The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-08
The Whcat Yield In Minnesota.

ST. PAUL Mimi, Dec. 81, le0e.
The Crop Of Wheat for ls65-Immense Yield-Ainns-
sofa tie Grdndry Of the Wes-Forty eight Bushels Of
Wheat for Erery Ishaoitans-The Yield Compared
10Th thai Of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Other States, &C.
Now and until now the farmers of this State
succeeded in harvesting their The unprecedentedy
large YIELD coupled with the great scarcity Of laborers
has been the means of delaying thrashing operations
at least six weeks and in the remote
tons of the country with the thermometer away below
Zero the good work goes bravely say theyield is
unprecedented. WE'LL it is Wheat will average twenty.
bushels to the acre. oats fifty barley from thirty
FIVE to forty, and corn and potatoes in proportion
But is of wheat the principal cereal raised in Min
nesota that would treat. What cotton is to the South
wheat is to Minnesota II cotton is king, surely wheat
queen In 1860 the wheat crop of Minnesota amounted
five million bushels, being nearly five times
greater than they raised in the New England States
The yield has been steadily increasing each year,
and now the crop for 1866 will not fall short OF twelve
million bushels an average of twenty seven bushels to
the In Ohio the largest crop grown THAT Of
1850 only yielded and nethird bushels to
the while the average for ten but twelve
sidered one OF the richest agcutural States In the
West the crops do not average more than fourteen
bushels while in New York and the New England States
the yield about forty per cent less When you take into
consideration the fact that there than two
hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants in Minnesota
this yield of grain seems enormous Forty-eight
bushels OF wheat for every inhabtant man. woman and
child Why Egypt in its palmest days could not boast
Of more than this. The valley Of the Mississippi over
shadows the valley Of the Nile, and pharoahs are no.
where. The superior quality Of Minnesota wheat is
shown in the weight of the grain and its suabenes for
milling purposes II weighs from so to 10 lbs to the
bnshe, while in Ohio and Pennsylvania ii averages from
ffty-fiye to sixty,
Owing to the low stage Of water In the Minnesota
river for the last three years immense quantities Of
wheat have accumulated in the southern and western
sections OF the State Every barn and storehouse has
been filed TO overlooking, and great Toss has been
tanned by reason Of sweating and rottage. One
operator alone, who has about one hundred
and fifty thousand bushels hand, will lose
al least fifty thousand dollars and many smaller specu
lators in proportion When the Minnesota Valley Rail-
road is finished the difcrty of getting grain market
will be easily obviaed II is expected that this road
viii be finished by next harvest that there is like
hhood OF a repetition OF these losses
The export Of wheat for this year already amounts to
about seven million bushels Next year VIII probably
he much larger, the stock very large and
the means OF transportation will be Increased double
Capitalists have constructed spacious warehouses along
the lines OF the different railroads operation aud TO be
III operation next year, and engaged in filling
them with grain 10 their utmost capacity. Farmers
draw choir wheat to these warehouses from distance OF
one hundred miles and think themselves lucky If they
get sixty cents bushels for their produce The expense
attending the transportation Oh grain TO market nearly
double what 10 Is any other State, but the producer
finds the wheat crop most remGnerase nowi til
standing.