Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-22
Crop Reports.

Rush City Post, Aug. 16: P. 81. Flynn
has been threshing this week fer himself
and his wheat turned out better than was
expected, about fifteen bushels to- the acre;
grades No. 1.
Blue Earth City Post, Aug. II: The
crop of wheat in this county is being secured
in better condition than was expected. It
has been harvested and stacked unbound, or
loose" as the farmers express it, and If no
heavy rains come on it will yield an average
crop of No. ? wheat.
Glenwood, Pope county, Press, Aug. II:
As near as We can learn, the yield of wheat
in this section seems to be as great, if not
| greater on an average than in any other por-
ton of the State. Good judges estimate the
average yield in this county at not less than
fifteen, and probably eighteen, bushels per
| acre. -
Dundas( (Rice county, Neses, Aug. II:
Fire works nearly every night-burning
| straw stacks. Wheat may turn out better
after 'tsweating'' in the stack. Like those
| in days of old, We can live on "good, hard
| corn" Two or three hundred acres of
| wheat have been burned over out on East
Prairie. -. ....s.
. MantorEiHe dodge county, Erpyess, Aug.
16: John Edmond, of Claremont, is now
threshing from field OF. wheat that appeared
to look as well as any field in the west slice,
and the grain weighed ffty-two pounds to
the bushel; all of which indicates that the
bulk of the wheat in this section will 20 re-
jected. va: -.
Glenwood, pope county Eagle, Aug. 16:
The harvest in this county is now fully COM
pleted, and the farmers express themselves
generally as being satisfied as to the esti-
mated yield: Some few farmers have thresh-
ed their grain, wheat yielding as high as
twenty bushels per acre, and oats in some
cases as high as eighty bushels per acre.
| .Luverne (Rock county, Herald, Aug. 16:
Those who have commenced threshing re-
port the yield of wheat as being. greater than
was anticipated. Fifteen to twenty bushels
per acre M the reported yield. A gale ac-
companyingr shower Wednesday evening
blowed over several stacks of grain to the
west and southwest of town, and the subse-
quent rain washed the unprotected gram.
Crookston Polk county, Journal, Aug. 16:
The Red River valley takes the premium on
wheat this year: Inquiries at all points
along the ST, Paul & Pacific ext nsion, from
-
general estiMN3te of from twenty to twenty
| 1--WE bushels per acre, mostly No. 1 wheat.
At: Fishers Landing they claim 9 larger
yield of better wheat than anywhere in the
| State. =, - ..,4
II st. James (Watonwan county Journal,
Aug. IL: A'steam thresher was put in mo-
ton on F. B: Bass farm yesterday, and it is
estimated that it viii take about ten days to
finish the wheat to be threshed. Mr:. Bass
had 700 acres in wheat, about one-fifth of
which, when cut, was in such shape that it
ooulu not be bound and stacked. The whole
win probably, average nine bushels per
acre. i'@i.t ,:>c.a Il = ass>s1a K
Redwood FallA Gqzette, Aug. is: Har-
! vesting in this vicinity has been slow and
| laborious: The majority of farrners afe done
cutting, but many who have large crops. are
not. -Threshing is pretty generally under
way; and there will be more grain thar. farm
ersI expected, Two weeks ago. duality of
wheat will be poor. The yield of soats is
good except hheat. Mr.. Thomas is11cAfillan
has thrashedshis wheat crop and the result
exceeds his expectations. On ;thei Hrum
farm it averaged twenty one bushets 10 the
acre. On the, Dolvin farm about sixteen.
EOn the, latterifarm hshad about sixty acres
Fof wheat. There is none oft Yilla pass as
No. Witholt:e great deal Of moving.
L Albert Lea ;Standdrd: Chester ,Seatle,
farmer living southsiof thiscity, informs US
that he has discovered that wheat atrsw is
covered uithmSriads of small.tlsCk bugs not
much larger han the point 6f sS n1edle.
He diseoystea them accidentally IL putting
some wheat on;a white cloth. y They are so
small that they are visible to the naked eye
only by afaknk straw and shaking, 1t. over
white paper OF cloth, when they will collect
in such h1ge quantities that they Shn be
SEEN: ~ Mr.seal1e thinks they ats Whist in
jured Tho, wheat. instead sQf tAes weather.
He has fortarded a:iquantitysofH these in
sects TO DOM missioner u aRriG Gpltnre at
Washing ~, tor the purpose of lining
their opeeieS.s,.4.t. s fs,.laaQ e,ss
FLANNEL Cakes.-War quart If milk
with hstwo1onaces Of butter until thorough-
" mixed dissolve ateaspoenfn!! OF soda
insa Little rich. cream, and Add a. little
Ewarmimill12r Two peu1dsapf Aour,
with tYp t1hf onfuls 6f ,f,E5 1trtar,
and, ,sfiaSnho.t .the MIX .to .snGfle a 4 sthick
smoesh batter; BaRht seven h.is5gsa until
very 5thiek and light, and. add { esdnally
to the batter; beating It hard white pour
ing ths Sgss IA. Bake on I. .hGtt. lHiddle,