The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-21

Reports nave been received from more
than six hundred correspondents, covering
every county in Minnesota and Dakota,
and the principal g~rain-raising districts in
Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
A careful digest OF the reports received in
dictate that the area sown to spring wheat
in Minnesota will be about 5 per cent more
than last year, in Dakota II to Is per
cent more, in Nebraska 5 per cent less, and
in Iowa and Wisconsin about the same.
THE acreage last year in Minnesota, as re-
ported by the agricultural department,
was, 3,1S1, 600, with an average of eleven
bushels per acre. making a total crop Of
3D. 900, 900 bushels. This report, as to
both acreage and yield, has been criticized
as being too high; but taking 1T to be cor
rect, this ear the acreage will be about
3 1900, 600, and persent indications point
to an average yield fully as large as
that of 1854 when the total crop
was so, 600, 900 or 3, 100, 600 acres. In
some OF the older counties the acreage has
decreased by reason OF farmers changing
for fax, a large crop OF which was raised
last year. The increase is due almost en-
tirely to the opening up OF new ground.
This crop OF the Northwest a marketed
early last fall at about the highest price OF
the year, and the low prices which have
prevailed since last December have not de-
tered farmers from seeding a large area.
There is a marked increase in the acreage
of corn and oats, but a decrease in flax.
Thu latter crop is very exhaustive
to the soil, and the farmers find
it more profitable to limit the produc-
tion Of this crop TO about two years at a
time. The increase IN the acreage of the
corn will be fully 10 per cent. over that OF
last year.
In Dakota fully IL per cent. more land
will be devoted to wheat than was ever
known before. A large amount Of new
breaking has been done, and while farmers
ia the older portions OF the territory are
going into coarse grains, grass and stock
raising, the decrease from this cause is
more than offset by the new land opened
up. The wheat acreage reported by the ag-
ricultural department last year was
1857, 900, an average yield OF 1913
bushels, making q total crop oil
%, 600, 600. From reports obtained from
every county in the territory it is esti-
mated that the acreage this yea is fully
IL per cent larger, making atotal OF nearly
$500, 600. The condition OF the crop at
this time compared with last year is much
better. With an average yield equal to
that OF last year. Dakota will raise over
thirty million this year. Barring accidents
to the crop and with favorable weather
from now till harvest. tits safeto say that
the total yield OF Minnesota and Dakota
combined will reach nearly ~seventy-fiv
million bushels. This estimate is ~ofcourse
speculative as the crop is subjected to mis-
haps which may greatly reduce the yield.
Advices from Honolulu give an account
ofa disastrous con1agration which oc.
Cured there April Is. The fire started in
n ~cookhouse in the Chinese quarters and
soon got beyond control OF the inadequate
fire department, and efforts were then di.
rected toward staying the progress Of the
flames by blowing up buildings. 1t was
not until eight entire squares, comprising
sixty acres OF the most thickly populated
portions of the Chinese quarters, were de-
stroyed, that the fires advance was stayed.
About 5000 people, mostly Chinese, are
left homeless. The loss il estimated at
81. SOC, 600; insurance. $230,000. Only
two lives Lost.
Miss Catharine Wolfe put a check for
SAC, 600 in the Easter day collection al
Grace church, N. Y. The entire collection
amounted to $54,0 600. Miss Wolie's con
! tribution will be devoted TO the purchase
OF st. Philips church in Mulberry street,
which is to be used as an Italian mission
in connection With Grace church.