Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-10
CROPS IN MINNESOTA.

CROPS IN MINNESOTA.
Kasson dodge county, Republican, Aug. 8:
The wheat harvest is nearly completed in this
region.
Mower Co. Transcript, Aug. s: Our farmers
are busy cutting and stacking loose, wherever
they can get on to the ground. 1t is slow work
and expensive handling grain IN such condition.
Preston (Fillmore county, Republican, Aug.
| g. Hard Fife wheat, which has given Minneso-
ia a reputation both for wheat and -four all
over the world, comes the nearest to being an
| unfailing crop this year OF any other quality.
So say the farmers.
| Glenc. Register, Aug. 8: Theo. E. Knowles,
OF Red Wing, who is around reporting the
wheat prtysoeets in the interest of several large
| banking firms III the State. reached Glencoe on
| his travels Tuesday. He says that the outlook
| for the farmer. who only a few weeks ago had
| the promise of most bountiful harvest, is
| everywhere discouraging.
| Knshford STIR, Aug s: From d. b. Sprague
| of this city, who has just returned from trip
| of several days along the line of the Southern
/ Minnesota railway, we learn that wheat Will
not average more than seven bushels per acre,
/ excepting strip across the ridge between
Lanesboro and Ny1off. which will probably
yield ten bushels per acre.
st. Charles Union, Aug. from reports re-
ccived from farmers who have thresned their
wheat we are led to believe that the yield in
this section. on an average, Will not be more
than twelve bushels per acre, of the amount OF
| wheat harvested. Taxing the acreage into
consideration Chat which is worthless) and the
average yield will be considerably lessened.
Window Reporter, Aug. s: Grain cutting is
about over for this year, and stacking and
threshing both just commenced, but the yield
of wheat is not the best Very much VIII go
at No. 2, and some rejected. Some grain has
not been cut machines not being put into the
field principally because it was SO badly lodged
that no implement could cut it.
Sibley County Independent, Aug. O.: Moth
| ing new has been developed in regard to our
S crops. The average is estimated all the way
from six to twelve bushels; ten bushels Is prob
ably not far out Of the way. ID. 7. Butler did
. the first threshing of the season. The thresh
: ing was done on barley, which averaged forty
: bushels per acae.
s St. Cloud Times, Aug 7: large proportion
of the grain crop of this county has been cut
but great deal is still unstacked. We hav
e heard of few large fields OF lodged gran
!, which have not yet been touched. The Whea
= is generally reported as small and shrunken
y but dry and hard. From present indication
like what was expected a month ago.
D. Wells (Faribault county, Adyocate, Aug. 1S
* One man lust east of here has threshed HI
a grain and reports yield of twelve and a hall
1e bushels of good No. 2 wheat to the acre. JOIN
Penny's farm of ninty acres Is rapidly 1aliln
before the harvester, and he reports 1T as turn
ing out far more favorable than was ante
paIed few weeks ago. Harvesting Is fuiy II
augurated, and the ear can hear hundreds Q
machines humming away at the tangled graz
u" lust as if it would go twenty bushels TO u
acre instead of five Or ten bushels.
LIE Sueur Sentinel, Aug. s: The wheat ha
~ vest in this vicinity also the cat harves
~ was about all completed on the prairies ia
OF week and in the timber all that Is worth Gu
G.. ting was done the middle of the present wee
Indeed, throughout the timber, where the sol
Il were comparatively new, much OF the VINE
q. lodged The early part of July, and Would n
~ pay for harvesting, although some OF 1t n
nd been cut simply because farmers felt that tn
IN mustsave all they possibly could. Inc lar
of the harvest has been almost double that
ing ordinary years.
I'M, Wright Comfy Times, Aug. 8: John Sadl
asst Princeton miller, says that wheat contain
smut should not be threshed until it has &c
en- through the sweating process IN .ne s.a'
Goood -four cannot be made from it If it swe
COW in the bin The following estimate OF 7
wheat crop along<he main line of the St. n
ces- & Pacific railroad is made by careful obse
Nth err: From Minneapolis to Litchheld, TIVE
| bushels per acre of No. 2 wheat; fr
Litchfield to DeGraf, seventeen bushels; II
DeGraff to Morris, twelve bushels; from NJ
ris to Herman, seventeen bushels.
Chaska Weekly Valley Herald, Aug. 8: sil
our last issue, in which we stated that
the losses in this country by the late hail sto
ium would approximate to S6O, 0OO, we have Vlsi
a every part of the district touched by the ste
astic and after very careful estimate OF dana
lace, assisted by the best judgments IN the dIne
enry neighborhoods, and are confident that we
and nearly correct IN saying that the damage Ak
ster, the insurance will not exceed the sum
,apo- $4,000, which in many instances fall I
'ony; the shoulders Of those that cannot wei sa,r
In the burden. We are pleased TO see, ho"
Fos- that our frien DIS are in way discouraged
ision their ill-luck, and that they are lmpped
nday the true Western spirit OF drlve right ahe
,uaa Owatonna Journal, Aug. 8: Mr.. Az
con Sehler thinks his wheat will yield Il
bushels to the acre. Good judges who
dry. examined the wheat place the average OF
county at six bushels per acre. The re
are very conflicting, however. Judge
who visited Medford this
atural tain the condition of the wheat crop, in
Bishop us that the yield will be from eight to Gig
,e life bushels per acre. He places the average 8
arious or twelve bushels. Including West p
snomi- which runs into Deerfeld, and which co
,ongre- the bost wheat, he thinks the average "
.hyt0r. fully UP 70 twelve buaasas,