Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-31
minnesota Reports.


minnesota Reports.
Yesterday was not favorable day for the
harvest, frequent showers of rain, some Of
them quite heavy, visiting nearly every section
of the State. Reports at night, however, were
that the weather had cleared up finely, with
good, cool winds, under the operation of which
the grain and earth would dry out rapidly.
Mr.. r. Barden, who has just returned from
his Cedar Lake farm, Cottonwood county, re-
ports that the wheat in that section will turn
out between fifteen and eighteen bushels to the
acre, where the ground was properly plowed
last season. The yield on poor and late plant
ed lands will not be SO large.
The reporter met Hon. /. Donnelly yesterday,
just down from his Stevens county farm. He
says the harvest in that section is fully inaug-
urated, and that the grain is simply splendid.
He estimates the yield on his place at fully
twenty-five bushels of No. l per acre, and says
county. He says the much abused Lost Nation
variety does the best of any seed used in that
vicinity.
The following information is cleaned from
letters to COL j. B. Power, land commissioner
of the Northern Pacific:
Mr.. P. l.. Van Cleve writing from Belle
Prairie Morrison county, on the Brainerd
branch says: ''The weather still holds favor
! able for harvesting. We got some rain"
o. J. Andrews. Mapleton station, Cass coun-
ty, says: "The crops in this vicinity are re-
ported looking much better than when last
reported. Most all the farmers are cutting
their oats, barley and rye. Some few have
commenced to cut wheat. All the other crops
are looking splendid. For the past few days
very favorable for wheat"
Mr.. D. l.. Wellman, of Frazee City, Becker
county-specimens of whose growing grain
were mentioned in the GLOBE of yesterdaY-in
writing of the outlook in that vicinity makes
the following most encouraging statements:
Gall the wheat in this vicinity is good, from
20 to so bushels to the acre, and l have piece
on breaking that / expect IS bushels sure
There is no rust blight nor lodged grain more
than any other year, nor any smut except in
| the Lost Nation, and not more than one per
cent. in that SO far as have seen, and 1 have
examined number of fields already.
IF all tho Northern Pacific country is as
| we'll off as we are here, you and the Northern
| Pacific country will feel good, of course, to
find that we are sure pop every time for a
| good crop while the more southerly places
! fail.
my crops for six years have averaged over
twenty-five bushels per acre, through dry wea-
ther, grasshoppers, wet weather, blight and all
! the known disasters that wheat crop is subject
| to and I am always well satisfied with bridge
| that carries me safe over"
! Mr.. f. j. Rochpletz, Of Perham, Otter Tail
county. thus writes of the condition of the
crops in that county, Since date of last re-
port have made thorough personal examina-
ton of crops within distance of eight miles
| in every direction from this station and find
| the farmers estimates arc IF auvthinor Tor, low
The damage from rust blight and fallen grain
will not amount to per cent. on the worst
farm, and the great majority have not suffered
in the least from any cause. have never seen
in this section such uniformly strong, heavy
crops. 1 do not think any field I have
seen will go under twenty bushels
per acre, and many will run from twenty-five
| to thirty for the entire crop. Oats will go from
thirty-fve to eighty bushels per acre. Farmers
are all busy cutting. Even where they have
been delayed in securing harvesters and reapers
| they have commenced with the cradle. Rye
and barley all cut, except one or two late
sown fields. The hay crop is universally heavy.
Many farmers will secure ample supply on
prairie lands where they never had any before.
Corn is in splendid condition; average height,
81 to 80 feet, strong and well cared. Weather
very favorable for harvesting
| l.. Ashley, agent at Frazee City, Becker coun.
| ty: 1.-The weather for the last week has been
more favorable for wheat than during the
week before. Wheat is ripening fast, and most
! of the farmers can beg lin cutting this week. II
| looks well, no smut in it,
Audubon. Becker county: Crops look
splendid. Cutting commenced"
+. d. Carver, Little Falls, Morrison county
says: THE weather is cool aud pleasant. Har
vesting is we'll under way. The wheat crop il
not quite as good as we anticipated. The late
hot weather has shrunk the berry someW hat.
but on the whole we will have very fair crop,
from Is to 20 bushels per acre of wheat. Ali
| other crops good"
s. H. Babcock, Fargo, d. T., says: ''Har
vesting of wheat has commenced moderately i,
this vicinity. Next week the work will be gen
eral. Everything seems now in the most favor
able condition for most bountiful yield ane
successful gathering Of the CROP"
REMARKABLE GROWTH
/ Unless the Northern Pacific agent at Fraze
City has been imposed upon, Col. J. B. Power
land commissioner of the company, has in hi
office on Jackson street a striking evidence o
the wonderful ferti lily of the soil of the Ret
river valley. His evidence is in the form of
small bundle of Miller's oats, from the field
of George Arebleimers field. The oats were
sown, according to the statement made to tn
agent, on the 18th of June, and gathered Jul,
26th, thirty-nine days from seeding, in which
short time growth five feet Of straw head
ed out large and full has taken place. O.
course the grain is still too green for the sickles
Wheat Shipments from Dakota-A Mis
statement Corrected.
To the Editor of the Globe,
/ ], II. Drake a Co.'s circular in to-days pape
puts pakota's crop Of wheat for this year 4