New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-02
WHEAT IN THE NOR7HUEST.
MORE DAMAGE by FROST AND MIST THAN WAS
AT FIRST ESTIMATED.

Chicago Sept. Tho Northwest enjoyed six days
of perfect weather up yesterday and the corn crop
made a decided gain. Indeed all manner Of farm work
facilitated and great progress was made In har-
vosting and thrcshins spring wheat and oat crops.
Fourteen days more without frost and the crop
Will be safe. The weather yesterday and today, how
ever was much colder and predictions OF early frosfs
are again made \ correspondent Of The Chicago
orald who has spent fourteen days along the line of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, tccgraphs that In
Maplc'On. Cassclton and Whcatland the thrcshng Is
soug rapidly The Injury to the spring wheat
proves much greater than had been expected or sup
posed It could Many fields when harvested promised
yield of twenty bushels to the acre. but turn
ing ont eight, ten and twelve and the quality quite
inferior. Tower cry .t Valley city have only fairly
begun, and The crop there Is badly damaged that
It will hardly pay the expenses of threshing and har-
veSung. Al Grandon twenty-five miles north OF Fargo,
farmer who had $40 acres Of wheat. when he be-
gan to cut It thought IL would yicld twenty-five
bushels per acre. lie has just finished threshng,
and reports bushels. with grade Of No. and 3.
Fargo sends the rcsuI, OF harvest follows: Farm
who have been and are ihrcshlDg their wheat
report the yield as from to ten bushels, when
they expected fifteen eighteen, and fourteen days
ago fom twenty twenty five bushels. The grades
oa from one to three points. \ miller from Cas,
County, Dakota which produces more spring wheat
than any other county In the Northwest says he Is
now obliged TO send very blue and discouraglng
ors about tn, wheat crop IN h.s county. The
III not be over ten bushels and much OF the whcht
VIII grade 40. 3. Thousands of Will be burned
oil ard cut Rust and frost have done the work.
This rust feature the thrcshlng machine rcvovcs
becomes and more apparent every day. Rust and
blight reported thirty days ago proving almost
"a great a factor In the present inferior quailty II
the spring wheat and have done actually more dam.
age 10 the crop than the frost.
CORES pondcni Who has Just been through tho fol-
lowins counties IN an open buggy and on loot says:
d" | have lcrn through Union. ilay, Lincoln. Turner,
Nee OOk, MINER Hanson. DAWSON, Sandborn Kings
bury Beade, spinh. faulk, Mnnchaha ana Porter
Counties. cannot put the yield in the first four
teen counties above eight bushels. Porter, the last
ramed, VIII so twenty and hnc quality of wheat.
VI hic thr fourteen Will De- mostly very poor quality
much Il It VIII 60 rejected No. D. One field OF ninety
thrcshed cat 500 bushels. few fields will go
sixteen 10 eighteen OF good quality but they raio
, never saw 50 uneven crop BEFORE
southern Minnesota reports week OF very fne
weather The yield so fai Is 20 per cent below last
year and the quality much below former estimates A
rcpor, from Douglas County Northern Minnesota says
/ they have been thresMnS for week: that the
pected yield Of wheat was eighteen TO twenty fvo
bushels the actual yield twelve TO sixteen.