The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-20
DAKOTA'S WHEAT CROP.
1T IS SAID TO BE THIRTY MILLION
BUSHELS SHORT.

IT is SAID TO BE THIRTY MILLION
BUSHELS SHORT.
CHICAGO. July 16.-A SPECIAL TO the
inter. Ocean from Grafton. Dakota,
says: The wheat crop of Dakota is 30
OOO, 900 bushels short. The figures sre
large, but not in the least exaggerated.
The total production for the territory
cannot, under the best possible cOndi-
lions from now until harvest, which
| will begin in the north BY the 26th.
exceed 20, 200, 0OO bushels, and to put
it that high is a liberal est.
mate. The greatest detriment to
a successful crop this year has been
the exceedingly dry season, and only
along the streams will there be any
crops at all. In the spring the most
terrific winds ragged in this entire terri
tory, and for weeks after the crop was
sown the air was HlIed with the flying
particles of soil that should have been
furnishing nutriment to the seed that
| was lying exposed and burning on the
SURFACE. Hundreds of acres were sown
for the second tlme, and it would have
teen a very good thing tor the country
IL the entire crop had been put Up again
when the winds were stilled. The
grain was for the greater part injured
SO that no amount Of nursing would
bring it back, and it isaltogether likely
| that outside of the valley OF the Red
| river all the grain will not oil 500 cars.
The best crops, and In fact the
only fair yield, Will be in the
counties of Psmbina, Walsh. Grand
Forks. q small portion OF Trail, the
centre of Cass and Northwestern Rich
land. Elsewhere the ground is as bare
and almost as brown as though a
prairie fire had crossed 1t. In Nelson
county, fam9usly prolific. wheat will
not yield as mach grain as was seeded.
Ramsey is bare, except In the iWme-
diate vicinity of DEVILS Lake, and 10
the famous Turtle Mountain region,
| the rich soil of which has hitherto been
regarded as drought proof. the earth
succumbed, and There viii DO but little
| wheat for export iD that section Along
the msin line of the Northern Pacific,
In the once famous boaapz8 farm dis.
trict. the elevators are closing up, and
the country tributary to Bismarck
is IS pd}FSH 10 q oAho hhis Auo
Jim River Valley will barely feed
its people, and, In short, nowhere Up
Dakota will there be any wheat for OK:
mort s.ve along the main line of the
Manitoba Road, from a point so miles
north of Fargo, the boundary. The
| CRY of famine that was raised last win
ter in the western part of Walsh
county yill find its echo all over the
Territory the coniEg winter.
Aside from this imPoyefishing ~
the people by the failure Of the wheat
there Is another danger which will be
felt almost as sessrsly, and that ID the
want of fodder for the stock.
The oat crop Is bad and the meadows
away FROM the river bottoms are aa
psrched as the praifis. Not alone will
this territory be the sufferer, put y tip
through Montana reveals the same
state of affairs. Tho range cattle will
not lind enough 10 live on lntil cold
weather, aud . prominent railroad Of
fetal told a correspondent that all the
extra cars Of the Northern Feeble and
Mautana Roads had been ordered to
Montana to pull out the steers, as soon
AZ the lack of feed necessitated a reduc-
ton In numbers Of the range stock.