Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-10-18
Chr fteemau.
Letter From Minnesota.
FEEEnoRN, MINI, Oct. 5, 'S2.

was all rlgut dDouL IL eAOoPe thO law 'h'
!, was so far behind time that it seemed
impossibc il could escape being overtaken
bv lack Frost Even the most sanguine
dill not dare hope for it. l considered
tbatwith even exceptionally good weather
this crop must be failure or the nexi
,biuq to it. In this l simply echoed tht
sentiment | found prevailing all around
mo Farmers, with cribs full of old corn.
refused to part with it at any price they
were 50 certain of corn famine the com
ing year. Corn was so late that even a
miracle could hardly save it. But nature
knows her own business better than those
who predict for her. If she is baiAed in
one direction she makes it up in another.
If winter overlaps the time which belongs
to summer at the beginning, summer will
demand full equivalent of winter at the
end. 1t seemed as though hot weather
would never come this season, but it did
come at last and came in full measure.
To he sure it trenched some on the autumn
months, but it came all the same. We
had but little real summer weather during
the months of May, June and July, oCca
sonally hot day would give promi,t
that the heated term was near at hant
but straightway it would turn so cold rs
10 lead one to fear frost even in Md
summer. heard one good housewife s'}
she moved her cooking stove out N D.
the "shanty" five times in anticipation i
hot weather and every time the cold CO.
pelled her to have II taken b'ck aga
But in spite of the Unprecedented co,
ness, in spite of the fact that IN the mid'a
of August corN Waa not 50 forward as
ought to hav. been IA tho middle of July
in spite OF al. predictions and prophecies
to tire conrury-we are going to have corn
1t NAV no. Iaau extraordinary big crop
neither $50. be al extraordinary lilll
one. AIN a, aa officers Of election
somelim,- .r, the returns are not all ~
vet it Is sal. enough 10 say that we shp
have goal Lair, substantial crop. !.
will not l,4 much ID Jay below the aver
age. Gool ,ouut cu,n is being gathcre'
now from fields thu >,N weeks or so ag'
were condemned as hopnlossly backward
The price of OH corn has come down %
cents per busA1l ana thore is general
feeling of satisfaction and thankfulness.
The heat Of the summer came the las
of August and the frs. of September. l.
was the genuine article when it did come
As late as Monday, Sept. IS, the mercur'
was above 90 in the shade, 1t had beep
cold so long it took us Ivy surprise. Il
was hot in the house and hot out OF doors
hot in the wind and ho! IN the shade, and
most insutf3rablY hot where there was
neither wind or shade. 1t was too hot It
keep still AMI decidedly 100 hot to work
Farmers would wipe the perspiration
which rolled of their brow, but all dispo
siion to complain was promptly checked
by the thought Ill IS Just what is needed
for our corn. And corn developed won
derfully. Jumped ahead. Some enthu.
siastic farmers declared it possible to see
it grow, and when the frost came large
share Of the corn WAS safely out of the
WAY. So far as this immediate vicinity
is concerned the prediction made in the
New York I1ibune in reference to The
hopeless condition of the corn crop wes
of the Mississippi is not going to be ful
filled.
The threshng of wheat is pretty well
aong, Every morning before sunris,
even, and in almost every direction, tht
peculiar hum Of the iron cylinder can bt
hesrl and often it is continued long aftel
nightlall The yield of wheat is not large
but fully above tho average Of the last
three or four years, Il ranges all thc
way between 10 and Is bushels TO thu
acres. The quality of the wheat is bette
than las. year. the floods of rain las
year made the marketing of good whea
almost an imnossibility. This year the,
are no floods, but the extreme opposi'c
and this removes the annoyance of havr
to dea with damp grain. Prices are r.
SOnabe for the beginning OF The sea-
From Is to S5 cents per bushel havo "a
far been offered As usual some are
gune of higher price, while n.r,
not expect it. The faur u reyu..
prices for wheat is alwav, very uncclla.
The shrewdes, ,les,rrs .r. often wide
the mark
The sorgha" busiuo-. is getting 20 I,
quite an enterprise mere IN Minnesota
There has haaa revival in tue raisin
and maru'.a.W, OF -YrgA4m ,yrup with
the las lc4 years. some large reliuin
establishments are In operation. The
claim % b, aoc t. mako excellent sug
from the suryuu .ue 10y their process
Judging irou some OF the specimens
have seen, 1t w,d prove . formidable r.v