Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-06
THE WHEAT HARVEST.

Personal Reports From Different Sections
OF the Averages, 10 Bushels tn
Goodhme, re in WdsecG and Oimsted-
Fine Prospects in the Southwest and
Splendid Promise in the Red River Count
try.
Mr.. G. A. DeGraff returned to the city
yesterday from visit to his Lake Elysian
stock farm. Mr.. DeGraf reports the wheat
harvest nearly finished in that county WA
seca), and estimates the yield for the county
at ~ bushels per acre, though many claim
higher average. The quality, he says. is
very fine, mostly No. 2, with considerable
No. 1.
Attorney General Start, who returned to
st. Paul yesterday from his home in Roches-
ter, Olmsted county, makes similar re-
port as to the condition of the har-
vest in his county. The great bulk of the
wheat, he says, has been cut and is being
saved in fine shape. In some few aud scat
tered localities the grain was injured by
chinch bugs, and in these localities the yield
will be very small, but tbs large yield in
other sections, it is estimated, will bring the
average of the county up to twelve bushels
to the acre.
Frank Il. Sterrett, Red Wing, one of the
heaviest, as he is one of the best informed,
wheat operators in the State, was collared
by GLoRE reporter, while in st. Paul for a
few hours yesterday, on his way north.
Mr.. Sterrett says wheat cutting in Goodhue
is nearly completed, and that the yield for
the county will be fifteen bushels of excel
lent grain, Nos. and 2:
General Manager Sargent, of the Northern
Pacific railroad, who returned yesterday
from the Red River country, says that
Oliver Dalrymple estimates the average
wheat yield of the four great grain farms
managed by him at two to two and half
bushels per acre more than in 1878 or 1879.
These four farms, known as the Gran
din, Cass, Cheney and Dalton farms, in all
have $4,000 acres in wheat, and will yield
about $4,000 acres in wheat. There is
also considerable area on each
farm in oats and barley. The cutting of the
oats and barley was about finished when
Mrs. Sargent left Casselton Wednesday
morning and wheat cutting was to have
been commenced yesterday.
Capt. l.. I. Soule, of Crookston, who owns
and operates large farm about eleven miles
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that part of the State, while yet few days
from harvest, promises large yield of the
best quality. The experience of the season
has been surprise to him. Wheat fields
which were sowed when SO soft, with the
superintendent water Of last spring,tha the
cattle and horses were almost mired and the
seeders sank to their hubs, now bear even
and luxuriant growths of grain. Here and
there in such fields is hollow where
the water stood for weeks, which are bare of
grain, but the average is all that could be
desired and the aggregate will be enough to
make great addition to the wealth of Min
nesota.
A gentleman connected with the st. PAM
6 Sioux City land department, who has Just
returned from a journey through Lyon
Dickinson and Osceola counties, Iowa, and
jackson, Martin, Mobiles and Rock counties,
states that throughout his journey he found
everybody busy harvesting grain. With few
/ exceptions the grain fields through all that
region are looking we'll and seem to be
yielding something more than what
would be called an average
crop. On the big Rock county farm, owned
by an association of which Capt. Russell
Blakeley, of this city, is president, and fol
which Mr.. E. f. Warner, of this oity, is bust
ness manager, the wheat is cut at the rate OF
four hundred acres day.