St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-25

Pipestone- Seeding is nearly completed,
except flax. Wheat will be all in about
next week. Considerable more flax will be
sown this season than last Wheat was out
of the ground in most places before the rain
Sunday.
Woodstock-There will be a larger acre
age of flax sown this season than last.
Wheat, oats and barley are all sown. Flax
is being sown rapidly. Very little corn is
raised in this vicinity.
Dundee-Wheat and oats are all sOwn.
There will be larger acreage of flax sown
this year than last Very little corn is
raised in this vicinity, and about the same
acreage of wheat and oats as last year.
Hadley-The acreage of oats and barley
will be about the same as last season, wheat
about 25 per cent. less. Flax will be in
creased over 100 per cent. There will be
no corn planted to speak of.
Stanton-The average sowing as COM
pared with 1884 is wheat.110, oats 100, bar
ley IS, flax 100, corn 10.
Worthington-The acreage of small grain
in this vicinity is about the same as last
season. About 80 per cent. more flax is
Sown.
Rushmore-Oats wheat and barley are
SOWn and will be about the same in acreage
as last year. Very little flax is sown yet,
but there is every Indication of an increase
in the crop this year of at least so per
cent.
Adrian-The increase in acreage in seed
this year in this locality will be IS per cent.
over that of last season. There will per-
haps be so per cent. more of flax sown this
season than last Wheat, oats and barley
will slightly exceed last years acreage. The
seeding is progressing fairly, but has been
retarded some by the late heavy rain. There
is but little flax and no corn in yet. There
will be a decrease in the corn acreage.
Drake-There will be an increase in acre
age in fax over last year of about % pei
cent. The acreage of wheat will be about
% per cent. less; acreage of barley and corn
about the same. Two-thirds of the seed is
S0Wn.
Luverne-The acreage Of fax and coarse
options is considerable in excess of 1884,
but there is less wheat. Small grain is in
early, and late rains are starting it in good
shape.
Brandon-There will be about one-third
more fax put in than last year and about
One-fourth less wheat. Other crops will be
about the same as last year. Seeding OF
wheat, barley and oats is nearly done.
Flax seeding is just commenced.
Beaver Creek-Seeding is progressing.
There will be slight increase in acreage OF
wheat, fax and corn. No fax is sown.
st. James-The acreage of wheat and
flax in this vicinity is about one-third more
than last year, and corn and oats about one
fourth more. The season is backward and
cold, with but little rain.
JOrdan-Small grain is nearly all sown.
The acreage Of wheat, oats and corn is
about the same as last year.
st. Peter-The acreage for flax in Nicol-
let. county this year will exceed 1884 by
per cent. Wheat acreage will be the
same. Oats and corn are same as in 1884.
The prospects are good for crops Of all
kinds at present.
HamiltOn-Very little seeding is done as
yet. Acreage will be about 10 per cent.
greater than last year for wheat. No flax
is raised about this locality.
Lake ElmO-AbOut the same acreage will
be seeded this year as last; mostly wheat
and barley; very little corn, flax, ETC.,
grown here for market.
Saltwater Misunderstanding is fairly
commenced here. The acreage will be
about the same as last year, principally of
wheat Very little of any other kind of
grain IS SoWn here.
Sibley-Seeding in this district is far
ahead of last season. There is about a
third more acreage Of fax this year. Other
small grain and corn is about the same as
last season.
lie Mars-There is not as much wheat
put in this year as last, but more oats No
other grains are i'll yet. Sowing will begin
next week.
Avoca-There will be about 25 or 80 per
cent. more flax sown this season than last.
Wheat, oats, corn, etc, will be about the
same. Wheat and oats are nearly all s0wn.
Not much flax has been sown as yet on ac-
count of the cold weather.
Salem-No flax is sown yet. Other small
grain is sOwn and under the influence of the
late rains is mostly up and looking finely.
There will be largely increased acreage of
both flax and corn and corresponding in
crease in wheat.
MontrOse-Ihe acreage in seed this year
is about % per cent. greater than last year.
The wheat crop will be about % per cent.
less and fax about 80 per cent. greater than
heretofore. There will be no marked change
in acreage on other crops. Seeding of
wheat, oats and barley pretty well along,
and weather mostly cloudy and cool.
HaTtford-There will be about % per
cent increase in acreage of fax this year
over that of last Wheat and other grain
will be about the same. The seeding of
wheat. oats and barley is about done. Very
little flax and no corn is in yet. The
ground is wet and weather cool.
wisconsin.
River Falls-Spring work is backward
and but little seeding is yet done The
acreage of wheat VIII probably be 10 per
cent less than last year. There will be a
slight increase in flax. some in wheat and
larger of corn and oats and still larger in
crease of meadow for grazing.
Baldwin-No seeding has been done here
yet The acreage this year will compare
with last year about equal both in acreage
and nature of seeding.
Misunderstanding has barely commenced
in this vicinity. The probabilities are that
the acreage for wheat will be fully as large
as last year. The weather for the coming
week will to great extent govern the
wheat acreage.
Rusk-Owing to the backward spring
farmers have but just commenced blowing.
The acreage and kinds of seed used will
compare evenly with last season.
Superior-About six hundred acres will
be cultivated here this year as against
seventy-ive last year. About seventy acres
of wheat, forty or fifty TO gardening and the
balance to oats. with calculations of seed
ing down with grass and timothy. No fax
will be sown.
Washburn-No seeding of any kind in
this vicinity.
Roberts - Acreage of wheat and barley
will be little less and corn little greater
than last year. and oats about the same as
last year. Considerable land will be sOwn
in grass. Flax is not grown here.
Elk Mound-The acreage of grain sown