Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-09-20
CROPS in THE NORTHWEST.
THE SITUATION LESS GLOOMY
THAN WAS ANTICIPATED.
CORN A MUCH LARGER YIELD THAN
EVER BEFORE KNOWN.

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Ususl---Whsat an Undoubted Failure---
Not Over rs Per Cent of q Crop---Hay
An Enromous Yield.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 17.R. G. Dun g. Co.'S
special crop reports for the week, al
though not as gloomy as those of former
weeks, show a not very encouraging out
took for the farmer. Some points in
Minnesota report that the increased
price of wheat will just nicely make up
the loss in yield, while from others comes
the disheartening news that not over %
per cent. of crop is being threshed out.
Frost has done damage in some parts Of
Dakota, especially to corn. The corre-
spondent at Beresford writes that wheat
yields in that section about two thirds of
. crop and oats and fax only slightly
better. Hay is plenty and corn the big
gest crop ever raised.
Bristol-The wheat yield nearly the
same as last year. Farmers getting
along nicely with their work.
4 Aurora Threshing is progressing rap
idly. Oats are q much larger crop than
last year. Merchants report increased
trade
Mellette-Wheat about ten bushels to
the acre. Farmers IRE in good shape foT
the winter, having had good crop last
year.
Woonsocket-F&rme are done thresh-
ing. Crops have turned out heavily.
Trade increasing
Egan--Whea yield poor-about half .
crop.
1 Northwood-Frost and rust have dam
aged wheat crop about one-third.
Groton The crop yield is an average
of twenty bushels per acre here. Wheat
good and trade good.
Blunt-Wheat averages twelve to flf-
teen bushels. Oats turning out fairly.
Millet very large crop.
Sioux Falls Small grain little above
the average.
Devils Lake-About 30 per cent. Of .
crop and that Of poor quality.
Minot-C Crop yield in this vicinity fair.
Wheat not affected by frost.
Redfield Wheat yields twelve to If
teen bushels per acre in this county.
Oats, miller, barley and corn an average
crop.
Dickinson Stark county farmers have
finished harvesting the best crops since
1883. Wheat about twenty-five
bushels per acre; oats sixty bushels per
acre; potatoes, large crop.
Howard-Wheat yield in county, four
teen bushels; oats, thirty-five to forty
bushels; barley, thirty bushels; fax, Ave
bushels; rye, fifteen bushels.
Ashton The wheat crop in the country
tributary to this town 10 poor, running
from four to twelve bushels per acre.
Oats also po6r. Flax fair. Corn crop
good and out Of danger. Hay crop
abundant.
Brookiugs-As threshing progresses
the damage done to small grain by hot
winds becomes more apparent. Wheat
that promised exceedingly we'll in the
early part of the season is yielding from
i've to twelve bushels per acre. It is safe
to say that the average yield of wheat
will not be above nine bushels in this
section. Oats are not yielding any bet
ter than wheat, all things considered,
some pieces going eighteen bushels to
the acre. Flax is splendid, the yield
being from ten to seventeen bushels of
good quality.
Yankton -One-half the corn crop in
South Dakota is ripe; the other half will
need two weeks Of good weather and no
FROST Frost is daily expected. The
corn crop is larger than at first estimated
and two-thirds Of the grain yield is corn.
In wisconsin.
Augusta Spring wheat a failure, also
barley. Oats, fair crop; also corn.
Will commence to cut next week. Pota-
toes excellent. Winter wheat and rye,
which is small crop here, are good.
River Falls The yield Of oats is turn
ing out very light. About thirteen bush
els to the acre will be the average. Corn
still continues to show well and promises
to be large yield.
Barron-Hay, our most valuable crop,
yielded 100 per cent. more than last year,
two to two and one-half tons per acre
not uncommon. Oats so per cent. less
than last year; quality rather light.
Spring wheat, entire failure. Winter
wheat, probably eighteen bushels per
acre.
Cumberland Crops in general, good.
Hay, Is per cent, better than last year.
Potato crop best ever raised in the
county.
Menominee- Business is good and our
city is prospering. Crop is 30 per cent
better than last year. Winter wheat,
good; spring wheat, bad failure. Oats,
small yield. Hay and corn, large yield.
Bloomer-The hay crop is the largest
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ago bid fair to be q large crop; rust has
struck them and the yield will be small.
The corn crop, If frost holds off, will be
fair.
Dickinson Gets There Again.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE Herald's
special says: It is semi officially an
nounced that Gen. John c. Parkhurst. of
Michigan, will within a few days be
nominated a. minister to Brussels to
succeed Mr.. Lambert Tree, who has been
transferred to st. Petersburg The ap-
pointment will be made at the instance
Of Postmaster General Dickinson.
To Relieve Emin Bsy.
WElsBADEN, Sept. 1.-THE Emin Bey
expedition committee has been formed.
DR.. Peters, the director Of the German
African company, has been chosen presi-
dent.
Better Than Starring Sullivan.