Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-07-04
THE CROPS.

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i Tho Splendid Outlook Il, Aftnnesota.
+ Albert Lea Enterpris4; Wheat and oats
~ hesata thi6qgh The county. ! ! !, !,
sibley County Independent: Grain is 80
heavy in this county that much of it has
been badly lodged by the late rains.
st. Cloud Journal Press: How different
everything looks in the sg4ss1 1qppdr diee-
tricts'' this year from whatait Ndid iasf ye1r
and the year before.
Madelia Times: Wheat is heading out fast
now. Some has been ontsome days, and we
hear farmers say they expect theirs will be
|; # TO gut in three weeks.
hotf SUI hnf Bepudltcon! Farmers
aay thatthsy heSeJsaw such growth Of
wheat as there is this year. It stands four
feet high and not headed yet. :,
Le suenur Seintin1ez: Tie weather hasb been
very hot the past week, and corn has had q
thrifty growe On Monday thermoys
indif asb?st 10 il the shhgle,s syA' !
| sWaaisssl slsalixnF nFarmers Are .isjqispg
over the present propitious eorhsxeather and
arc general in their remarks that other grain
crops never looked more promising.
Hokoh Blade: The wheat crop all over
the country never looked so we'll as it does
this summer, and unless something happens
the average will be twenty-five bushels to
the acre.
\ Fergus Falls Adpocate:: The crops in this
town are looking almost "too good,' and are
beginning to lodge considerably, but warm
dry spell of weather will bring them out all
right for the harvest.
E Pope County Press: In Douglas county,
according to the. Post, tbei 90 up in aballoo1
to measure the length of their rye; in this
county they climb a tree to measure the
length of their wheat.
/ Lake City Leader: "The warm-the hot
-weatner-o OF tha psat-wsek, naa made the
corn fairly yell out with growing pains. It
is now stretching up at the rate of little
less than foot per day.
/ Ren1ilb EEnes: Fine growing .wiather.
Small grains are making an astonishing
growth: From present appearances, it ts
safe to say that harvesting In Minnesota swfn
Oe&Au ~ q "uC0 ea1AIoI udIo taau III 1Orher
years. ~ ~ 40
Benson Times: Another heavy rain Mon
day night, June oath, and Tuesday morn
ing. We fear that the frequent rains will
make many fields OF wheat have too rank q
growth and cause it to 'straw-fall'' before
tnetmtt { * = ! ( !
St: James Journal: Rust is reported in
some fields Of wheat in thls vicinity, but no
damages ,his sbsen dpne ;ds c9s b tscer.
tanned. Wheat IS very heavy ana there
is some danger of its being beaten down by
the winds and sISsfAss - siaa's - a
sshakopes k AFg5a:: 81 rhis: yeaf, + bIt by tie i8th
of July, the farmers villbe busily engaged
in h harvesting t5si! grsAiH: Wheat snd eats
have begun to head, consequently nothing
now remains but ripening. Warm, dry
weather is necessary.
The editor Of the. st: Cloud Jonrnal men
tions having seen stalksof rye seven feet three
inches high, grown on the farm of VIM.
Hulst, of Fair Haven. He says there is an
unusually large quantity of rye being raised
in that vicinity, ''to be manufactured into
bread, of course.'
The Anoka Union: One of our subscrib-
ers from the country dropped into onr office
this week and made the remark, that never
in the history of our existence did crops of
all kinds hop, skip, jump and grow as at
present, but thought there was danger that
wheat might rust this hot wet weather.
Sauk Center Herald: It is refreshing: to
take ride into the country these days and
see the solid fields of dark green wheat and
helds of tall waving rye. Oor farmers have
not had so good a prospect for large crop
for many ayeer::s ti,here will 'be's busy times
among the fa<mAu sRheb tka harvest COM
mences.
r 6t. Peter Iynes: Wheat mover {toT 80
heavy on tie ground as this Seaar, ! and in,
many instances it is lodged or down flat.
Yet much of that down is rising. If farmers
are favored by still weather without rains, no
such crop will ever, haye been harvested.
Barley i DOWN and top this bc54unt may
prove poor CROP. \
Alexandria Post AS soon as it will bear
cutting, get the grain into shock, stack and
barn as fast as possible; for not till we'll
Stdcked pr im tie 6THxrH it 'IsfST Hon hail
stdrins and Vet weather.: Thef keaVy heads
and long, rank straw of this year render the
crop unusually liable to lodge and tangle.
Be ready, farmers, qnd lose no g time. j tY
Wilkin County Gazette: The farmers in
hlfPmkh the douptr .ebett the iasH KS
netef hashg promised betteff than they DO
at the present time. bountiful harvest is
looked for, which we hops may be- reafzgd,
and thus prove to the prejudioed that he
Breckenridge fats can, and will produce
something besides wild oats, frogs and mos
3 qFIlto;'. q 4 {. d.M(l-l uTA nIAHD
Melrose Record:: e. G. Bloomfield, who
has just returned fpo4la visit to his friends
at willmar, reports the crops id S a splendid
coefH NY r ,E1ar:esity, Ii!t! tsl,, he he