St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-01
NO FAILURE If DRY.
Information Wanted From Some
Experienced Grower of Flax.

Experienced Grower of Flax.
Special Letter to the Globe
FOUNTAIN, MIMI. Oct. 26-The
drought still continues here. and inter-
feres somewhat with the fall blowing,
but as yet the fall soon wheat does not
suffer much for the want of moisture,
yet it would be the better for it, if
good, steady rain would fall one day at
least. This dry weather is splendid for
threShing out the grain, and is improved
from the early morning until late in the
twilight hour.
From the engineer Of the "Traction
Engine company" / learned that in
nine weeks threshing only three days
had been lost in that time, and part
of that time, was made up of lost hours
by light shower or sprinkle of rain
that occurred the second week they
started out to work. The time of NOV
ing from farm to farm are counted as
working hours, and their earnings is
fraction over $1,000 so far, and
they have still more work to do, as well
as good-sized jobs of their own to round
up their season of threshing. They
are very tired lot of young men now
but very ambitious, and are looking to
the future for more rest and easy lite
Oll ttlCll WHICH, ldSU pay DtCIib ID
made or other desires are an accom-
plished fact to them.
They report the oats of heavy weight
and large yield. Barley is nearly all
first grade. Wheat is a surprise to all
who SOwed it last spring, being No.
in market, and yielding thirty bushels
and over to the acre every time. But
very small acreage was planted with
wheat, and that was put i'll on trial i'll
three or fOur-acre lots.
Timothy turns out equally good. On
some farms where the fields are old. or
not favorably situated, the yield is short,
but quality good. The clover crop,
where it has been threshed. is about the
same as the timothy, yielding well on
the new seeding. and in old fields fall
ing quite short. But the seeds of sew
eral va ietieS of weeds came up to the
surface in all the grain threshed, which
is often left in the grain when mar
keted. In fact, the bulk or the grain is
taken right from the thresher and ware
housed and sold at once.
The farmers in this section that are
old-t time residents declare the land in
this county is just as good as it ever was,
for all the crops that hace ever been
raised on the land can be raised again,
sertiOn is verified at this time, and it's
to be hoped the farmers will keep up
the fertility of their soil through the
years to come.
Another season will find many broad
acres sOwn to wheat, as the acreage the
present year of each was only four or
five acres at most, and so little of the
wheat has been brought to market the
grain buyers will not purchase. as they
cannot get enough to ill car for ship
ment, but there is ready market at the
Touring mills close by in all the country
round about this and other communities.
Some of the farmers that have not
grown fax claim that crop of that
product will impOverish the land be-
yOnd all other crops by taking one crop
from it. That is, one crop of fax on ten
acres will give good first crop. but it
will take seven or eight years to bring
back the fertility of the soil for any
crop farmer may wish to grow on that
ten acres of ground.
Will those that have grown fax en-
tighten the readers of the GLOBE on
certainty? The past season very few
farmers around this place sowed fax,
which has yielded very heavy returns.
Ii, as have read, ''ten bushels of seed
per acre is a large YIELD" then the yield
on one farm where four and fraction
over of acres yielded just twice that
amount, must have been an enormous
yield of seed.
If some one that knows all about
growing flax will give others the abso-
lutte facts in the case as to growing any
other crop after fax it would be greatly
appreciated by many readers of the
GLOBE, am quite Sure. Since writing
the above lines l see that the Chicago
InterOcean has news that Southern
Minnesota farmers will have to sell
their stock for the want of hay to feed,
owing to the prolonged drought.
Where is that place? Certainly not
In this southeastern part, where there is
plenty to feed and spare. From the
correspondence Of three newspapers of
this county, that embrace large num-
Der Of towns, no such reports reach us,
nor is there any mention made of any
failure of hay or any feed for animals
on the farm of any breed or kind, for it
is here in abundance.
MRS. MARTHA CRANDALL.