Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-26
Minnesota News items.

Il Minnesota News Items.
Rushford Fillmore county Star, Sept. 10:
Wheat is ranging from so cents to 81 per
bushel III our market.
Window Reporter, Sept. 10: Farmers are
hauling their sorghum to the factory in VIM
dom, and the quality is excellent.
Crookston Polk county Journal, Sept.
20: Mr.. x. LaMay raised twenty-six bush
els of wheat and forty of oats per acre. The
! oats were raised on land broken last spring.
jackson County Republican, Sept. FL:
Many farmers are busy haying, and those
| not haying are blowing and threshing. and
days.
Crookston Polk county, Journal: Mr..
B. Sampson finished threshing on Thursday.
Twenty eight acres of wheat yielded 100
bushels, an average of % At bushels per
acre. Oats yielded 60 bushels per acre.
New Ulm Reusew, Sept. 10: Our wheat
buyers say that the wheat now brought in is
of very poor quality, nearly all grading No.
4. The price paid ranges from 80 to Is
cents for new and 80 cents for old wheat.
Hastings Gazette, Sept. 81: Notwithstand
ing the weather has been quite dry, the
farmers have made good progress in blowing.
They are turning over q heavy growth of
vegetation, and it is full of juices, being as
yet untouched by frost.
Todd County argus: The crop on the
| old Redfield farm north of town was threshed
| last week and turned out 687 bushels of
wheat from 33 acres, or nearly 81 bushels
per acre. The yield of rye from 80 acres
was $50 bushels, or 1879 tushels per acre.
Taylors Falls Journal, Sept. 20: A large
proportion of the wheat grown north and
| east of here is No. /. The cranberry harvest
is about completed. Nearly 5000 barrels
were gathered in Burnett county and vicin-
ity. They are selling hire at from $3.50 to
| $2 per bushel.
Fairmont (Martin county, Sentinel, Sept.
20: Mr.. j. A. Houghtaling brought US in
speciman of sod corn reise,' upon his Frazer
farm. The ears are ten inches long, veil
filled and plump, and would make an
| Illinois corn-grower acknowledge the corn
IN favor of Martin county.
Alexandria douglas county, Post, Sept.
20: Chas. Jenkins, of Lake, Mary, has the
finest crop of cane We ever saw. It is prob
ably the best in the county, and very likely
the best In the State. Except little at one
corner of the field it is untouched by frost
and is growing we'll, and will soon be fully
ripe and good for 400 gallons of extra
syrup.
Rochester (Olmsted county, Record and
Union, Sept. 20: Wheat is yielding rather
better than was expected. Mr.. Smithenbereer
threshed portion of his crop which yields
nineteen bushels per acre. L. 81. Golding
threshed the sixteen acres which was not
burned, and it yielded about twenty-one
bushels per acre.
st. Peter Tribune, Sept. 49, We are in
debted to Rev. G. n. Savage, of Cleveland
township, for sample of syrup made by
him from the amber sugar cane. The syrup
is OF superior quality, and the celebrity of
the amber cane is fully merited. Judging
from the fields of sorghum and amber cane
growing in this vicinity, it is evident that
our farmers will not be without supply of
'sweetening'' this year.
Little Falls (Morrison county, TRANSCRIPT.
Sept. 10: The amount of wild rice gathered
town, is estimated at 100 bushels. The en-
tire yield is probably about 1000 bushels,
but as it has to be gathered by hand in q
slow and tedious manner, the most of it goes
| to waste. Some inventor should invent q
machine for gathering it.
Cambridge City Qsanti county, Press,
Sept. 10: couple of farmers living in the
northern part of the county, and who have
been put West all summer breaking, passed
through town on Saturday last on their way
hone They we're we'll pleased with Lac qui
Parle county and will return again in the
spring and put in wheat on the l25 acres
they have broken this season.
Chatfeld Gilmore county, Democrat
Sept. FL: Mr.. Mccoy, of West Chattield,
has made over thirteen hundred gallons of
| sorghum this season aid the evaporator is
still running night and day: The finest
article of syrup made by Mr.. Mccoy, was
from the White Amber Cane raised by Mr..
| ALT. Lombard, on his farm near this place.
| 1t is heavy, rich and sweet.
Elk River, (Sherburne county, Star, Sept.
! 20: Mills & Houlton have received letter
! from a commission merchant in Philadel-
! rhla, who handles good deal Of their -four.
| in which he says that the last lot of -four re-
| celved from here is of far better quality
! than any that comes from Minnea polls, and
making particular mention of i,s being bet
| ter than Pillsbury's, which has the reputa-
| ton of being the best -four manufactured.
| Henderson (Sibley County, Independent,
| Sept. 20: The following persons have re-
ported the number of bushels of wheat
threshed: Martin Graham, of Faxon, As
acres, 991 bushels, or twenty-five bushels
per acre; E. J. Aver, of Hen
derson, 6 IL acres, $50 bushels, or
over twenty-three bushels per acre. The
owner of the threshing machine who thresh-
ed for Mr. Aver insists that there was twenty
eight bushels per acre. John Dacy. of Green
Isle, from twenty-six acres, threshed 772
bushels, or nearly thirty bus els per acre..
Faribault Democrat, Sept. 20: 20. F.
Burgess, proprietor of the Wells market gar
den, has been delivering about the city green
peas, the second crop of the year
in regular succession. That is. this
crop was grown upon the same ground
of his former crop, and from the
seed ripened in midsummer. Tie ,eas are
OF the kind known as the variety Alpha and
Blue Peter-no early peas. They ve,e
fresh and nice. We consider this very
ere ditable performance for the State that
extends the farthest North of any State in
the Union.
st. Charles (Winona county, Union, Sept.
IL: New potatoes as they are exhumed from
the ground are found to be very much dam
aged BY dry rot. They will not be as plenti-
full this year as formerly. We were shown q
stalk of EARLY Amber cane yesterday, raised
by Mr.. 0. Burgess on the Brewer place near
this city, which measured about nine feet in
height. This seed is fully matured. Mr..
Burgess has an acre and quarter of this
cane which he will work into syrup soon.
There are others who have raised cane''
this year in this vicinity which they intend
to manufacture into sugar.
Plainyiew (Wabashaw county, Neus,
Sept ls: But little threshing has as yet
been done in this yicininty, which accounts
for the small amount of wheat now coming
INTO the market, and the inactivity of the
trade. With but very few exceptions farm
ers stacked their wheat in very good season,
ana In undergoing the sweating process it
has materially improved in quality. Wheat
a AAoSN 49, L.