Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-22
Crop Reports.

! Rush City Post, Aug. 16: P. 81. Flynn
has been threshing this week f.r himself
and his wheat turned out better than was
expected. about fifteen bushels to the acre;
grades No. I.
Blue Earth City Po*t, Aug. l.: The
crop of wheat in this county is being secured
in better condition than was expected. Il
has been harvested and stacked unbound,
| loose, as the farmers express il. and II 10
heavy rains come it will yield an average
| crop of No. wheat.
! Glenwood. Pope county Press, Aug. l.:
AS near as We learn. the yield of wheat
| in this section seems to be as great. if not
greater on an average than in any other por-
| ton of the State. Good judges estimate the
average yield in this county at not less than
fifteen, and probably eighteen. bushels Per
! acre.
| Dundas Rice county, Ne7rs, Aug. Il:
Fire works nearly every night-burning
straw stacks. Wheat may turn out better
| after "sweating'' in the stack. Like those
! in days of old. We can live GA good. hard
corn Two or three hundred acres OF
wheat have been burned over out on East
Prairie.
Mantorvile Dodge county Express, Aug.
16: John Edmond. OF Claremont, is row
threshing from field OF wheat that appeared
to look as we'll as any field in the west slice.
and the grain weighed tifty-two pounds to
the bushel: all of which indicates that the
bulk of the wheat in this section will 90 re-
jected.
Glenwood. Pope county, Eagle, Aug. 16:
The harvest in this county is now fully COM
pleted. and the farmers express themselves
generally as being satisfied as to the esti-
mated yield. Some few farmers have thresh-
ed their grain. wheat yielding as high as
twenty bushels per acre. and oats IN some
cases as high as eighty bushels per acre.
Luverne Brock county, Herald, Aug. IL:
Those who have commenced threshins re-
port the yield of wheat as being greater than
was anticipated. Fifteen to twenty bushels
per acre rs the reported yield. a gale ac-
compauying a shower Wednesday evening
blowed over several stacks of grain to the
west and southwest of town, and the subse-
quent rain washed the unprotected gram.
Crookston Polk county, Journal, Aug. Is:
The Red River valley takes the premium on
wheat this year. Inquiries at all points
along the St, Paul & Pacific ext nsion, from
reckinridge to Fishers Landing, develop a
general estimate of from twenty to twenty
i've bushels per acre, mostly No. wheat.
At Fishers Landing they claim larger
yield of better wheat than anywhere in the
State.
st. James (Watonwan county, Journal.
Aug. II: 4 steam thresher was put in mo-
ton on F. B: Bass farm yesterday, and it is
estimated that it will take about ten days to
finish the wheat to be threshed. Mr.. Bass
had 700 acres in wheat, about one-ffth of
which, when cut. was in such shape that it
coulu not be bound and stacked. The whole
will probably average nine bushels per
acre.
Redwood Falls Gazette, Aug. Is: Har-
vesting in this vicinity has been slow and
laborious. The majority of farmers are done
cutting, but many who have large crops are
not. Threshing is pretty generally under
way: and there will be more grain than farm
ers expected two weeks ago. The quality of
enormous: In fact. every kind Of crop is
good except wheat. Mr.. Thomas Mcmillan
has threshel his wheat crop and the result
exceeds his expectations On the Brum
farm it averaged twehty-one bushels TO the
acre. On the Dolvin farm about sixteen.
On the latterif farm he had about sixty acres
of wheat There is none of it will pass as
No. witho1t:a great deal of winnowing.
/ Albert Lea Standard: Chester 'Searle. a
farmer living. south'of this city, informs Us
that he has discovered that wheat straw is
covered withmyriads of snallblack bugs not
much larger than the point Of a needle.
He discovered them accidentally by putting
some wheat on white cloth. They are so
small that they are visible to the naked eye
only by taking straw and shaking it over
white paper or cloth, when they will collect
in such large quantities that they can be
SEEM Mr.: searle thinks they are what in
jured the wheat. instead Of The weather.
He has forwarded quantity of these in
scots to the commissioner of agriculture at
Washington, for the purpose of ascertaining
their species. =. :>-.-.t: