Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-20


and in politics hereafter he will be practically
a CIPHER.
MINNESOTA CROPS.
Rush City Post, Aug. 16: p. II. 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.
Stoves Wykof, Gilmore county, Dollar
Weekly, Aug. 16: Corn promises to be the
best crop raised in this part of the State. It
ought to be raised more generally by our
farmers, and pork and beef with it. Diver
sifed farming will pay.
Blue Earth City Post, Aug. II: The
crop of wheat in this county is being secured
in better condition than was expected. 1t
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-
average yield in this county at not less than
acre.
Dundas (Rice county, Ne1os, Aug. II:
Fire works nearly every night-burning
straw stacks. Wheat may turn out better
after "sweating'' 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.
Mantorville dodge county, Express, Aug.
16: John Edmond, of Claremont, is now
threshing from field of wheat that appeared
to look as we'll as any field in the west slice,
and the grain weighed ffty-two pounds t.,
the bushel; all of which indicates that the
bulk of the wheat in this section will go re-
jected.
Glenwood, pope county, Eagle, Aug. 16:
The harvest in this county is now fully COM
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 Brock 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 is the reported yield. A gale ac-
companying 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
Breckenridge to Fishers Landing, develop a
general estimate of from twenty to twenty
five bushels per acre, mostly No. wheat
At Fishers Landing they claim larger
yield of better wheat than anywhere in the
State.
st. James (Watonwan county, Journal
Aug. II: steam thresher was put in mo
ton on F. B. Bass farm yesterday, and it is
estimated that it will take about ten days t.
finish the wheat to be threshed. Mr. Bas.
had 700 acres in wheat, about one-ffth O.
which, when cut. was in such shape that j
coulu not be bound and stacked. The who'll,
will probably average nine bushels pei
acre.
| Redwood Falls Gazette, Aug. 16: Har
vesting in this vicinity has been slow ane
laborious. The majority of farmers are don,
cutting, but many who have large crops ar,
not. Threshing is pretty generally unde
way; and there will be more grain than farm
ers expected two weeks ago. The quality O
wheat will be poor. The yield of oats i
enormous. In fact. every kind of crop i
, good except wheat. Mr.. Thomas Mcmillan
has threshed his wheat crop and the result
exceeds his expectations. On the Birun
farm it averaged twenty-one bushels to tn
acre. On the Dolvin farm about sixteen
On the latter farm he had about sixty acre
of wheat. There is none of it will pass a
} No. without great deal of winnowing.
Albert Lea Standard: Chester Sea-le,
farmer living south of this city, informs q
that he has discovered that wheat straw j
covered with myriads of small black bugs nc
much larger than the point of q needle
He discovered them accidentally by putin
; some wheat on a white cloth. They are
small that they are visible to the naked ey
3 only by taking straw and shaking it owe
5 white paper OF cloth, when they will collee
in such large quantities that they can b
seen. Mr.. Searle thinks they are what in
jured the wheat. instead of the weather
. He has forwarded a quantity of these il
sects to the commissioner of agriculture
3 Washington, for the purpose of ascertainin
; their species.
], Rochester Record and Union, August 1!
: Mayor Williams returned this week fror
i looking after his farm machinery interests i
t Goodhue county, and brings rather discour
aging report from that the most extensive, an
heretofore the most successful wheat pre-
ducing district of the State. He converse
0 with many of the leading farmers of tia
j county. and the average yield is not place
t much above five bushels per acre, or il
equivalent in No. ] wheat. One farmer VIII
has threshed, reported an average of fiftee
bushels per acre of wheat weighing fort,
Q seven pounds to the bushel, which, whe
It properly screened would not yield over eigt
g bushels of inferior No. 2 wheat. Anothe
Z man threshed all one afternoon to obtai
fifty-seven bushels, inferior in quality to tt
poorest screenings of last year. he says tt
s disappointment in the failure of the crop
It almost overwhelming, as in many instance
9 it will not pay the expense of harvesting
/ AS the work Of threshing progresses, II
: Disappointment will increase, and some WI
expected ten to fifteen bushels of wheat p,
acre will hardly get five,