Daily globe., 1883-08-07
official Crop Reoort.


The Minnesota statistical agent of the
United States agricultural department, in
his report for August 1st, gives the condi-
tions of the crops of this state as follows,
viz: Wheat 102 per cent, corn 81 per cent,
rye 81 per cent, oats SO per cent, barley
96 per cent, buckwheat SO per cent, pota-
toes 101 per cent, amber sugar cane 83
per cent, and beans sc per cent.-the unit
representing an average good crop being
in each instance 100.
The returns from the southwestern coun-
ties touching the wheat crop are uniform
ly good and, but for the damage done by
the storm of July 21st, would send the
average condition for the state several
points higher. They also indicate fully
average yields for oats, barley, rye and
potatoes. The Lac qui Parle county
correspondent makes an especially
favorable return concerning small grains,
and says that corn Will be more than an
average crop, if early frosts do not inter-
fere- A Watenwan county correspondent
says that crops of all kinds are, with them,
the best they have had in fourteen years.
very careful correspondent in Pipe
stone county writes that the acres in wheat
IN that county are one-sixth more than
last years and the yield will be from fifteen
to twenty-five bushels per acre. Oats
forty to seventy bushels per acre, with
one-thlrd more acres than last year.
Barley thirty to forty-fve bushels and rye
fifteen to thirty bushels with considerable
increase of acreage.
From the southeastern counties
reports indicate generally good crops,
Considerable complaint is made of rust in
wheat and occasionally of blight. Storms
also did good deal of injury in places,
beating the wheat down and rendering it
difficult to save. The chinch bugs are
likewise reported to have done considera-
BILE damage in some fields. The areas in
jured by these agencies are, in each in
stance, small, but make together signifi-
cant aggregate. Barley was discolored in
consequence of wet weather, the yield,
otherwise, being above an average.
The returns from counties east of the
Mississippi river, though favorable, are
not so encouraging generally. They re-
port wheat considerably less than an aver
age in yield, though superior in quality.
Rye and barley are likewise short, while
oats are rather more than average.
From that part of the state north of the
Minnesota, and west of the Mississippi
river and south of the north lines of Big
Stone, Swift, Kandiyohi and
Wright counties, the returns are,
with two exceptions, more than usually
favorable for wheat, representing the yield
either at or above an average. Oats about
"a, rye 100 and barley 81 per cent. of aver
ages. Corn is marked as low as 76 per
cent. of an average condition for this time
Of year, but with the provision that it is
rapidly improving and, unless caught by
early frosts, is likely to yield within 80 per
cent. of the good crop.
For the counties north of the above
Excepting those of the Red River Valley
the returns indicate 80 per cent. of a good
average yield for wheat, and between 80
and SO per cent. for oats, rye and barley
Corn is reported as promising from IS to
to 80 per cent, with probability of exceed
ing this in the event of favorable weather
for forty days to come.
Red River valley counties
returns average 81 per cent
cent. as the condition of wheat in that re-
gion, 72 per cent. for oats, and 81 per cent.
for barley.
All the counties north of latitude 48 de-
grees thirty seconds suffered somewhat
from drouth, circumstance of so rare
occurrence in that region as to make it
one of the phenomena of this som ewhat
phenomenal season.
One hundred and sixty-nine answers to
inquiries as to the probable yields per
acre Of small grains, on being averaged,
give the following results: Wheat 15A
bushels, oats 40 bushels, rye
Is bushels, barley 25 bushels.
Allowance remains to be made, however,
for injuries resulting from rust, blight
etc., which will slightly reduce these fig
ures, especially as to wheat. The agent
gives it as his opinion, based on the report
that while the wheat crop will be consider
ably above the average, taking both guam
tity and quality into consideration, the
yield will hardly reach fifteen bushels per
acre for the entire state.