Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-12
NUMBER 2lO.
CROPS IN MINNESOTA.

OhOID lin M1NNESOlA.
Blue Earth City Post, Aug. TO- All farm
ers who come to this Office report their crops
badly damaged, and hardly worth cutting
The yield will not exceed ten bushels per
acre.
Swift County Adeocate, Aug. 8: Tho wheat
crop in this county will fall short of the e.
innate made three weeks ago, at least 50
per cent. Yet the farmers feel pretty well,
for they think the price will be good.
Glenwood Eagle, Aug. 9: The harvest is
progressing favorably, although wheat has
been considerably damaged with smut, rust
and blight. The yield, if the crop is proper
ly secured, will be above the average. Har-
vest hands are scarce.
Freeborn County Standard, Aug. s: 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 ak, of poor wheat, very little Of
which will grade as high as No. 2.
| LIE Roy Independent, Aug. 10: W.eat 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. 8: 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
cinity.
Anoka Union, Aug. 10: James Mccain
brought the first new wheat to the Touring
mill last week Friday, the amount being GOO
bushels, all No. l. for which he received 80
cents a bushel. One Of the fields averaged
twenty bushels to the acre and the other
eighteen.
Dundas Rice Coz Nees, 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 flour.
This s bad state of things, but We must
make the best of it.
Granite Falls Journal, Aug. 8: The wheat
here is better than is generally reported, al
though grain that was not cut before the last
heavy rain is shrunken and discoored. Our
farmers need not feel too much the loss of
third Of their grain, as with their losses
the price of wheat will correspondingly in
crease.
Albert Lea Enterprise, Aug. s: Tho
reports from all parts of the county are not
very fattering for half 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
discouragng, but the truth will soon be
, known when the threshing machines start
up.
Morris Stevens county, Tribune, Aug. s.:
: New wheat is coming in. What we have
seen is very light, and only tests fifty five
and half pounds per bushel. The first
q wheat threshed and marketed in this county
. :. this season was from the farm of Hon. j. @.
! Mccarthy. One hundred and twenty-one
bushels were measui ed at the machine, the
g result of one hours work.
If Wilmar Repubtican-G Gazette, Aug. s: Har-
u vesting in the county is probably little
more than half done. 1t is impossible at this
% time to give anything like a correct estimate
! of the Weld, but it will not be likely to run
q much above an average of fifteen bushels to
- the acre for the whole county, and much OF
:. - this will grade No. and No. 3. The best
:. wheat is in the northeastern towns, and the
7 next best in tho northwestern towns, ane
. the poorest in the southwestern towns.
IN Sank Centre Herald, Aug. 8: We notice.
~ several good citizens vending their way t.
a. the harvest field last Sunday morning. Nc
cessity knows no law. A large amount o
grain will be lost in this section in conse
auence of the scarcity of harvest hands ant
b the LODGED condition. of the grain. Antol
Schaffcr is one of the unlucky farmers thl
40 year. He has a seventy-hye acre field Q
ke Lost Nation wheat which is so tangled, rust
II. ed and smutted that he concluded 1t woul
III not pay TO cut It,
: Goodhue County Republican, Aug. 8:
nd hard days drive through six townships g
te this county gave us an opportunity to exam
all inc the wheat crop quite particularly. w
ill shall not exceed one third of an averag
n crop. and that of an inferior quality, No.
it and rejected. This, when our prospect
zee were SO bright, wi prove great disappon
m. ment not only to the farmers, but to all OF
ais people. But as no human power caused {
rs, could avoid the calamity, we must accept II
OF situation with as good grace as possible.
IN Rochester Record and Un!on, Aug.
Mt. The opinion is expressed that wheat w
of not be over half crop, and portion
ad, that unstable. There is apprehension tn
ou- much of the wheat will not be tit for eth
the -four or feed. Mr.. Bamber relates his e
ia perience with winter wheat in ONO, whel
per one wet season, several years since, Il
per grain was blighted and turned red at o.
per end, making what was known as Isl
ter wheat.'' He says his hogs refused to tou
1gh the bran second time, and the Hour
it 4 worthless. There is probably very lit
has wheat in Southern Minnesota that was I
he more or less injured by the scalding b
sno weather.
Sherburne County Star, Ang. g.: Frt
presen indications there are very few,
ON any. counties in the State that will have
ar better crop of wheat this year than old sh
burne county. And still there are lots
ner people who think the soil in Sherbui
county is too light and sandy to raise al
,ow thing on. The largest corn field IN the 81
Of Minnesota is in Sherburn county and G
attic tains 600 acres. It is close by Becker stati
and in plain sight OF passengers on the
rom Panl & Pacific railroad, and is the prope
, ar Of Major A. NJ. Fridley and n. q. Frid
his son. Eastern people, make note
i p.r this. and that this county is about The
urg corn lahu " liiS - 49,
GEMS Wortbineton Adcdnce, Aug. g: Mes
James Gown, L. NJ. Porter and George
Carr, of Adrian, were in town on Tuesday
looked in upon the Adcance. They rel
than all crops good in the western part of
the county except wheat, winch froln Oh gn.'
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