Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-20
From Our strife Exchanges.


Worthinston Aduance, July 1s: Sons
farmers are already through harvesting bar
ley. The harvest comes week or two ear
lier than last year. Another soaking rain
on Tuesday and grain has been beaten down
considerably.
Window Reporter, July Is: Harvest APP
proaches. Barley is now being cut. Wheat
will begin to fall about the last of next week
The present warm weather begins to make
the wheat fields look golden. The promise
of fine harvest never was better.
Caledonia Courier, July IS: Corn has
been making very rapid progress since warm
weather made its appearance. Hay harvest
is now in full last. The crop IS very large,
and the grass would have beeIi of supe-
rior qualify were it not for the recent heavy
rains.
Rushford Star, July Is: Wheat has suf-
fered terribly during the past week by blight,
rust and Judgment, and farmers inform us
that fifteen bushels per acre will be large
yield. There won't be barley enough in this
vicinity this season to supply one brewery,
and what there is will be No. 3.
Mankato Union, July 10: We have made
inquiry of parties from different localities
in the county in regard to the wheat crop.
All say that it is not materially damaged yet.
A good deal of unnecessary alarm has arisen
from reports circulated by those who are
always out of sorts, and by inexperienced
persons who can with difficulty tell wheat
/ from oats.
Plainview Neos, July II: The late heavy
rains have left the grain in bad shape. Wheat
| oil lon &c oil Inhf Rnff hot
land is badly tangled. Barley is almost a
failure; good for nothing but for feed. A.
Hodgerson informs us that he has twenty
acres of wheat which he will be obliged to
| pillow Under. 1t is covered with black rust.
This is the only instance of black rust We
have heard of this season.
st. Charles Union, July IL: Owing to the
wind rain and heat combined, wheat has
been seriously injured in this region of coun-
try. In addition to being badly tangled, rust
and smut have set IN, and some pieces of the
| Lost Nation variety are reported as damaged
twenty to forty per cent. The damage
seems to be largely confined to this variety.
The harvest promises to be hard one, ow-
ing to SC much grain of all kinds being bad
ly lodged. We do not indulge in any
sanguine expectation of there being an aver
age crop of wheat in this vicinity.
Owatonna Journal, July IS: The hay
| crop in this county has been considerably
!, damaged by the rains. We hear reports
: from different parts of the county that the
wheat is affected by the blight. The most Sc
rious complaints come from Havana. In this
county, so far as we can ascertain, the rust is
4 confined to the leaves of the wheat, and we
3 have been unable to hear of one instance
l where the stalk is affected. 1t is generally
3 believed, however, that the berry will be
r more or less injured, and that it will not
I grade as high as it did last year, when nearly
all the wheat was No. l.
. Wright County Times, July IS: The hot
f moist weather has been remarkably favorable
!. for corn, and the prospects are now good fo
at least an average crop. There seems to b,
d more or less smut in all the wheat on tn
a prairie but not enough in many fields to d.
O any other damage than diminish the yield o
e grain. In the timber there are some com
d plants of rust, and in places the grain i
g pretty badly lodged. Some of the farmer
IS on the prairie began cutting their whea
d yesterday, and others expect to start in to
r day. Next week harvesting will begin il
J. earnest on most of the farms on the prairie
n LIE Sueur Sentinel, July Is: The past te,
y, days of hot weather have had somewha
k damaging effect upon the wheat crop, BIT
a. the reports of rust and blight in some local
I'd ties have done comparatively little damage
ID az the frequent rains have kept the stalk
al green and washed the rust off. A large pre-
Sc portion of the wheat and oats, however,
X lodged, some of it fiat, and that that he
e. been down several weeks will in great pa
he be worthless. And from this latter cause,
m this vicinity, nearly all the appreciate dan
We age will result. The hot suns of the pa
he week have rapidly matured the wheat, mue
at of which is now in the dough and ougl
r. to be cut this week. At best, large pc
AFT ton of the crop must become dead ripe bt
no fore it can be cut.