Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-25

Minnesota Great Increase of FlaS Gull
ture in the Southwest.
ALONG THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAlLkoAD. {
Reports by mail to General Manager Haupt
on the 21st were as follows: Along the up
per Mississippi farmers were anxious because
of the hot weather. Wheat does notstand as
thick as in past favorable years, but has head
ed long and is filled we'll. From the Mlssis-
sippi to the Red liver there was some com
plant of lack of rain, and that the hot dry
weather had slightly injured wheat ana oats'
but was more injurious to late planted vege-
tables. West of the Red river, some llttle
damage has been done by migratory grassnop-
pers, the loss in limited regions being as hlgh
as two to three bushels per acre, but the wheat
filds generally look well and promise favor
able crop. Experienced observers estimate
the average yield from Verndale, Mimi, to
jamestown, Oak, at about sixteen and hall
bushels per acre. On the large farms near
Glyndon and on the west side of the Red river
an average yield of eighteen bushels per acre
is estimated Wheat cutting will begin this
week.
COL. r. M VIEWPOINTS OBSERVATIONS.
Col. R. NJ. Newport, land commissioner OF
the Northern Pacific Railrflad company, re-
turned yesterday from a lesurely trip to the
end of the company's track on the Yellow
stone, during which time he made such exam
nation and inquiry as he could regarding the
condition of crops End the movements os the
grasshoppers which have lately appeared III
Dakota. He learned that The grasshoppers
were migrating in considerable numbers, ny
ing high and with the prevailing wind OF their
attitude to the northeast. Quite large flights
have landed at different places in northern
Dakota and have fed about the edges OF
wheat fields, but have resumed their flight
after two or three days, without deposltlng
eggs, and without making serious raid on
crops anywhere. Fine growing showers nave
lately occurred all along the road and nave
relieved the fears of farmers concerning
blight in grain and loss on late planted
root crops. From the best
information he could obtain he estimates that
the wheat fields will yield an average crop,
and that the average in wheat is increased over
last year about thirty per cent. Oats were
being harvested in the Minnesota counties last
week.
ALONG THE ST. PAUL Il MANITOBA LINES.
Daily reports by telegraph from all Telegraph
offices of the st. Paul & Manitoba Railroad
company are received at the general managers
office in this city. With occasional excep-
tions, where storm damage has occurred, all
crops are reported in good condition and max
ing fine progress toward harvest time. An
average crop of wheat, or thirteen to fifteen
bushels per acre seems TO be generally Indl-
Gated in the central and western parts of this
State and on the west side of the Red river,
from Breckenridge to Casselton the prospects
promise an average of sixteen TO seventeen
bushels. In the Red River valley, both
sides, north of Glyndon and Fargo,
an average yield of seventeen TO nineteen bush
els seems to be indicated. These estimates are
not as large as made the most favorable of
preceding years, but are not made with refer
ence to exceptional fields and sections where
very large yields are predicted, or to other
exceptional fields and sections where extreme
heat and rain storms have damaged crops.
Harvesting will be begun all along the sew
eral lines of this company this week
ALONG THE wINoNA ST. PETER RAILROAD.
Crop reports of Friday received at Winona
are summarized as follows: '.Frem Winona
west as far as Rochester, chinch bugs have
worked havoc. This, aided by the warm,
muggy weather of the past week, producing
blight and rus, has caused many fields to be
worthless save for the value Of the straw
The berry of what wheat is left is small and
shrunken. Careful estimates place an aver
age of seven bushela to the acre in this por-
tion ofthe State. From Claremont to Waseeh,
a section not visited by the chinch bugs, the
average will be better, increasing as you 60
west. The berry, however, does not show up
as well as desired. From Mankato to Spring
field, the section covered by the heavy rain
and wind storms, the yield becomes lighter.
The berry is good and plump of what wheat
is left standing, but it is doubtful if there
will be yield of more than ten bushels to the
acre. From Springfield west to Watertown
Dakota, on the Winona 81 ST.. Peter, to
Huron, on the Chicago q Dakota railroad
but fair yield is reported, some places being
good, others poor. The berry in this section
is much better than further east. The barley
crop, which is now being harvested, will be q
fair yield in southern Minnesota. Some places
report it badly discolored. Oats will be q
good crop, and of good quality.
ALONG THE c., ST. P. & o. RAILWAY.
Reports of Saturday, 1.-THE ed, from the
main line and branches of the Chicago, St
Paul & Omaha railway are as follows: Or
the Sioux Falls and Role Valley branches
wheat is not doing well, except on the uplands
about Sioux Falls. Elsewhere it has been in
jured by the weather and rust. Corn, barley
oats and fax are doing well. On the Blue
Earth branch, wheat looks like short crop
and rust and damages by late storms are re
ported to both wheat and oats. COrnis doing
finely. At Mankato the wheat average is .es
timated at not over ten bushels per acre, but
barley oats, corn, sugar cane, etc, are re-
ported to be promising large yields. About
Belle Plaine, where harvesting will be fully
under way this week, large yield of good
wheat is expected. About Blakely blight in
wheat will reduce the crop. About Ottawa
the wheat is No. l. but in some places a light
stand. Oats look well and corn promises q
very large yields. From the eastern or Wis
consin divisions of this road reports differ
widely. AT Augusta harvesting is being
pushed to take the grain away from bugs
army worms and storms, which within the
last week have taken one-fourth the wheat
crop. About Eau Claire the small average oil
winter wheat is almost wholly failure, but
oats, corn and other crops promise well
About Elroy wheat and oats are badly lodged
and the former win be only half crop. Al
Millston, (near Black River Fa]ls) the wheat
is badly lodged and Is damaged by the chinct
bng. Chineh bugs and rust are also doing
some damage north of New Richmond.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT HATcH'ss OBJ
sERvATIoNs. =
General Superintendent Hatch, of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha, after western triI
last week over the lines of his company west
of st. Paul, reports that he found wheat to bt
doing fairly on the rolling prairies and up
lands, but badly on all low lands. For the
whole line he estimates the wheat at not over
half crop. Corn, but with decreased acre.
age, is doing fairly. Oats are generally doing
well. Barley is yielding well. The fax crop
is in splendid condition and covers greatly
increased acreage. Root crops are promising
abundant yields. As rule the farmers have
so diversified their labors that their loss on
wheatis little damage to them. They will have
oats, barley and fax to sell, much more than
enough to equal their incomes of any preyi-
Gus year. The railroad will also gain from