Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-30
MINNESOTA CROPS.

MlNNIOOlA CRUIS.
a sntes.dsd Prospect at the Present
Time.
Albert Lea (Freeborn county, Standard, June
&c.
Splendid crop reports are coming in from
oil directions, daily. There will be big
fGlencoe MCLEOD county, Enterprise, June
rs.
Farmers are busily engaged in cultivating,
better than at the present time.
Owatonna (steele county, Press, June 81.
D. G. Adams, Esq, of this city, visited
Freeborn and Faribault counties on business
last week and reports that tho crops look
well through that section.
Window Cottonwood Coz Reporter, June26
In Selma wheat and barley are heading
out. In Amo crops are looking finely. Some
wheat fields are troubled with rust, but not
enough to do much damage.
Morris (Stevens County, Tribune, June &C.. !
Grass is not so far forward as at this time
last year, but still stands we'll and fair
yield of hay will be secured. Farmers are
preparing to commence haying.
Zumbrota (Goodhue county, Independent,
June Is.
The wheat crop is looking as we'll as could
be asked for by the farmers, and if nothing
happens to the growing crops it is thought
that a largo yield will be realized the coming
season.
Morris (Stevens County, Tribune.
Grain is heading out nicely in various
vorto Of tho oOun&v on1 1ooEu Hno npo
short month tells the story, for by that time
harvest will be commenced and we will know
whether it is make or break.
[St. Cloud (stearns county, Journal Press,
June 26.
Crops of all kinds in this vicinity continue
abundant yields. The wheat in the timber
is said to be nearly two feet high, and in a
number of fields is beginning to head out.
LIE Sueur Sentinel, June 26.l
Corn in the timber is reported to be knee
high and looming up into the air with giant
strides. Wheat in this vicinity is nearly all
heading out finely, although there is some
smut and some evidence of rnst which,
however, is not alarming.
Fairbault Republican, June 25.1
Wheat is beginning to head out. We
have seen sample of stalks pulled from q
field in Goodhue county, in which the heads
were about five inches in length, and looked
very promising. The weather for the week
past has been very favorable for the crop.
Alexandria douglas county, Post, June 81.
The crops never looked better. The rye
is six feet high and in head. Barley is in
head. Wheat is thick on the ground an6
toll l.,
! and meadows are all luxuriant and promise
| an abundant yield. The forests are loaded
with tropical exuberance and density q
foliage.
Winnebago City (Fairbault county, Press
June 81.
Crops of all kinds are looking splendid a.
bright and promising. We trust that ou1
people may to permitted to drink their full
of the cup of prosperity this year, and MOI
just as they are puttingi it to their lips, as il
| was last year.
Melrose (Stearns county, Record, June 27.
The crops are looking splendid. Som,
low places on the clay lands seems to be too
wet and the grain has little sickly appear
ance, but on the light soil and upland there
has not been too much rain yet. Corn il
backward but there is time enough yet for i
to grow, as it grows rapidly after the no
weather sets in.
Sleepy Eye Wide-Awake, June "a.
From trip out into the country Drown
county, we notice that crops Of all kinds
look very we'll, Several pieces of barle,
will be sufficiently ripened to harvest in
couple of weeks. In some fields the whea
stands hardly thick enough, but with favor.
able weather there will be first rate cro]
and no doubts about it either.
Benson (Swift county, Times, June 27.l
Fears are entertained by many farmer
concerning the coming crop of wheat. Rus
is said to be injuring it to considerable ex
tent, while the leaves near the ground ar
turning white. = i * Owing to the dr.
spring, grass in this section is very poor an
thin. 10 every bunch of grass, foot 0
! more of barren soil can be found.
[Glencoe Register:
The time is at hand for the commence
ment of the harvest of 1879. No NOR
promising crop than that of the presen
season has ever been seen in this section
and without a recurrence of disaster lik
those of the past three or four years, thor
will be an abundance of work for harvestin
machinery. Farmers will be very particula
this year in the selection of machines.
Redwood Falls redwood county, Gazette
! June 26.l
The weather continues very favorable TO
the growing crops and reports from all po
tons of this and Renville counties indicat
an excellent condition of all kinds of crop
l tS for ho
vest. There is not as rank a growth of stra
as last year, neither has wheat stooled out
we'll, but there seems to be nothing in tn
way of the crops maturing finely.
Fairmont (Martin county, Sentinel, June 81
'"Good crop prospects, is the report {
farmers from all parts of the country. =
DR.. Rice, who has recently returned from
visit to Luverne, says the grasshoppers al
plentiful in that vicinity and around Worth
! ington, but their depredations have thus fl
} been confined to the crops on last year
breaking. The people, he reports, are i
low spirits,and view the situation with alarr
Mantorvllle dodge county, Express, June q
A close observing farmer who has travele
over this and adjoining counties to some g:
tent during the last ten days or two week
reports that the weeds in grain fields hav
fast disappeared by the use of the scythe,an
IN some instances reapers and headers ha'
been used for their destruction. He al:
says that during that time there has been
vast improvement in the prospect of ia
, yield of small grain of all kinds.
Chaska Carver county, Herald, June 26
We made short trip thr.. ugh the COUNT
this week, and found the crops looking splel
did-wheat especially. Corn and potato
t are also looking good, Notwithstanding Il
wet weather of the past two months. A fe
:, weeks of warm weather will fetch the "sms
grain'' out of the wooIs and assure MINI
sofa an cold fashioned crop" y =