The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-19
CROPS IN MINNESOTA,.* ::

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CROPS IN AIINNESOTA..*a
Albert Lea Freeborn county, STANDARD.
Sept. II: Corn is clear of frost, ana' is
big crop. :,s
Window Cottonwood county, Reporter:
Sept. II: The first frost occurred Mond,y
night, but corn and everything is beyocnd
its reach and vegetation is fully prepared
for it. :,
Sauk Rapids Denton county, Sentinel
Sept. 10: s. Flint, Of Langola township re-
ports that bat little threshing has been done
in his neighborhood, and the yield from
fifteen to eighteen bushels.
Litchfeld Independent. Sept. 10: Many
farmers expected a cool summer to follow
the mild winter and therefore planted but
little corn, but this has been about the best
corn season in the history of the State.
Monticello Wright county, Times, Sept.
12: The deliveries of wheat have largely
fallen off, owing to the decline in the price.
Those who threshed first and marketed their
grain ut once seem to have hit the nail on
the head.
Cnaska Carver county Herald, Sept. 12:
The corn crop of Carver county is the largest
and best of the kind harvested in this county
for years. 1t is about all cut and in shocks
it will make up for the shortage in the
wheat crop.
Benson, (swift County, Adcocate, Sept
IL: H. c. West, of Lac qui Parle, was in
town Tuesday, and he brought in load of
No. wheat. Says he has 800 bushels more
OF the same kind at home. It averaged 16
bushels to the acre.
Faribault Republican, Sept. II: The cane
mills in Morrlstown, Rice county, are COM
mencing operations, and as there is large
amount of cane planted there will probably
be an unusual quantity of moasses and
sugar made this fall. Flowing has COM
menced.
New Ulm Herald, Sept. 13: Corn in
this State this year is simply immense.
Four stocks to the hill-ten to fourteen feet
hlgh-two ears to the staik-big ones--to
say nothing of the nubbins. Corn dodger
will be all the rage the coming winter-and
such dodgers.
Melrose (Stearns county, Record, Sept. 13:
The wheat market is steadily declining, be-
ing now only 72c, &c, sec and 32c for the
four grades. Some wheat is brought in that
looks very fine, but is not heavy enough to
grade No. l. Oats are quoted at 25c, but 90
slow at 2Oc. Potatoes are good this season,
and are selling for 20c.
Albert Lea Enterprise, Sept. 12: Several
farmers in the town of Pickerel Lake have
been threshing some of their wheat which
was put into the stack loosly, and the yield
is very satisfactory. It has been averaging
about twenty bushels to the acre. We have
heard of no results from that which was put
into the stack bound yet. This will prob
ably yield much better.
Little Falls (Morfison county, Banner,
Sept. ~: Charley Salisbury, of this town.
ship. raised forty acres of wheat. He thresh-
ed ,O70 bushels of No. l wheat, besides
some so to 100 bushels of lower grade.
This is little over 81 bushels to the acre,
and will be about the average of the wheat
crop through the county. And it Is good
one.
Cannon Falls Beacon, Sept. 13: It has
been proven that the wheat grown this sea-
son, though poor, will make good -four. It
takes moro wheat of rejected grade to make
barrel of flour, but the quality of the flour
is not lessened. The dry weather which fol-
lowed harvest was certainly of great benefit
to wheat. quite perceptibly improving the
grade, especially when stacked and sweated.
Pennington Press Dakota county, Sept.
II: considerable quantity of wheat has
come to Iakeville all in damp, soft, un-
salable condition, weighing about fifty y-one
pounds to the measured bushel, and sold ut
the elevator for so cents for sixty pounds:
Surely this is hard season for the wheat
grower; the average yield per acre IN Lake
vile will not probably exceed ten bushels,
with very little grading above No. 3.
Fergus Falls (Otter Tail county, Aduocate,
Sept. L.: Charley and Ferdinand Peters
have thirty bushels Of wheat to the acre, and
a little over stventy bushels of oats. Mat
thew Wright's wheat turned ont twenty-one
bushels to tie acre, and his sons County
Attorney WrighD yielded seventeen bushels.
MIR. Swift threshed for Mr.. Fabian, of West
ern, one acre measured choice land, which
yielded the extraordinary amount of forty
six bushels per acre.
Granite Falls, yellow Medicine county,
Journal, Sept. -: Now this is the way it
stands; we don't know anything about lost
nation wheat, in an ordinary year. But this
year We are satisfied that it is the best yield
we have and is the best quality. Mr.. Pow
ers has just threshed GO acres of this va
riety of wheat that went nineteen bushels
to the acre of part No. l and part No. 2.
Farmers generally are reporting good yields
where this seed has been sown.
Lac qui Parlo County Press, Sept. 6: Re-
ports from some dozen townships indicate
that the general average in this county CT
wheat per acre will not fall below fifteen
bushels. This, with an excellent crop of
oats, fair potato yield, and decidedly
good promise of a big corn crop, places Lac
qui Parle county in an enviable position and
demonstrates beyond possibility of cavil
that it is as safe place for settlers to set
their stakes as any portion of the great
Northwest.
Cambridge City Qsanti County, Press,
Sept. -: ''We were shown sample of
syrup last Tuesday, made by A. s. Boone, OF
Bradford, from Amber Sugar Cane, and al
thoug h it was not as clear as that sold il the
stores it was much better in favor, besides
one has the pleasure of knowing it to be
pure. He only planted half an acre last
spring but estimates the yield to be not less
than forty gallons, which will certainly be
worth seventy to eighty cents gallon. By
careful cultivation on good land, and using
a good mill to press out the juice, there is
no trouble in getting $50 to 160 gallons an
acre.
Alexandria douglas county, Neaos, Sept.
II: H. H. Wilson's field of wheat, just
south of town, yielded twenty-four bushels
to the acre, machine measure. The wheat
crop of Mr.. Richards, of Ida, produced over
twenty-five bushels pc, acre. From eight
acres Mr.. Foster, of Miltona, threshed 22O
bushels of wheat-27H bushels per acre.
Mr.. J. F. Dicken, of LeGrand, threshed last
week, and from seven acres of mammoth
red wheat he received twenty-five and one
half bushels per acre, No. l. From the bal