The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-17
plans with them for system Of inter- state

pidAS Will t00l0 Ior system Oh lut0Ie State
crop reports.
This is move in the right direction
and we trust our State Grange will re !;
spond by taking similar action. We
call upon Worthy Master Adams to lead
off in this most important matter.
In the meantime we strive. as far
as we are able, to make up the de-
fciency by quoting from reliable grange
or local papers, These reports are much
more reliable than the interested guesses
of the daily papers.
For the following reports from Iowa
we are mainly indebted to the Patrons
Helper of Des Moines, Iowa.
Dubuque, July 29.-In many wheat
fields in this section, the reaper was put
to work this week and abandoned, the
grain not being worth harvesting. The
farmers must rely upon their old crops,
or buy grain for bread. Not one in ten
will raise enough for family use. This
condition of the crops extends through
Dubuque, Delaware and jackson coun>
ties, and is the worst failnre known in
several years. The floods, chinchbugs
and Hessian flies have done thier work
perfectly,
BENTON CoUNTY.-The wheat crop in
this county is below an average. Oats, in
some localities, good in others badly in.
jured by rust. Corn on wet land almost
failure on dry land, where it was well
cultivated, very promising. Flax was
never better. Tame hay good. Slough
grass nearly all destroyed by high water.
JAMES MCDANIEL
HENRY COUNTY.-We are about thro'
with our harvest, which was but short
job. Wheat nearly q total failure, and
very little Of it cut. Odessa is the best
and some of it will be cut vet. Oats very
light and scarcely worth cutting. Tim
othy very good and put up in good order.
TAYLOR CoUNTY.-Wheat,h half crop,
late pieces struck with rust many pieces
will not be cut; early barley very badly
mildewed in the head; late good, flax
looks well; corn ditto, considering the
time planted. Everything else seems to
be looking well, weeds not excepted,
owing to the frequent heavy showers.
MUscAT1NE CoUNTY.-We are very
busy threshing now here. Wheat is very
poor, will not average over from six to
ten bushels per acre; oats a good crop;
barley fair; grass heavy. Has been dry
TOR the past eight days. Corn looking
we'll but small; with tav orable fall will
make good crop. Chinch bugs plenty.
w. j. B.
WARREN COUNTY Forty acres tame
hay in stack without rain ;quantity never
greater expense, s125 per ton. Wheat
less than five bushels per acre, in fact al
IL ost a failure by scab or blight. Corn
looks we'll rather thin O.: ground. Oats
very good, but ripening rather fast.
Cholera has appeared again in some
herds OF swine, but not extensively.
4. HASTE.
Cartisle. Iova Juty 20, lsfi6.
MUscATINE COUNTY.-The prospect of
a crop in muscatine county is getting
beautifully less. every day the ground is
deluged with rain, too wet for operations
OF any kind. Machines will sink in the
soft ground the soil is like bed OF NOR
ter-too welt plow or hoe. The weeds
are taking the corn fields; wheat badly
ru5ted oats promised well, but badly
laid by the storm; barley poor and badly
rusted: meadows good, but no weather
to make hay. Ii rains, on an average,
every "a hours, and then how it rams.
10 the Editor Of The Chicago journal.
Cedar Falls, Ia, Aug, 5, 1S76.-
We are now in the midst of the wheat
harvest and can determine pretty well
the condition of the crop. With contin-
ued good weather the quality will be ex-
cellent. but the yield smallest tor many
years, being in all probability 40 per
cent. short in this state in this vicinity
halt crop.
The causes of the failure are
three fold: First, shrunken and grown
seed. the farmers sowing only the usual
quantity per acre second. seed-time was
rather late, and from the sowing forward
the weather was warm, and that contir-
ually, so that there was no time TO stool,
and consequently there was thin, very
thin. stand; third, the excessive hot
weather the first twenty days OF July.
causing blight. Wheatheads form and
ill from the bottom upwards, and the
heat was so great aud constant that the
top OF the heads dried up, and have no
grain in them.
The corn crop looks splendidly; great
promise. Other coarse grains and roots
look well,
What is true of the Iowa heat crop,
IS true in degree. OF the entire north
western spring wheat crop.
We quote the following from other
States:
Special Correspond ,nce to The Inter-Ocean.l
MBNAsHA, Wis, July . 1876,
As harvest time" is approaching, all
Are interested to know wha. the pros
poets are to- bountiiul crop. Your cor
has taken pats n inquire of
farmers in this section vase The crop
prospects are, and thinA TIE following
statement can be relied upo1: Winter
wheat. in maay 'o.alities. is Al failure;
what remains is considerably rusted.
Spring wheat will be ; fair crop
not heavy; think Is to 20 bushels ger
acre will &c a fair estimate 70 place
upon the yield Tue past few years AZ