Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-12
MINNESOTA CROPS.

Hastings Union, July 10: Exceedingly
bad weather for rusting grain.
New Ulm Rooieeo, July 10: Before another
issue of the Reoieco the rye and barley har-
vest will have fairly commenced.
Lake City tsentiuol, July TO- Wheat is
ripening. The wind and rain Sunday lodged
considerable grain in this locality.
-Litchfeld Iadependent, July 8: The
weather now is very favorable to the heavy
wheat crops. We hear little complaint of
lodging and none of rust in this county.
Haying will begin this week in some places.
though as a rule the grass crop is put back
by the wet, cold spring.
Wabashaw Herald, July 10: 1t is reported
from Glasgow that the barley harvest has
commenced, and if the dry hot weather CON
tinues, wheat in the valley will soon follow.
Chnch bugs are threatening some damage.
but good shower and cooler weather would
prevent their committing any serious depre-
dations
Sank Rapids .sentinel, July 8: The rye
harvest has been commenced in this county.
Farmers in this county have commenced
making hay. rain shower on Sunday
temporarily cooled the atmosphere, and
proved beneficial to the crops. Accounts of
big crops in Benton county keep coming in
Mi. }. Il. Stewart reports barley growing on
the farm of MIR. y. Walker, in Gilmanton,
four feet high: oats, five feet nine inches
high, and timothy heads, nine inches long.
st. Peter Tribune, July 10th: TIE crop
reports which come from every direction are
very discouraging just now. The recent
storms have blown down much of the grain,
and the rains, heavy dews and hot suns have
caused rust to appear. In the vicinity of
Cleveland the grain appears to have been
lodged worst, and we are informed that
some of it can only be cut with sickle
Altogether the crop of small grain is consid-
erably injured, and unless the weather takes
a favorable turn at once the damage will be
ers who have not harvested full crop in
five years have reason to feel a little discour-
aged at the present outlook. At the best
the grain is SO badly damaged that an i'm
mense amount of labor will be required to
save it at all.
Glencoe Enterprise, July 81: A report
from Hutchinson, Mcleod county SAYS
The weather for the past week has been IA
vorable for the growing crops. Corn has
made wonderful growth in the last ten days;
Thursday, Friday and Saturday were hot,
hotter, hottest in their order, the thermom-
eter on Saturday rising to 38o. Some farm
ers claim that grain is rusted little. but not
enough to do any injury to it at present.
Those farmers who were feeling blue last
week because considerable of their grain
was laid down by the previous rains, have
recovered their spirits again the greater
part OF the down grain has raised up again
and they find that not only is the standing
grain filling well, but that which is down
also. We had very fine rain yesterday,
but the weather being cool we do not look
Tor 1t to cause the grain to rust, and 1t was
not heavy enough to injure the grain crops.
| Delano Wright county, Eagle, July 10th
Farmers are cutting hay. Harvest will soon
commence. Farmers complain of too fire.
quent rains for the good of wheat fields. In
Buffalo is the county the farmers are clamor-
ing for harvest help, for the heavy growth
of straw and the fact that part of the grain
is already lodged, with more to follow before
it ripens, will necessitate additional labor in
the harvest fields, and yet many of our young
men talk of going to the big prairie to work
during harvest. From Howard Lake the re-
port is that grain is looking well through the
county. The storm Of Sunday prostrated
some few pieces in this vicinity, but the
damage is not great. We noticed two pieces
east of town that We're badly rusted. Barley