Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-05
CROPS IN MINNESOTA.

be reasonably good, though not as good as
last year.
Howard Lake Wright county, Peoples
Aug. 1: Many farmers are COM
planning of down grain.
Little Falls transcript, Aug. 1: Through
out the entire northern portion of the State.
crops of all kinds are in splendid condition.
Madelia Times, Aug. 2: On account of
the grain being lodged and crinkled more
or less, the cutting progresses slowly. Many
fields of oats have to be cut one way.
Melrose Record, Aug. 2: Some farmers
in the county have already threshed their
rye, oats and barley, which yield well. Rye
45, oats 65 to 20, and barley over 40 bushels
to the acre.
Morris (Steyens county, Tribune, Aug. 1:
The crops in this vicinity are nearly all har-
vested, and the most careful estimates place
the yield at an average of about twenty three
bushels per acre for wheat.
Rochester Record md Union, Aug. @:
Mr.. Harmon, who lives about two miles
southwest of the city, says he has 100 acres
of wheat which will yield twenty bushels to
the acre. 1t is on grub land.
Glencoe Enterprise, July 81: The yield
in the county will average about twelve
bushels to the acre, where three weeks ago
the prospect was that it would reach from
twenty to thirty bushels per acre.
LIE Sueur Sentinel, Aug. 1: There is some
comfort, mid the thickening disappoint-
ments of the wheat crop, that the oat crop
has generally been excellent and the corn
and potato crops now indicate unusually
heavy yields.
Winona Herald, Aug. 9: In this county,
as we'll as in many other counties in sonth-
ern Minnesota, scarcely half an average crop
of wheat in quantity can be expected, while
the quality is certainly poor. Barley is said
to be almost worthless.
Ereeborn county Standard, Aug. l.: The
rains this week have still further damaged
the wheat crop and delayed the harvest. We
do not think the average yield of this county
will be eight bushels per acre, while very
little if any will grade No. 2.
st. Charles Times, Aug. 2: Farmers are
busy cutting their grain. The ground Is
rather wet, reapers cutting in considerably
making it heavy work for teams. Should
it continue fair the balance of the week, nc
doubt the bulk of the cutting will be com
pleted.
St. Cloud Jour'nal-Press, Aug. 1: Mr..
Geo. r. Whitney, of Rich Prairie. Morrison
county, was in the city to-day. He says the
farmers there are busily engaged in cutting
and stacking their grain; that the berry i.
full and plump; that there is no smut, ane
but little rust.
Mortified (Rice county,, Journal, Aug. l
The farmers were pretty thick around towr
on last rainy Thursday. The most hopeful
report we could get from any of them wa
half crop of poor wheat, and the rain wa
not improving the prospect. Twelve or fit
| teen bushels to the acre was the limit.
Wilmar Republican-Gasette, Aug. l 4; Tn
farmers are very busy with their harvest
About all the oats are harvested, and there j
a good crop. The wheat is not as good a
was expected. The hot weather ripened tn
grain too quick, and some of it is shrunl
very bad. AS bad as it is, we look for abou
twenty bushels to the acre.
| Faribault Democrat, Aug. 2: The las
three or four days have been excellent 70
harvesting and the farmers are busy gather
ing their grain together. In most localitie
the crop is badly damaged, but there ar
some fields that yield we'll. The averag
yield Of Rice county may reach ten bushel
per acre; but very little of it will be No.
Mazappa Tribune, July 81: Harvestin
was pretty generally commenced in thi
neighborhood on Monday and Tuesday last
and on Thursday we had another heavy rai1
lasting nearly all day. Judging from re
ports received here from different farmer
during the week, it is evident that the yiel
will be very slim-ranging between six an
fifteen bushels per acre in this and Goodhu
counties.
Shakopee Courier, Aug B: We are il
formed as we go to press that the damage
not going to be as extensive as was expecte
from the wild reports circulated by unrelis
BILE newspapers and their sensational CORE
spondents. But we must expect more II
ports of losses south of us. On Eide
Prairie, across the river northeast, the farm
ers escaped the hail.
Glendale (McLeod county, Register, Au
l: A ride of some thirty miles through
part of the best wheat growing section
J the county, during which we made a pers
nal examination of every wheat field passe
convinces us that the recent hot weather b;
damaged the crop more than one-half
quantity, and that the remainder will on
grade No. 3 at most.
Benson (swift county, 4Adoocate, Aug.
While our exchanges in different parts of Il
5 State are complaining of storms, blight
wheat, and only half a crop, we have We
a little to complain of, except the scarcity
3 harvesting machinery. OF course we sh
not have as many bushels to the acre as
y should have, but wheat will average fife
5 bushels to the acre throughout the county.
> Dodge Center Press, Aug. 2: The croa
ers of two or three weeks ago are happy,
far as the privilege of saying 81 told y
; 50" can make one happy. The wheat CT
IS failure, although it might be wor
Candid men put it at about half Gre
: Other crops are first rate, although bari
n will much of it be unfit for beer, and v
: have to be converted into pork and be
S Too bad about the barley.
! Red Wing argus, Aug. l: Reports fri
r farmers concerning the wheat crop in Goo
d hue county are very conflicting, some clai
e ing they will have nearly full crop, VIII
IS others say they will have small or no CT
II at all. The wet weather, rust, smut a
other calamities are reported in different s
IS tons, but from the best information we
# gather we should judge there will be on
q average about half CROP and the most
it will grade as No. 2 wheat.
@ Mantorville, dodge county, Enpr.
i Aug. 2: Crop reports from the surround
n country continue gloomy. Blight and r
l have done their work undoubtedly too W
u yet Notwithstanding the doleful strains
which farmers recount their losses by
:, above causes, a fair yield of rather infer