Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-17
CROPS IN MINNESOTA.

completed their harvesting-the average
yield about fifteen bushels to the acre.
Long Prairie Todd Co.. Argus, Aug. IA:
so far this has been good year for saving
grain as regards wet weather, and during the
present week a large amount of wheat will
be put in stack
Winnebago City Faribault Coz Press,
Aug. ID: We are sorry to hear reports from
various quarters to the effect that the po-
tatoes are rotting. Wherever they are ripe
they should be dug now.
st. Cloud Times, Aug. IA: This has been
good season for farms on light sandy land.
The grain did not grow SO heavy, and hence
there was no 'lodging.'' This accounts for
sherburne county claiming to be the banner
county.
Austin Monroe county Transcript, Aug.
10: The man who works w. L. Wilkins
Spring Valley farm, gave the wheat up and
was going to lose it all, when Mr.. Wilkins,
with his usual energy, put men and teams
at 1t and was we'll repaid.
Delano Wright co., Eagle Aug. Is: Har-
yestlng is nearly done in this vicinity with
few exceptions, but all seem to agree that
wheat is only half crop and of inferior
grade. Corn is looking splendid. Pota-
toes are also doing well.
Granite Falls Journal, Aug. Is: We
think it safe to say that the wheat crop of
this immediate vicinity is damaged one half
by the rust and blight, and that twelve bush
els may be set down as the average per acre.
oats turn out well and will average fifty
bushels per acre.
Harrington Dakota county, Press, Aug. IA:
The first load of new wheat that went into the
elevator at Pennington, few days since
was raised on the Lam farm, averaged seven
teen bushels to the acre. was graded as .sre-
jected'' and sold for fifty cents per bashel
That kind of wheat will be worth more, by
and by.
st. Charles (Winona county, Times, Aug.
IA: Ed Cutter decided to leave fifty-seven
acres of his wheat uncut, considering it too
poor to pay expenses. But on commencing
to thresh he found the wheat already cut
yielded fifteen bushels per acre, SO he is now
cutting the piece he at first intended to
abandon.
Meonticello Wright county, Times, Aug
Is: Mr.. Lyon, who opened farm OH the
east bank of the river a few miles above
town year OF two ago, thinks he will have
eighteen bushels of wheat to the acre ard
he has a field of more than hundred acres.
Wheat i'll this neighborhood will average
about twenty bushels per acre.
Red Wing Republican, Aug. 49, Most of
the wheat is shocked, and so are the farmers.
The Red Wing wheat buyers last Monday
established a schedule of prizes for wheat of
all weights. Wheat weighing fifty eight
pounds per bushel is now worth 50 cents.
The prices descend to 4215 cents for wheat
of forty five pounds weight
Wabashaw Herald, Aug. IA: Mr. Seymour
Jones has fifteen acres of wheat that he
will not cut, and Mr.. Miller some thirty
These are the only instances of the kind off
the prairie as far as we have heard. Harvest
ing and stacking of wheat is over and thresh-
ing has commenced. Wheat new and old,
ranges in price from 40 to 80 cents.
Glencoe (McLeod Coz Enterprise, Aug
IA: The other day we had ride through 8
portion of this county, and in almost eyerv
instance the farmers had their grain all cut,
but very few had it in stack. In great
many fields there could be seen wheat that
had been lodged so badly as to render it i'm
possible to bind it, and which lay in loose
shocks.
Lac qui Parle County Press, Aug 8: The
crop outlook in this county is not so bad as
was at first supposed. Harvesting is not vet
finished, owing to the delay caused by the
lodged condition of the grain. Within a
day or two, moving machines have been
used on some fields, and the grain has been
raked up like hay. 1t has been an unusually
long and tedious harvest.
Detroit Decker Coz Record, Aug. 10: All
accounts agree in representing that the
wheat crop of the Red River valley along the
Northern Pacific line has entirely escaped
the damage which has been caused by I'M
favorable weather in the southern part OF
the State. Mr.. 0. Dalrymple says the cror
there was never better. The heads have
filled out splendidly, clear to the top,and the
, grain is perfect. It is only pity there is
, not more of it.
Mower and Fillmore County Republican
Aug. Is: We have been shown sample OF
this years wheat, raised in the neighborhoo6
: of Austin. The berry is not so large as
, usual, but small as it is, it appears to be well
rounded out and looks as though it would
make good bread. If the farmers can only
> have enough of even this sort, to supply
them with bread and seed till next harvest
they may consider themselves lucky, after
having such blight.
Preston Fillmore county, Republican
Aug. Is: Mike Ropp has finished harvest
ing very light crop of wheat on the fail
grounds. He had to use reaper instead O
harvester, on account of it's being lodged
and tangled The hum of the threshing ma
chimes is again heard in the land. One O
them was heard on the Tibbetts farm, adj
joining town, Tuesday, and the yield o
wheat was thirteen bushels to the acre. Bet
ter than was expected.
Glencoe (McLeod Coz Register, Aug Is
Our Norwood correspondent reports tn
threshing of one field of wheat which averag
ed 2411a bushels per acre. Unfavorabl
weather for harvest still continues tri,
into the country last Monday discovered
many fields of grain still standing. SOM
will never be cut, while in others farmers ar
busy at work with headers and self-rak
reapers getting what they can of the pros
trate OF badly crinkled grain.
Fairbault Republican, Aug. Ia :: Mr., II
Fl. Blinn, of Kenyon, who has traversed th
western part of Goodhue and the easter
towns of Rice very extensively in the sale o
machinery, thinks the wheat crop in tina
section will not average over six bushels t
the acre. In Kenyon, about one-fourth O
the wheat will not be cut, and about one
third of the remainder will be stacked with
out binding. In Wheeling and Richland th
situation is about the same
Plainyiew (Wabashaw county, Ne,os, Aug