The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-18


credence. must point directly to
time, place and circumstance. Moth
ing less than this can support SO
grave u charge, involving not the re-
putation Of one man alone, but the
good name Of an entire State.
MICHIGAN is in the throeS of
anguish over the loss Of a great per
cent. of her wheat crop, Occasioned
10y incesSant rains since harvest. Re
turns have been received by the
Secretary OF the State from go cor.
respondents representing 696 town.
ships. Five hundred and seventy
three returns are from 4D3 townships
and 80 returns are from 4O2 townships
in the southern four tiers oicounties.
On the lst day of August the wheat
crop of Michigan promised an ag-
gregate yield of 32.000,OO0 bushels,
which is an average of 1879 bushels
per acre of the acreage reported ~
the supervisors in May. This, it is
estimated, would have been the pro-
duct had the entire crop been secured
that day. On the 31st day of July
there began rain which for extent,
duration, steadiness. and accompany
ing high temperature has probably
never before been known in AIichi-
gan during the wheat.harvest period.
From that date to and including
Aug. 5, it rained every day, and at
lansing "n several days almost in
notwithstanding 2ie damage
To the wheat CROP rnc srs,Ssments re!
ceived from correspondents Aug. .,
., 10, and IL, show that one-fOurth of
the whole crop, or about. 100000
bushels in the southern two tiers of
counties, and one-half to two.thirds
OF Il crop, or about 100000 bushels
in the third and fourth tiers, making
total of over 100000 bushels of
wheat in the southern four tiers of
countiS unsecured, all of which is
badly damaged and much of which is
probably entirely worthless.
+. ). CHRISTENSEN, Assistant Sec.
rotary of State and Commissioner of
Statistics, has issued preliminary
statement Of the acreage and yield OF
the principal cereals of the State for
the year 1881, and also the acreage
for 1882, as compiled by him from
officials returns made to the State
bureau of statistics. Tha total acre.
age of wheat for 1881, as Won iE'the
table is 2,S79 .285 acres, ana the acre
age Of the same cereal for 1889 is 2.
jG9, 6a1 acres, showing decrease OF
800, 568 acres. The crop for 1881 is
reported TO be 1858, 49, bushels,
which gives an average yield per acre
for the State of IL .35 bushels. The
average yield per acre for the State
of the other principal cereals was
for 1881 : Oats, 1920 bushels; corn
80. % bushels; barley, 29.98 bushels
And the increase in acreage for 1885,
is: Oats, 1854 per cent. corn 57.3;
per cent, and barley, $3.50 per cent
In Blue Earth county, we find tht
acreage of wheat for 1881 to he SO,
Il2, with average yield only 0.74
bushels per acre. This year there
are only 62,933 acres of land devoted
to wheat. In oats we have an IN
creased acreage over 81 of 1884 acres
There were 20, 457 acres in Blue Earti
county devoted to corn i'm 1881, while
this year we find our farmers have
increased that acreage 20 $3.50
which places VS. third county in the
State in the cultivation of that pro
duct. 1t will he observed by the
above figures, therefore, that while
our agriculturist have decreased the
area of wheat from last year 20,789
acres, an increase of 18. 495 acres la:
been made i'm corn. And nOtwith
standing this has been all unusually
favorable season for wheat and tn
reverse for corn, we believe the enc
will demonstrate the wisdom of oul
farmers in making the change.
THERE has been NO little amount o.
sentimental gush about Mark ii
Dunnell's great goodness as a MAJ
and Congressman, going the round!
of Il "select few" Democratic and dis
affected Republican newspapers, since
his overwhelming Waterloo, tn,
former element led and egged on by
the st. Paul GI0Je-the latter by the
e1fervescent Castle, OF the Dispatch
who seems determined to this veal
act as captain and first lieutenant OF
a defunct faction. What is there
about this man Dunnell's career that
causes such crashing of teeth and