Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-08-08
Crop Reports.

Melrose Record, Aug. 2: Some farmers
in the county have already threshed their
rye, oats and barley, which yield we'll. Rye
As, oats IS to 70, and barley over 40 bushels
to the acre.
Chattield Fillmore county, Democrat,
Aug. 3: A gentleman informed us yesterday
that he had inspected field of wheat in this
vicinity, and he was confident that it would
yield eighteen bushels to the acre.
Redwood Gazette, Aug. l: The oats and
barley crops are remarkably fine. 1t is diff
ficult to say just how wheat will thresh out.
1t will certainly be very moderate yield,
ut the extent of the damage is not easily es-
timated.
Rush City Post, Aug. 2: Everybody in the
county, including the county officers, are
harvesting. The yield of grain through Sun
rise township, and in the timber country of
Chisago lake will be large, and the harvest is
getting we'll along.
Marshall Gyon county, Messenger, Aug.
3: 10 get back to No. wheat will seem q
little tough to our farmers, but the road that
way seems the broad guage this year. Some
man IN this county whose name we could
not learn. threshed grist of new wheat this
week. 1t was considered very light, but
went eigeteen bushels to the acre.
Pope County Press, Aug. 3: Some of the
farmers in this section state that now they
have commenced cutting their wheat they
ind 1t will not average as much as they e1-
pected. Wheat that they considered twenty
or twenty-five bushels per acre low esti-
mate short time ago, will probably not
yield more than fifteen bushels per acre.
But they have one consolation in the fact
that, If the yield is not SO great, the price
will be higher per bushel.
Lanesboro Gilmore county Journal,
Aug. g. Hard Fife wheat, which has given
Minnesota q reputation both for wheat and
Hour all over the world, comes the nearest
to being an unfailing crop this year of
any other Quality. Farmers ought to dis
card soft wheat altogether, and preserve
their worldwide reputation, which they can
not afford to exchange for any inferior
wheat even If they can obtain slight in
crease in yield byso doing.
Hokah Houston Co.. BLADE, Aug.
Winter wheat raised in the vicinity of Ho-
kah this year is said to be splendid. The
crop was Large and the quality good. Crop
reports from various parts of the county
continue discouraging, aud the average yield
OF wheat Is not placed at over ten bushels
per acra. Some fields will not be harvested,
as thescrop IS worthless. Oats are fiat to
the ground IN many places and farmers find
it very difficult to cut them. Corn is looking
well everywhere.
jackson Republic, Aug. 3: The week has
been good one for harvest and farmers
have improved the time. Reports indicate
mucn less rain here than in the country
round about. There were occasional light
showers the early part of this week, but not
enough TO particularly retard harvesting.
: me wheat harvest is well along, though
there has BEEN more or less trouble in secur-
ing machinery. for cutting. So much is
crlnkied and lodged that machines work
o. diy: bnt the crop is being gathered in as
rapidly as possible.
Sank Centre (Stearns county, Herald, Aug.
2: Most farmers in this section have been
busy harvesting this week. The oats is
pretty much all fcnf, and wheat harvest is
progressing rapidly. From what We can
learn from. inquiryfrornf farmers, the weld of
oats is unusually large, some pieces going as
high as sixty and seyenty-five bushels
to the acre. The wheat, which but for the
extreme hot weather. during the ripening
season, would have been the largest crop ever
1 harvested az in this section, will still yield
good average crop. On the clay land where
g few weeks ago farmers were calculating on
twenty live bushels to the acre, they will reap
about twenty, the shrinkage being caused
mostly by rust and smut. Some exceptional
fields have nearly escaped damage and will
yield enormously, while other pieces will fall
below the average, but we have heard of no
fields which viii not pay we'll for harvesting.