Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-15
Crop Reports.

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Blue Earth City Post, Aug. 10: All farm
ers who come to this Office report their crops
badly damaged, and hardly worth cutting.
The weld will not exceed ten bushels per
acre.
Swift County AdUocate, Aug 8: The wheat
crop in this county viii fall short Of the es-
innate made three weeks ago, at least so
per cent. Yet the farmers feel pretty well,
for they think the price will be good.
Glenwood Eagle, Aug. 2: The harvest is
progressing favorably, although wheat has
been considerably damaged with smut, rust
and blight. The yield, if the crop is proper
" secured, will be above the average Har-
vest hands are scarce.
Freedom County Standard, Aug. 8: The
present week will about finish the cutting of
wheat in this county. The yield will not be
over eight bushels per acre, and possibly not
more than six, of poor wheat, very little of
which viii grade as high as No. 2.
LIE Roy Independent, Aug. 10: Wheat in
the north part of the county is being cut
| largely with cradles this season, the severe
rains accompanied by winds having lodged
a considerable quantity of it SO that it is inn
possible to cut it with haryesters.
Cannon Falls Beacon, Aug. 9: From the
most reliable information we can gather
from farmers, we fear that the wheat yield
/ hereabouts will be No. 2 at best Not over
| one-half the number of bushels raised last
year will be produced this season in this vi
4 cinity.
Anoka Union, Aug. 10: James Mccain
brought the first new wheat to the Touring
mill last week Friday, the amount being 900
bushels, all No. /, for which he received 80
cents bushel. One of the fields averaged
twenty bushels to the acre and the other
eighteen.
Dundas (Rice Coz Neps, Aug. 10: The
best wheat is found on the poorest soil
this year. There will be little No. wheat
in this vicinity, and our millers say it will be
difficult to secure any fit to make into -four.
This is a bad state of things, but we must
make the best of it.
Granite Falls Journal, Aug. s: The wheat
here is better than is generally reported, al
though grain that was not cut before the last
heavy rain is shrunken and discolored. Our
farmers need not feel too much the loss of
one-third of their grain, as with their losses
the price of wheat will correspondingy in
crease.
Albert Lea Enterprise, Aug. 8: The
reports from all parts of the county are not
very fiattering for half a crop of wheat.
Most all we have talked with say the yield
will not be more than four or eight bushels
to the acre, on an average. This is rather
discouraging, but the truth will soon be
known when the threshing machines start
up.
Wilmar Repu5gicdn-GdSette, Aug. 8: Har-
vesting in the county is probably little
more than half done. 1t is impossible at this
time to give anything like correct estimate
of the yield, but it will not be likely to run
much above an average of fifteen bushels to
the acre for the whole county, and much of
this will grade No. 2 and No. 3. The best
wheat is in the northeastern towns, and the
next best in the northwestern towns, and
; the poorest in the southwestern towns.
Sank Centre Herald, Aug. 8: We noticed
several good citizens vending their way to
the harvest field last Sunday morning. Ne
: cessity knows no law. A large amount of
grain will be lost in this section in conse-
quence of the scarcity of harvest hands and
the LODGED condition of the grain. Anton
Schaffer is one of the unlucky farmers this
year. He has a seventy-fve acre field of
Lost Nation wheat which is SO tangled, rust
ed and smutted that he concluded it would
not pay to cut it.
Goodhue County Republican, Aug. 8: A
hard days drive through six townships of
this county gave us an opportunity to exam :
inc the wheat crop quite particularly. We
shall not exceed one-third of an average
crop, and that of an inferior quality, No.
and rejected. This, when our prospects
were so bright, wi prove great disappoint-
ment. not only to the farmers, but to all our
people. But as no human power caused or
could avoid the calamity, we must accept the
situation with as good grace as possible.
t Red Wing (Goodhue Coz Republican, Aug.
| 8: On Thursday, Aug. LIST, on the farm of
Peter Foote, known as the Pierce farm,
Hans Denim, who has eighty acres of the
farm rented, was regulating his reel, when
his horses kicked over the tongue and got
scared and ran off. Denim ran to catch his
team, but missing his hold, the reel caught
and pulled him into the sickle, cutting the
flesh from his elbow to the wrist, cutting his
hand off and cutting one leg all to pieces.
| He bled to death before the doctor could get
I to his assistance. He leaves wife and one
child.
{ Caledonia Courier. Tramps were hume +
GUS in the Town of Brownsville, last Sunday
S The forenoon session for that day was four
fights and the afternoon five. During the
, afternoon session slight exchange took
parade was beautiful, as they were seen
! such as they were, marching to the New
: York house in all their glory. Law is strict
ly enforced on the poor tramps, and always
at home in the eyes of those that greet them,
but when their money is gone they are left
7 in the wind.
Rochester Record and Union, Aug. 8:
| The opinion is expressed that wheat viii
e not be over half crop, and a portion of
$ that unstable There is apprehension that
much of the wheat viii not fit for aithar
. flour or feed. Mr.. Bamber felates his sx-
!. perience with winter wheat in Ohio, where,
/ one wet season, several years since, the
grain was blighted and turned red at one
{ end, making what was known as sick
wheat" He says his hogs refused to touch
the bran second time, and the fionr was
: worthless. There is probably very little
wheat in Southern Minnesota that was not
5 more or less injured by the scalding hot
$ weather.
e Worthington Adcdace, Aug. 8: Messrs.
, James Gown, L. M. Porter and George II.
s Carr, of Adrian, were in town on Tuesday and
{ looked in upon the AdedacC. They report
4 all crops good in the western part of the
/ county except wheat which from 81 ght, wet
weather, crinkling, lodging, etc., will not
, yield above half crop. F, j. Porter, of
Grand Prairie, who has cut several hundred
acres, finds that the header is good ma
chine 10 cut lodged wheat, as it gathers the
!, wheat into the box, and saves it nearly all.
Mr.. GOWN spent few days in Bieelow and
Ransom, and reports the estimate of wheat