St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-25
That a Very Fair Crop Will Be
Harvested in Min
neSOta. !.
The State Agricultural So
eiety Issues a Crop
Prospectus
Compiled From Letters Re-;
eeived From Every Pop-
ton Of the State.
The Result Agrees With Pre-
vious Reports and Is
Encouraging. ;:

The Minnesota State Agricultural so
ciety has issued its first annual pros
pectus of the condition of the crops.
The series OF letters sent out by the So
ciety in June to the farmers of the state
asking for definite information as to
crop, land and property conditions in
the different counties of the state, have
been returned with singularly vol
luminous mass of valuable information.
Particularly is this true as relates to
the crop statistics of the country, and
on which the respondents to the in
quiries have given most full replies.
The letters of inquiry, as sent out by
President Bushnell and Secretary
Denny, contain question which asks
for full statement as to the ''ordinary"
yield per acre of wheat, corn, oats, bar
ley, flax, potatoes and other cereals.
The idea was to get near to the
true average yield when the coun-
try is embarrassed by storm or
blight. The replies, as rule,
are given with this point in view; and,
coming, as they have, just on the edge
of harvest, and from the farmers of
the country who are to reap this har-
vest, they furnish as close al index to
the probable crop of this year as can be
had. The returns made harmonic
very closely with the crop reports of the
Manitoba and the Omaha roads, and
the commercial agencies. The society,
IN issuing condensed report from these
replies as to the probable crop, has adj
hered strictly to the returns made by
farmers from the cereal districts. The
number of replies received from each
county to date varies from one to eight,
and the crop data at hand and now
furnished cover fOrty-three counties
of the state, or more than half.
The probable average yield per acre
in each county has been aScertained by
the addition of all the estimates re-
ceived from that county, and then the
division of the total by the number of
estimates received.
Thus as near an average is obtained
as possible. 1t is probable that in some
cases the estimates have been too high,
and in others too low, but conservative
farmers furnished the data with a full,
knowledge of the climatic conditions of
this spring, and the improved weather
since the first of July. From these re-
ports the information is cleaned that the
central portion OF the state is fair to
have an average of fifteen bushels
per acre; while portions of the north
west and southwest will pull this down
, to within ten and twelve. Late cold
weather affected the corn crop, as the
dry weather does now. The first table
given shows covers twenty-eight of the
principal counties of the state, and their
probable average yield.
The second table covers fifteen other
counties, and the average yield from
them. While absolute accuracy is not
claimed. the condition of crops which
they represent speaks most glowingly
for fine harvest and a raising of the
siege of dull times. The agricultural
society is preserving all of this informa-
ton at the state fair grounds, where it
is properly collated and represents, as
nothing else ever has in this state, the
actual business condition of the great
agricultural fields of the state. The two
tables referred to are as follows:
FIRST TARJE