Daily globe., 1878-08-19
CROPS IN MINNESOTA.

grain LOO QUICK we nope to nave enough
for bread.
Benson Swift county, Adrocute, Aug. 16:
The roar of the threshing machine is heard
III. P. Allen is the first man to thresh his
wheat that we have heard of, and it turned
out fourteen bushels to the acre. Wheat
will be mostly No. ,, owing to it being badly
shrunken.
Princeton Mile Laos county, Union,
Aug. Ia. The Star claims for Sherburne
county the largest average yield of wheat to
the acre of any county in the State. Mile
Lacs county will average three bushels
more to the acre than Sherburn, and don't
you forget it.
Elk River (Sherburne county, star, Aug.
l6: A. j. Craig, of Livonia. says that the
farmers of that enterprising burg are agree
ably disappointed regarding the wheat crop.
1t VIII turn out a great deal better than they
expected. Those who have threshed are
realizing all the way from eighteen to thirty
bushels to the acre, and good, fair wheat at
that.
Faribault Democrat, Aug. 16: Some of the
new wheat from the farm of w. Il. Bald
win was made into flour at Hillyer Il Bine
hams mill last week, and it proved to be of
excellent quality. The wheat was light.
weighing but ffty-three pounds to the
bushel, and requiring six and half bushels
to make barrel of flour. Mr.. Balwin's
wheat IS far better than the average in this
section, probably owing to the fact that his
seed was pure fife, procured direct from
Canada for that purpose.
Shakopee Scott county,) drgus, Aug 15
Stacking misunderstanding in full blast.
| The following statistics do not look as if the
crops IN Scott county are failure: Frank
Clifford, of Louisville, threshed GAO bushels
OF wheat from twenty-six acres, an average
of nearly twenty-five bushels per acre. 1t
weighed fifty-eight pounds per bushel.
Grade No. ,. One of Sheriff Flaherty's
yielded twenty-five bushels per acre. The
average of his whole farm was fifteen bush
els. Better by five bushels than he ex-
pected.
Dodge Center dodge county, Press, Aug
15 look at the crops III Olmstead and
Winona counties develops the fact that the
grain was better secured east of Rochester
than III this or the western part of Omstead
Y county. About one-half of the grain is in
4 the stack or threshed. Between Rochester
and st. Charles we saw two horsepower ma
chimes in operation. while beyond st. Charles
more machines were running, and all by
steam. On our return Tuesday we noticed
four steam threshers between st. Charles and
Lewiston.
! Cambridge City Gsanti county, Press,
It Aug. 10; Corn will be an unusually good
crop in this county this year and will GER
Ii tainly ripen bef,re cold weather comes.
+ Early kinds are already nearly out of the
o way of the frost. The Wentworth Bros.
have threshed two lots of wheat this season
al III IlyOnil that have cone over thirty hush
II els to the acre, and Mr.. Burnell had oats
g. which yielded sixty bushels per acre. While
l. a few fields will yield very good crop of
"a wheat, we fear from all accounts we receive
h that there will not be much more than half Il
II crop for the whole county. The hot sun
r rpened the grain before the berry got well
!, filled.
Rochester (Olmsted county, Post, Aug.
le 1G: With wheat not more than a third or
ID half a crop and oats somewhat damaged by
>. the rains. ii is gratifying to know that the
corn crop is excellent, and good crop of
IL corn Is something not to be despised on
S. counted as of but little worth. 1t is claimed
in by good judges that it is more profitable to
n raise corn to fatten pork at So per hundred
fe than to raise wheat at so cents per bushel.
n This theory may or may not be strictly cor
1t rect, but there can be doubt that it would
sure crop, and does not exhaust the land;
le besides it leaves the ground III good shape
le for small grain. And then, the crop is
o easily raised. without great expense, and is
10 an excellent feed for most animals on the
ne farm.
$. Lake City Leader, Aug. L Fred. w. Win
- ters, of Mt. Pleasant, skipped ninety acres
on his farm this harvest, which he will not
cut on account of blight. Wheat on James
n' Crumps farm, Clifford, averaging from
three to four and half bushels per
~ ~ load-threshing out of the shock.
~ One hundred and ninety bushels the
- result of one days diligent work.
s s JOS. Scott, of Central Point, threshed his
: - wheat on Thursday, and he was, hims elf,
y surprised at the yield. He threshed twenty
Z" acres, and got $50 bushels of No. l wheat
;, 63 pounds to the bushel, machine measure.
IL This is twenty eight bushels to the acre, and
ss is the very best crop we have heard of this
IN year-quality and quantity considered. 1t
MS was of the Lost Nation variety.
I'D Litchteld (Meeker county, Independent
,st Aug IL: Sorghum cane is growing fast this
ID favorable weather. If no bad luck overtakes
ed the crop, this section will be able to supply
~. the State with syrup. The oat crop in this
county is simply immense. Some expect
Ter over 100 bushels to the acre. w. H. Dar
,as threshed some the other day yielding sever
he ty-tive bushels per acre. The first new wheat
in brought into ST.. Cloud was from piece
II. which yielded twenty-three bushels per acre
ian and weighed tifty-eight pounds to th,
ap- bushels. 1t graded No. 2. Dart ant
m Angler have about finished threshing on tn,
led Roberts fran near town. They had III
she acres, of which thirty-one acres yieldet
viii nineteen bushels per acre, and the remainde
fifteen bushels. 1t graded No. 2. This is
GO very good showing, when we consider tn
i'm low estimates of a week Or two ago.
II LIE Sueur Sentinel, Aug Is: The whea
ast: crop, as far as threshers' reports have beel
s seu received in this vicinity, is turning ou
~, better than we had reason to antic
e loti ipate. The fact should be borne in mind, a
,,ea o a farmer remarked a few days ago, that dur
"a 10 ing the twentyodd years that wheat ha
ss ea' been grown to any extent in Minnesota thi
le is the first year that there has not beena goo
1io average crop grown on the timber lands c
the State, and the first year that there ha
lar- been anything like failure of the whea
on crop on the prairies. A failure OF the whea
)ne crop once III twenty years, SO far as bein
the detrimental to the State, only proves tt
the wonderful wheat producing properties of OF
troll soil, and may serve as a useful remainder
ard farmers that successful farming through
ent. series of years depends upon diversity
hey crops. 1t rarely pays for any man to stah
ape all he has upon single chance.
! Il % . Alexandria douglas county, Post, Au,
be 16: Last Friday Frank Reynolds put IL