The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-02

Mrs. Thos. Barber, Of Vesta town.
ship, is dangerously i'll.
The cause of new wheat command
ing four cents less than old is owing
to the danger of bin burning, sweat
ing, etc.
Look out for prairie fires from this
time on. The fire will run more
swiftly than ever this year, owing to
the dry grass.
Yesterday was the ideal Minnesota
day. Cool and a good breeze from
the north made things pleasant and
life worth living.
Miss Stella Pierce, who has been
visiting her brother, County Attorney
Pierce, of this city, for a week or
more, returned to her home in st.
Paul yesterday.
The thunder storm of last Monday
night was accompanied by but little
rain. The lightning was unusually
sharp. showing the great amount OF
electricity in the air, but outside OF
the strokes around Morgan, none of
which were fatal, we have been un-
able to hear of any damage done.
Lake Benton News: The hustling
and aggressive town of Redwood Falls
does not often take water but it IS
willing and anxious to do so now. The
REDWOOD GAZETTE says three millers
of that place have started up the river
to Lake Benton to see who has been
approprlating more than his share OF
the liquid output of Lake Benton.
For the benefit of the CARTE we will
say that nature has not been very
prodigal in the shedding of tears In
this neck of the woods of late and
hence we have no water to spare. 1t
is slyly suspected that dame nature,
being somewhat modest, has been so
chagrined at the whc,nping stores
told about discoveries at 4. 'o"0oo-
Falls that her feelings have been to-
deep to allow the shedding of tears.
The Minnesota weather crop bull
letin for the week ending July "a,
says that showery conditions prevailed
in the Northern part of the State on
Wednesday; the central portions on
Thursday and in the southern part on
Friday. The rainfall was everywhere
insufficient to break the drought con-
ditions now existing, which have there
fore become intensified in nearly all
sections of the State and irreparable
injury to the corn and potato crop is
threatened unless the needed rains
soon occur. These crops generally
have so far withstood the dry spell
wonderfully we'll, but now they have
reached critical point where each
day lessons their recuperative powers.
The dry spell has been augmented by
the almost total absence of the heavy
dews generally SO prevalent during
the growing season. The tempera-
ture was higher than usual every day
during the week, except on Friday
and Saturday when it was slightly
cooler. The weather has ripened the
small grain too fast, causing the har-
vest to be earlier than usual; and oats,
barley and wheat are in many places
all ready to cut at thesame time. Hay
ing is not finished in great many
districts and harvest work is being
unusually rushed for this season of
the year. The wheat harvest has be-
gun as far North as Lac qui Parle,
Poke, Stearns and Chisago counties,
and barley is being cut as far North
as Norman county; while oats and the
early sown flax are being harvested
throughout the southern and central
portions of the State. The conditions
of these crops is as before reported
very uneven, being generally good
throughout the Red River Valley and
in many other sections, while there is
much that is very poor, especially on
the uplands and on sandy soils. 1t is
too dry for buckwheat to blossom and
it is generally conceded that the most
of the late sown will be failure.
Pasturage is drying up SO badly that
great deal of stock has to be fed and
the COWS are failing in their yield of
milk. Some farmers will have to cut
corn and other grain for hay. Of the
Vegetables the tomatoes and suuashes