St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-08
CROP GOSSIP.
Reports From Dakota Showing
the Condition of the Wheat--
Corn Badly Damaged.

The following letters have been re-
ceived by M. Doran & Co., st. Paul-the
first from crop expert of large expert
ence, who has travelled through both
North and South Dakota, and the sec
ond letter from one of the leading Of
ficials of the Atchison. Topeka u Santa
Fe railroad. who is constantly going
over the road, and is in position to
give facts:
To M. Doran & Co.:
ST. PAUL, Aug. 6.-Tne crop pros
poets for South Dakota, through por-
tons visited by me, are as follows:
Along the James river valley-Ihe
north half of Brown county, all OF Nc
Pherson county, and the greater portion
of Marshall county is completely dried
up and has been for over two weeks.
No crop at all will be harvested.
In the south half of Brown county,
west of the river, and in Edmunds
county the yield will be very light. The
hot blast OF July 10, followed by con-
tinuous hot. dry weather, has shut off
all prospects of the late wheat amount
ing to anything, as there is not one par
ticle of moisture in the ground: the
straw is ripening and the wheat is just
headed. The early wheat was injured
to some extent by the bot blast, and the
yield was further reduced by the quick
ripening weather following.
East of the river the prospects are
very much better: some CT the fields Wis
tied will still yield from fifteen to eigh-
teen bushels per acre. The wheat will
in nearly all cases be shrunken, and a
conservative estimate cannot place the
acreage above six bushels per acre.
Through Sphinx and east half OF Faulk
counties the yield will be light. Much
of the wheat is shrunken and many
fields will not pay to cut. The average
Will not be over six bushels per acre.
Through the east half of Hand county
and Beadle county the condition is very
much better, as a large share of the
wheat was past the milk before dry
weather set in. Considerable damage
was done by the early hot blast, but the
general average will be between 8 and
10 bushels. Harvesting nearly COM
pleted.
Portions of Clark and Day counties
near the Sand hills are very light. The
ground is dried out and the wheat is
ripening before it filled; 10 bu average
expected. Codington county prospects
have very materially lessened the past
ten days. The ground dried out just as
the wheat was in the milk, and the very
hot weather began to ripen it before it
was well filled. Small and shrunken
wheat is the result. Harvesting has
commenced.
South, through Hamlin and BrOOkins
counties, the farmers report their fields
in better condition and look for fair
average crop.
North Dakota-Richland county, with
the exception of the southwest portion,
I1N oil natc lrn For
crop. Wheat is Well-headed out-StandS
well-and there is yet moisture i'll the
ground.
Cass, Trail and Grand Forks counties,
when last seen. had every prospect for
good crops.
Through Walsh county. along the
Park river, the land is light and sandy,
and the grain was thin; other places
through the county the grain looked
well.
The southwest corner of Pembina
county is spotted with light fields, but
the general outlook for the county was
for an average crop or better.
Cavalier county has considerable late
wheat that will probably suffer this hot
weather.
Nelson and Ramsey counties are late
and very dry. Prospects are that they
will not have half crop.
Around Leeds in Benson county, the
grain looked well two weeks ago. At
Minnewaukan the fields were drying up
fast, and prospects were for poor crop.
Through Eddy, Foster, Wells and
Stuttsman counties, north of James
town, the crops were IN gold condition,
stand heavy, healthy looking, but need
ed rain. Wheat was then in the bloom.
South of Jamestown cOnSidera bile
damage was done by hail. Late wheat
was suffering from drouth. Through
La Moure county the crops were look
ing fairly well, but must be drying up
fast at present, as the ground was dry
then and they have had no rain since.
The southwest quarter of Dickey
county is all dried out, the balance of
the county was light, and prospective
yield must be diminishing rapidly. The
south half of Sargent county is about
ruined. Very few fields will pay to