Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-22

seeding on the Chicago, st. Paul g.
Omaha road were received yesterday:
Eastern Division-Rusk - Crops all
looking good.
Northern Division-Deer Pa th-Farm-
ers all through seeding, and, with the
| late rains and warm weather, prospects
are now fiattering
| st. Paul Division-St. Peter-Corn
planting is being pushed as fast as posi-
BILE, and small grain is reported to be
| looking well. Weather clear and fine.
LIE Sueur--W Gather warm and cloudy.
Wheat doing finely. Corn planting well
under way Farmers happy as to pros
poets.
Blakely Small grain doing nicely
Corn partly in. weather favorable for
all crops.
Belle Plaine--Corn planting progress
ing nicely. All small grain looking
wUll.
Henderson-Wheat and other grain
looking very fine. Corn planting about
finished.
Mankato-Wheat and oats about all
sown. Corn planting well advanced.
Weather warm, with moderate rain.
Sioux Falls Branch - Worthington-
The pre- vailing wet weather has prevent.
ed farmers in this vicinity from planting
corn, ETC., since last report The grain
now in is doing only fairly.
Sioux Falls-All crops except corn are
looking well. Weather cool and rainy
Brandon--Wheat doing WELL Other
grains rot looking so well on account of
wet weather.
Adrian-Crops doing finely. Corn not
all in. Weather wet and cold.
Valley Springs--No change in crop re-
port. Weather unfavorable for corn
planting.
Luverne - Crops, especially small
grain, looking fair. Corn nearly all in.
Weather very unfavorable at present;
heavy rain yesterday.
Hartford--Weathe cold. Crops that
are in are doing well.
Rock River Branch--Rock Rapids
Small grain doing nicely. Poor prospects.
Too cold wet weather for corn.
Blue Earth Branch--Elmore--W Weather
growing warmer Small grain looking
well. Corn planting well along
Blue Earth City--Small gram looking
well. Farmers are planting corn.
Weather good.
Vernon Center-Small grain looking
well. Farmers will finish planting corn
this week.
Garden City-Corn planting well along.
Weather good. Wheat looking well.
Lake Crystal-Crop prospects good
Everything looking well. Nearly all of
the corn crop has been planted.
Black Hills Branch-Avoca- Small
grains looking we'll Corn planting well
along. Cold and wet.
Woodstock-Wheat looking fine. Large
acreage of flax and corn being put in.
Hadley--The rain of yesterday put a
stop to corn planting and sowing flax.
About one half the crop in. Wheat, oats
and barley locking fine.
Black Hills Branch-Heron Lake -
Crops in this vicinity looking well, owing
| to the cold backward spring we have had.
The greatest portion of the grain sown
is flax, which is quite promising. The
wheat acreage will be much less this year.
But little corn is planted yet. The rain
will delay it considerably. Other crops
are looking as well as could be expected.
Sioux City Division-SiouX City--Crops
in this vicinity are looking fine and the
prospects are favorable.
LIE Mars-Weather rainy the past two
days. Corn nearly all in. Acreage
so per cent. larger than last year. Wheat
is coming up and is looking finely. Pros
poets are of large crops.
Sheldon-Prospects for crops not very,
good now. Too much wet weather.
Brewster-More rain. Ground too
wet to work. Small grain is coming up
well where sown.
ON THE MANITOBA ROAD.
The st. Paul g. Manitoba received in
formation from about twenty points
along the line of that road. All of this
information was to the point that the
seeding was all done, and that the crops
were in fine condition. In some places it
was reported to be cold and wet. The
| farmers claim that this is all the better.
The close of the seeding season is ten
days earlier than last year. All along the
line the report is the same. One farmer
near Fargo reports that his oats are ten
inches high. The wheat fields look green,
bright and vigorous.
Estimates of increased acreage on the
st. Paul s. Manitoba road are from 20 to
20 per cent.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.
The Northern Pacific road had reports