Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-22
THE CROPS,
Reports from the Line of the Omaha Road

Reports from the Line of the Omaha Road
LEMARs. Aug. 21.-Stacking most done.
Weather all that could be desired. No rain
for three weeks. Some fax to cut yet. Corn
| doing finely.
Administering very nearly finished.
Threshlng not yet commenced. Weather
clear and warm.
Sioux Falls-Small grain all cut and abont
one. half stacked. Corn on old ground look
ing well.
misunderstanding through. Stacking and
| threshing commenced. Weather dry and
| warm.
Luverne-Havestiug nearly all over; some
threshing. All grains yielding as we'll as ex-
pected. Corn booming.
Beaver Creek Harvesting and stacking
continues under favorable weather. Grain
all harvested save wheat and fax, which is
| about one-hal in shock. Corn healthy.
Valley Springs-Haryesting, done except
| fax, which will begin this week. Threshing
| will commence this week.
misunderstanding wheat and barley
nearly done. Threshing commenced. Flax
about ready to cut. Weather clear.
Har;ford-Harvest nearly finished and
about half stacked. Some oats and flax
threshed; no wheat threshed yet. Clear, cool.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nall uOue. VIII De
some threshipg done here this week.
Salem-Weather continues fair. Stacking
| nearly all done. Threshing will commence in
earnest this week. Corn doing fine.
Lake Crystal-Weather favorable. Stack
ing mostly finished. Very little threshing.
Corn good.
Blue Earth-Cutting about through. Farm
ers busy stacking. Some are threshing oats
averaging sixty to seventy bushels per acre,
md irhinC forty pOun6s bushal Waoib
er dry and fine.
Winnebago all finished and
most of stacking done. But little threshng
has been done. Corn in splendid condition and
weather clear and pleasant.
Garden City-Weather fire and farmers are
getting grain in stacks in splendid condition;
will be finished in few days. Corn still doing
first rate.
Amboy-Weather favorable for farmers to
finish stacking Corn doing fine.
Eimore-Grain mostly in stack. Weather
dry.
Vernon Center-Weather continues favor
able. Stacking about half done. Corn doing
well.
Jackson-Small grain all harvested and
threshrg going on. Corn looking well, but
in need of little rain.
st. James-Farmers are nearly through
harvesting in this section of country. A
large amount of hay is being cut Corn is
looking pretty well. Weather partly cloudy
and warm.
Emerson-No change in crops since last
report. Good corn weather.
Norfolk-Weather very dry and hot. Con.
siderable corn on high and sandy land is suffer-
ing for rain, and If We do not get rain soon
crops will be greatly damaged.
Wayne-Weather splendid for corn. No
rain yet No change from last report.
Bancroft-The corn crop needs rain.
Ponca-Harvest through and threshing
begun. Corn not doing well on account Of
10 rain. Looks as If we would get rain TO-
night.
Covington-Corn getting along fine; every
indication of q fine large crop.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Baldwin, Aug. 21.-Wheat nearly all in
shock. Other crops doing well.
Augusta-Harvesting is advancing rapidly.
Most of the grain will be cut this week. Some
threshing has been done from the shock. No
stacking done yet. Weather clear and pleas
ant.
ting along fast with their stacking. COnsid-
cradle grain will be threshed out of the shock.
ElrOy-Harvesting is progressing finely; if
present weather continues this week will fin
ish the greater part of it.
misunderstanding nearly finished crops
in good condition.
Fairchild, Wis-No change to report re-
garding crops. Good weather continues.
Nothing SO far to hurt crops and harvesting
in good way OF completion.
Mankato-The farms in this section look
splendid. They have not stacked very much,
but it is all No. l, and a great deal moro
wheat was planted in this section than was
expected. Many farmers say they think there
is bigger crop than there has been for seven
or eight years.
Henderson-Wheat is all cut and will all be
stacked by Thursday. Threshing commenced
to-day. 1t will average eighteen bushels to
the acre. Oats are very good. Corn is grow.
ing fast, but it is thought frost will kill it be-
fore 1t ripens.
St. Peter-Grain in this vicinity is about all
cut and threshing commenced. Wheat is
turning out from fifteen to twenty bushels per
acre and grading No. 1 hard. Oats turning
out from forty to sixty bushels per acre.
Corn progressing finely.
Heron Lake-Oats and barley cut and nearly
all stacked. Wheat nearly all cut and looks
like good hard berry; very little threshiDg
done yet. Flax nearly ripe; none cut. Corn
booming; will ali get ripe before frost.
Hadley-Oats and barley all harvested. The
wheat will be finished by the middle of the
week; considerable stacking done; most farm.
ers stacking to day; no threshing done. The
bulk of the fax will be cut this week. Corn
coming right along.