The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-16

not more) better than last year. Barley
will be about 40 per cent better than
last year. Hay is a very light crop.
There will be q heavy crop of potatoes.
Small grain is nearly all harvested.
Primghar, O'Brien Co., Aug. o.
Crops Of all kinds in this section look
we'll. Wheat, oats and barley will af-
ford large yield. Corn also promises
abundaatiy. No grasshoppers this year.
Luzernc, Benton Co., Aug. 9-Wheat
will yield half a crop, and Of poor
quality; oats three fourths of crop
barley half a crop the decrease OWING
to rainfall and wind; there is good
prospect for a tull crop Of corn if frost
does not come too soon.
Seymour. Wayne Co., Aug. o.
The wheat crop is very poor; oats and
hay are good !; corn promises two-thirds
of crop. Harvest is nearly over.
Milwaukee, Aug. 10-The Sentinel to-
morrow publishes crop reports from thir-
ty of the most important counties in the
State. Winter wheat is now nearly all
harvested, and shows splendid crop in
!, many portions of the State the best ever
known. The acreage sown, taken as a
whole, is fully up to the average. while
!. | more bushels to the acre are realized
than anticipated. Spring wheat will be
more than usual. In many places the
, chinch bug has destroyed whole fields,
but this is compensated for by the exces-
5 siye growth in other localities. Rye
I. will be a fair crop. II is noticed in the
= l ,,1a0 r.
bug has attacked this crop, which is un
| usual. Oats yield an abundant harvest.
Owing to the high price of feed last year
e unusual acreage was sown to oats, when
Q have grown 50 rank that 1t has lodge
$ badly. Barley will be about the nsus!
r crop. In some places it has suffered
i greatly frem bugs. The hay crop al
$ over the State is very heavy, nearly
doubl. that of last year. The high prit
of feed caused a greater acreage to b'
) sown. co generally is late, and ha
J. suffered greatly by drought; still will
proper weather for few weeks tn
: Weld will be fair. Potatoes suffered
: some 81 hat from bugs and drought, bu
!; taking the st tie as whole, the crop wi!
:; be very large The cranberry crop ha
n suffered from worms. Near Berlin, j
the most important marshes, not one
: third of crop is hoped for. The ia
II crop will be almost failure. The arm
8 worm has heen active, particularly i
ii R.cine county. Altogether, the yea
bit proves to be most excellent one
y Wisconsin farmers.
or Trempeleau, Trempcleau Co.. Aus
lO.-The wheat crop is good, and wi
ne average twenty bushels to the acre GA
D; and hay are large crop, and in goo
ed condition; the corn crop is light; we al
ut in the midst of harvest.
tie LIE Roy, Dodge Co., Aug. 1o.--Tf
wheat yield is far above the average.
. is also the quality the oat cropis Il
ty best ever harvested; barley and rye al
ret also very fine. with a large average hi
n, is we'll cured and very abundant; col
IS and beans look well. Some ha'
,ut threshed. from which the above es
on mates are made, and most have cor
,es menced harvesting. Some fields a
ms nearly ruined by rust, some partly
chinch bugs, but the growth is We
lar,e. and the weather is all that cou
lve be desired tor securing crops.
err Avoca, Iowa Co., Aug lO.-Wheat
OPP, this vicinity is one-third to one-hall
,rn crop, mostly spring wheat. Oats goo
ar; those uncut arc BADLY down. Flax
rood. but uncut. Rye and barley hal
crop. Corn is looking well. but t
weeks late.
ght INDIANA
arr Rochester, Fulton Co., Aug. 81
tc wheat is all damaged in this neighb
are hood, and, as far as we can hear, II
p is no better elsewhere. 1t is spelling
nifty the rick and barns. Those who thr,
and dry it are the best off but the p
- pie cannot get machines. The grol
leat i, so soft we cannot use anything
wet steamers. The horses use up the tr
cor. in open rounds, and it Is hard to get
that steamers from place to place. II
Bar weather settles now we will have
ring corn crop Oats are gone up. Pota'
&c oi are rotting now, and it is discouragin;
the farmers.
,wn- Hunt;n vton. HUNTINGTON Co., Aug
ana The oats crop Is an entire fali'
The storms have beaten them 70
o. ground, and the army worm has "c'
rain to the rescue in certain sections OF
but county. finishing up what the storm
II II lett. Few Ok the UeiOS Will VIC Cns,
ably 1t all. Corn will be less than an .
ight age crop, even if all things favor
unity this on. It is so cold that many tea
Corn early frost. Mercury below ZOE in !
hold ust is not so encouraging rs it m
be.
,rops Battle Ground. Tippecanoe Co., !!
4 for 9.-Wheat in this county promised
lcre; . crop. but fully half of that is ro'
1.-TWO on account of wet weather. Corr
sew high ground is in fair condition. bu
n did low it is q failure But little oa'
army grass will be saved.
Roam. Wabash Co., Aug. Sin
Wheat sequence Of the wet weather the
,rom- and crops will be short. Wheat
COM perhaps yield on an average ten ou
op is per acre. Oats are almost an
failure. For corn the prospects are
TO- Flax is the best ever known. NJ
bush. to potatoes. Hay will be short
. fair waters have been high and much