheat is running from seven to, 12 bushels per acre. Corn. and hav crops. dre in good condition. Alfalfa fields in general will fur- nish but fair yields’ of seed. A 1 occurred 28,000,000 kilowatt. hours, enough to light a city of 150,000 people. About’: 75,000 tons of coal are ‘used annual- ly. and > approximately ' 12,700 {ull carloads’ of materials are received annually’ and put into Willys-Over- land products, in addition to tremend- ous quantities of materials that come. in, tess than catload lote,_ Over 1,776,000. gallons “of fuel oil are used every’ year and over 389,- 900,000 cubic feet’ of” artificial ga: ‘These figures ‘give'onesa hint of th Marvelous ectivity going on at the Willys-Overland Company in Toledo, lionth car and are getting along on the second million lap at art amas) ry peed. Silk ‘alpaca ts made inta the most h| charming atreet frocks, cut on the | Tingerte-. IS UNDER WAY Over 15,000 Men Are Now tive assembly lines ‘extending over, land factory is able to have 349 mo-! which in June produced’ the one mil-., Sar a ‘only. ease THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ; ‘LEAGUE'S POST’- BILL LARGE | Reports to 52 Nations Ex-; \ pensive Proposition To Body Coneva, Aug. 28—The recent | movement aiming at the reduction of ithe running expenses of the League | | of Nations, especially the salaries, probably will not ‘concern itself with the League’s postal charges, which ‘form a considerable item. | The League of Nations is undoubt- edly one of the biggest- mailers in the world. With 52 nations affilia {ed, and with each kept constantly in- ‘formed of League activiti ind fur- {nished regularly with co, of all League reports, the League’s mail! bag assumes almost incredible pro- portions. In addition, voluminous reports on multitudinous matters in: teresting the League stream in from all quarters of the globe, forming a { storehouse of useful data. All this is | mimeographed and distributed) full reports of the opium meetings, in which Americans took such a prominent part, have just. been cir- | culate@ to all members for their in- formation, so that countries will be enabled intelligently to prepare their action on the opium question at the next Assembly in September. By international machinery which whirls unceasingly, with Geneva its pivot, there has been. established a vast clearing house of useful intel- ligence on a great variety of interna- tional problems whose range is con- stantly increasing, Governments, foreign organizations and individuals in many lands are constantly writing | to the secretariat requestirg infor- mation on a thousand and one mat- ters which touch the whole gamut of ' human activity. j Special agents of the League are constandy in the field pursuing spec+ jal investigations. Professor Zins- ser, for example, of Harvard Univor- sity, is now making exhaustive in- quiries into health conditions in . 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