Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22
Minnesota Crop Reports.

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- The Marshall Lyon Coz Messenger says,
there are nearly {, 800 acres of new breaking
west Of the town, which touches and is al
most one piece though done by different
parties. How is that for one patch of this
years breaking. # - a.: .-.
r: 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. ..~.,...-.-gs..rszs.sss
Princeton (Mille Lacs county, Union
Aug. A.: The Star claims for sherburne
county the largest average yield of wheat to
the acre of any county in the State. Mile
Lacs county will average three bushels
more to the acre than Sherburn, and don't
you forget it.
+ Faribault Democrat, Aug. 16: Some of the
new wheat from the farm of w. Il. Bald
win was made into -four at Hillyer d Blng-
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 4 barrel of flour. Mr.. Balwln's
section, probably owing to the fact that his
seed was pure fife, procured direct from
Canada for that purpose.
Shakopee (Scott county0 argus, Aug. 10:
Stacking Misunderstanding in full blast.
The olloving statistics do not look as if the
crops in Scott county are failure: Frank
Clifford, OF Louisville, threshed $40 bushels
of wheat from twenty-si1 acres, an average
of nearly twenty-five bushels per aore. It
weighed ffty-eight pounds per bushel.
| Grade No. 2. One of Sheriff Flahertys
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 Olmstead
county. About one-half of the grain is in
the stack or threshed. Between Rochester
and st. Charles we saw two horse power 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.
Glencoe Enterprise: A short time since
as Fred Schumacher, lad of about Is
summers, of the town of Silver Lake, was
endeavoring to stop pair of runaway
horses, attached to a reaper, he was run
over, his left arm being caught in the sickle,
and both bones cut through just
below the elbow, leaving the low
er part of the arm hanging
by small portion of the flesh or muscle.
DR.. Greaves was called, and thought ampu-
tation necessary, but the parents of the boy
would not listen to that, SO the limb was set
and bandaged, though there is but little
| hope of saving it. He received several 9th
er severe bruises and flesh wounds.
Cambridge City Qsanti county, Press,
Aug. Is: Corn will be an unusually good
crop in this county this year and will Ger
tainly ripen before 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.. Burneu had oats
which yielded sixty bushels per acre. While
a few fields will yield a very good crop of
wheat, we fear from all accounts we receive
that there will not be much more than half
crop for the whole county. The hot sun
ripened the grain before the berry got we'll
filled.
Rochester (Olmsted county, Post, Aug.
16: With wheat not more than a third or
half crop and oats somewhat damaged by
the rains, it is gratifying to know that the
corn crop is excellent, and a good crop of
corn is something not to be despised or
counted as of but little worth. It 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 80 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 a
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. II: Fred. w. Win
ters, of Mt. Pleasant, skipped ninety acres
on his farm this harvest, which he will not
cut on account of blight. Wheat on James
Crumps' farm, Clifford, averaging from
three to four and half bushels per
-threshing out of the shock.
! One hundred and ninety bushels the
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
63 pounds to the bushel, machine measure.
This is twenty-eight bushels to the acre, and
is the very best crop we have heard of this
year-quality and quantity cons idered. I
was of the Lost Nation variety.
Alexandria Douglas county, Post, Aug.
16: Last Friday Frank Reynolds put the
last of his big grain crop in the stack. He
is probably ahead of every other farmer in
the county. A large part of his grain was
cut with header. His stack yards look like
villages. His crop is excellent. Silas Humes
says he never raised better grain than he has
Mary woods, everything is luxuriant. Out on
the Lake Mary prairie the crops are all good.
There was some delay in the harvesting,
owing to scarcity of help and the lodged
condition of some of the grain fields. The
cutting was still In progress last Tuesday.
The yield is less than had been expected,
probably about fifteen to eighteen bushels
per acre. Hounsell, Robinson, Russell, the
Colbys, the McKillips, Davis and Steele, are
all favored, and so are all the other farmers
whose broad acres we saw last Monday af
ternoon'
LIE Sueur Sentinel, Aug. Is: The wheat
crop, as far as threshers' reports have been
received in this vicinity, is turning out
better than we had reason to antic-
ipate. The fact should be borne in mind, as
a farmer remarked a few days ago. that dur
ing the twenty-odd years that-wheat has
been grown to any extent in Minnesota, this
is the first year that there has not been a good
average crop grown on the timber lands of
the State, and the first year that there has
been anything like failure of the wheat
crop on the prairies. A failure of the wheat
crop once IN twenty years, SO far as being
detrimental to the State, only proves the
wonderful wheat producing properties of our
soil, and may serve as useful remainder to
farmers that successful farming through a
series of years depends upon diversity of
crops. Itrarely pays for any man to stake
all he has upon single chance.
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