Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-22
Minnesota Crop Reports.

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The Marshall Lyon Co.. Messenger says,
there are nearly 2,500 acres of new breaking
west of the town, which touches and is al
parties. How is that for one patch of this
years breaking.
Morris Stevens county Tribune, Aug Is:
In Glenwood, the harvest is not very prom
ising, owing to rust, blight, lodging and the
ack of hands. Hot weather has ripened the
grain too quick. We hope to have enough
for bread.
Benson Swift county AdcocGte, Aug. 16:
The roar of the threshing machine is heard
II. p. Allen is the first man to thresh his
wheat that we have heard of, and it turned
out fourteen bushels to the acre. Wheat
will be mostly No. 2, owing to it being badly
shrunken.
Princeton (GiIIe Laos county Union,
Aug IA. The Star claims for Sherburne
county the largest average yield of wheat to
the acre of any county in the State. Mile
Laos county will average three bushels
more to the acre than Sherburn, and don't
you forget it.
Elk River (Sherburne county, Star, Aug.
~ a. o.~SId1S, VI 141NOu1hs says Oudb OL4O
farmers of that enterprising burg are agree
ably disappointed regarding the wheat crop.
1t will turn out a great deal better than they
expected. Those who have threshed are
realizing all the way from eighteen to thirty
bushels to the acre, and good, fair wheat at
that.
Faribault Democrat, Aug. 16: Some of the
new wheat from the farm of w. r. Bald
win was made into -four at Hillyer & Bing-
hams mill last week, and it proved to be Of
excellent quality. The wheat was light,
weighing but ffty-three pounds to the
bushel, and requiring six and half bushels
to make a barrel of -four. Mr.. Balwin's
wheat Is far better than the average in this
section, probably owing to the fact that his
seed was pure fife, procured direct from
Canada for that purpose.
Shakopee (Scott county, Argus, Aug. Is:
Stacking Misunderstanding in full blast.
The following statistics do not look as if the
crops in Scott county are a failure: Frank
Clifford, of Louisville, threshed $40 bushels
of wheat from twenty-six acres, an average
of nearly twenty five bushels per acre. 1t
weighed ffty-eight pounds per bushel.
Grade No. 2. One of Sheriff Flaherty' 8
yielded twenty-five bushels per acre. The
average of his whole farm was fifteen bush
els. Better by five bushels than he ex-
pected.
Dodge Center Dodge county, Press, Aug:
Is. A look at the crops IN Olmstead and
Winona counties develops the fact that the
grain was better secured east of Rochester
than in this or the western part of instead
county. About one-half of the grain is in
the stack or threshed. Between Rochester
and st. Charles we saw two horsepower ma
| chimes in operation, while beyond st. Charles
more machines were running, and all by
steam. On our return Tuesday we noticed
four steam threshers between ST. Charles and
Lewiston.
Cambridge City Qsanti county, Press,
Aug. 15: Corn viii be an unusually good
crop in this county this year and will GER
tainly ripen Def, re cold weather comes.
Early kinds are already nearly out of the
way of the frost. The Wentworth Bros.
have threshed two lots of wheat this season
in Livonia that have gone over thirty BUSH
els to the acre, and Mr.. Burnell had oats
which yielded sixty bushels per acre. While
few fields will yield very good crop of
wheat, we fear from all accounts we receive
that there will not be much more than half a
crop for the whole county. The hot sun
ripened the grain before the berry got well
| filed.
Rochester (Olmsted county, Post, Aug
16: With wheat not more than a third OF
half crop and oats somewhat damaged by
the rains, it is gratifying to know that ht
corn crop is excellent, and good crop of
corn is something not to be despised or
counted as of but little worth. 1t is claimed
by good judges that it is more profitable to
raise corn to fatten pork at So per hundred
than to raise wheat at 90 cents per bushel
This theory may or may not be strictly cor
rect, but there can be no doubt that it would
pay our farmers to plant more corn. It is q
sure crop, and does not exhaust the land;
besides it leaves the ground IN good shape
for small grain. And then, the crop is
easily raised. without great expense, and is
an excellent feed for most animals on the
farm.
Lake City Leader, Aug. IL: Fred. w. Win
tiers, of Mt. Pleasant, skipped ninety acre
on his farm this harvest. which he will not
cut on account of blight. Wheat on Jane!
Crumps' farm, Clifford, averaging from
three to four and q half bushels pc
load-threshing out of the shock
One hundred and ninety bushels thu
result of one days diligent work
Jos. Scott, of Central Point, threshed his
wheat on Thursday, and he was, himself
surprised at the yield. He threshed twenty
acres, and got $50 bushels of No. wheat
So pounds to the bnshel, machine measure
This is twenty-eight bushels to the acre, enc
is the very best crop we have heard OF this
year-quality and quantity cons idered.
was of the Lost Nation variety.
Alexandria douglas count y Post, Aus
16: Last Friday Frank REYNOLDS PIT Ii
last of his big grain crop in the stack. He
is probably ahead of every other farmer il
the county. A large part of his grain wa
cut with header. His stack yards look lik
villages. His crop is excellent. Silas Hume
says he never raised better grain than he ha
this year. Along down through the LAX
Mary woods, everything is luxuriart. Out O.
the Lake Mary prairie the crops are all good
There was some delay in the harvesting
owing to scarcity of help and the lodge
condition of some of the grain fields. tn
cutting was still in progress last Tuesday
The yield is less than had been expected
probably about fifteen to eighteen bushel
per acre. Hounsel, Robinson, Russell, tn
Colbys, the McKillips, Davis and Steele, al
all favored, and so are all the other farmer
whose broad acres we saw last Monday al
ternoon'
Litchfeld (Meeker county, Independent
Aug. ID: Sorghum cane is growing fast thi
favorable weather. IF no bad luck oyertake
the crop, this section win be able to suppl
q the State with syrup. The oat crop in thi
county is simply immense. Some expec
over 100 bushels to the acre. w. 81. Dan
threshed some the other DAY yielding seven
\ ty-fye bushels per acre. The first new whea
brought into st. Cloud was from piec