St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-08

and blight u hat can be the use OF start
.Ing the damaging report recently circulated
about this valley crop? As Whole the
average from tie county VIII ne hlgh. Inc
wheat Is very clean and well hucd Only
.baYa can co!Ne from the lies about rust and
blight. and we are naturally indignant at
.1h-m. ii is fer tie my rest OF all 10 be
loacst and candid. and all honest farmers
here deprecate sjr'h damaging reports.
EVERYTHING indicates as good crop as three
wears ago. The warm weather has brought
forward the corn crop timely. IN spite OF the
.monthiy fr0Sts. Farmers viii cut just a.
soon as is practicable ID avoid the early
irostS.
TIUE EARTH COUNTY.
Special to the Globe.
MANEAT0. Aug. THE few farmers
who have time 20 visit tle city report 4
good crop in every direction. 4. Turner
q Eagle Lake says tine corn in his vicinity
never looked better and Jh0t The smali
grain isvciy GOOD. Joseph May. who raises
as much wheat a. ANY ol our farmers says
mat he never saw a 0asier prospect for
good crop of wheat and tlat the quality Is
unusually good. tie heads long. well filed
and plump Col. Smith OF Rapidan finished
cutting his small grain about thc middle OF
he week and says mat upon examination
Je finds gerry small percentage OF the
Wheat IN ANY Wjy affected pE blight or rust,
while the oats and barley are better than
usual. Through tine county at large The
small grain is already n the shGck. few
farmers beginning 10 timesh to-day. Al
most the universal verdict is that the sea
son is more than an average one. or course
We have our chronic cTOaEers who would
not be satisfied If every acre yielded fifty
bushels and hn price WAS $50 per bushel.
Engineer Smith. OF the Chicago 1lliW2u-
lee d ST. Paul railroad. says that his crop
VIII average about twenty-five bushels Of
wheat to an acre. all of the best Fife.
DAY COUNTY.
Fpecial TO the GLOBE.
WEBSTER. Oak, AUG. THE state
ment made that blight exists in grain be-
tween hIdover and A[iIbanlz IS not true.
The most diii-ent inquiry has JAILED to dis
cover n single case OF blight in the territory
banned The harvest in the hills is well adj
Nanced and the crop is heavier than ever
known before. The berry is bright ard
clean. Here record a prediction: Before
fhe list of January the wheat from the
coteaus or hills will be in bigger demand.
1or milling purpose, at higher prices, than
HAT produced in amy otl.er part Of the
whole territory of Dakota. We have had
az abundance of rain, and this, with the
warm vaather. VIII make our corn crop GER
tam. There is a large crop growing,
a WET HARVEST.
Special TO The GLOBE.
WATERFOWL. Wis. Aug. This sec
ton is going through the ordeal Of wet
harvest. The barley is all cut, but c0nsid-
cradle Of the crop stiil remains in the shock
too wet 10 be stacked OF secured in bins,
ana the result is a small portion is dam
aged by sweating and growing. On the ay
crage the crop is good quality
and yields fully forty bushels
10 the acre. with a berry that
IS colored. however, from the excessive
rains. which viii lessen the price from To
10 cents busheI. A new pest is reported
in portions Of Jefferson and Dodge counties
in the appearance of grasshoppers in large
numbers. which are raraging the oats, corn
and other crops to some extent. They are
1.-THE kind that have always been known here,
but they now appear in great numbers.
FALSE ALARMS.
Special to the CLIQUE
FARGO, Oak, Aug. Tn interviews to-
day with a number Of large wheat-growers
in the vicinity Of the bonanza farms
about Casselton, they express the opinion
that the recent reports OF damage to wheat
i'm Cass county of > 10 33 per cent are eX-
a1geraJi0nS for a purpose. Judge Good
ilich cutting $50 acres three miles from
CaSseltOn says he never had finer wheat.
In Is nor d3,uagaG in The least. is a large.
.upr{ect grain and will average over twenty
bushels 10 tie acre J. c. Gill, cutting
b. 00a acres. saws the damage by the weather
is VERY small. He believed the yield in
Cass county and most counties north viii
be greater than last year On some of the
largeSJ farms the seed was put III badly, re-
duciUg the Yield
SCOTT COUNTY.
Special to the Globe.
SuAKopEE, Mimi, Aug. Farmers on
fbc 7,,afrie surrounding the city will finish
H., a,,++i,.,r ,,f or,i-, to-,uorroyv In tho
- :. a., IfftI, l,aoIy,,,ord Tho
tlH',l nv wa 1., i,,t,r,t-.I Nv, mfr
a,al,Ia ,,.a,thcr Prayi.us estimates Of q
f., ,,,,,, a-lalf IN +,votl,i,.is of
%i,,,.foIi n e. J., bai,r verified. he
,,I,oiit,. ca.., =, forefoId a tllis time. Two
,ia,y nr.t.. have a..nearcd here among the
z..baot ON. ia small hard black bug
Which ATTACKS the Grain in the heart. and
4,n nti,f,.a small worm which eats the grain
o4 tha ti.s1 Joint. Verv little damage has
,1,.ar dona 6y either. however this season.
ri,I,ara .,ra an unusual number OF common
c,,.se.Lo,,,,ars ,,rasenf this wear: no locusts
Is, he fo,,nd a1nnny Them. however. and no
-, /, ,I,,,,o nv tbeu,
'''''''''=0 49,
CHIPPEWA FALLS.
CHIPPEWA fALLs, W IS. aug f:-l iC
wheat harvest IS wen uIluei way III Vi!'s
county. = yea Ol ii"-il CI5i''ci u