The representative., 1894-08-15
CROPS ARE BURNING UP.

The Agricultural Bureau Makes It's
Regular Weekly Report-Harvest-
ing Is Well Under Way, and
Sad Condition of Affairs Is
Shown to Exist in the Rural Dis
tr1cts-Wheat Will Run From to
20 Bushels to the Acre and Corn
aid Potatoes Are Practically Non
Est.
The report of the local office OF the agr-
cultural bureau shows a condition of crops
which can be relied upon as more than a
piece of future guess work, as harvesting
has already begun
The drouth continues unbroken, but the
excessive heat of last week has been fol-
lowed by cooler weather during Wednes-
day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; and
on Thursday and Friday mornings light
frosts occurred in exposed places without
doing any damage of consequence.
The harvest is well advanced, and in a
number of the Southern counties small
grain has all been cut, and stacking is
well in hand. The yield of wheat as a
rule is better than expected and that which
ripened before the excessive heat of the
large and plump berry, while that which
rlpened last week shrunk and the quality
or the berry is not as good The corn and
potato crop has been injured beyond re
covery and even under favorable conditions
small yield is all that can be expected.
Inc crops in Carleton county consisting
principally of potatoes and small vegetables
nave been almost entirely destroyed by
orouth and grasshoppers, the latter are
now fast disappearing; the damage in 9th
er LOCALITIES to corn by cnnch bugs, how
ever, is increasing Reports regarding the
~ rI11n t1rsn h.
light and in Stearns county it is stated that
the meadows SO dry that the grass
did not sprout after cutting. In Renville
county milk deliveries to cheese factories
nave fallen off one-half owing to the poor
condition of pasturage. Considerable stock
has to be fed and their number is con-
Stantly increa sing
In the Eastern part of Stevens county a
strip of country two miles wide and 12 to
10 miles long was visited by a destructive
hallstorm which destroyed all crops in it's
track. At Hills in Rock county, cloud
burst followed by a destructive hailstorm
shelled wheat in shock and cut down hun
dreds of acres of corn. The following
yields are reported:
Winter wheat-Pine county, 20 to 90 BUSH
els; LeSueur county, 25 bushels; Rice
county, 20 to 30 bushels; Waseca county, 80
to 40 bushels; Winona county, 50 bushels
Houston county, 25 to 80 bushels; Nicollet
county, 23 to Al bushels.
Spring Wheat-Kittson county Is bushels
expected; Becker county, Is bushels; Otter
Tail, to 20 bushels; Traverse, 10 bushels,
but very uneven; Big Stone, bushels;
Douglas, 10 to IS bushels: Todd, s to Y on
timber land, and 4 to bushels on sandy
soil; Chisago, IL bushels; southern portion
of Stearns county, bushels; Sherbourn, 5
to bushels; Meeker, 13 bushels; Wright IL
to Is bushels; one correspondent reported
only bushels from the northern part of
Wright county, where the crop over a small,
area is poor and very uneven; northern
portion of Washington county, 10 bushels;
Hennepin county, to % bushels; will prob
ably average Is bushels Lac qui Parle ga
to 10 bushels; Renville county, II to %; will
probably average 20 bushels; Carver coun-
ty 20 to 80 bushels; Dakota county, 10 to
20; Sibley county, 16 to IS bushels; LeSueur
~ to 25 bushels; Rice county, 15 to 25 BUSH
els; Wahasha, 10 to % bushels; Cottonwood
county, II bushels; Watonwan, % to SO
bushels; Blue Earth, II to 80 bushels; Wa
SEGA county, 25 bushels; northern portion
of Steele, 20 to 30; northern portion of Ohm
sted county, 10 bushels; Rock county, 8
bushels; Mobiles county, Z to 13 bushels
Mower county, IA to 25 bushels; Houston
county, 9 to Il bushels; one farm in Martin
county averaged 81 bushels to the acre and
it will probably grade No. 1 northern, and
in LIE Sueur county one piece of winter
wheat averaged Al bushels to the acre, and
tested 63 pounds to the bushel.
Barley-Clay county, 2S bushels; Otter
Tail county, bushels; Todd county, II to
Is bushels; Washington county, on heavy
land, 45 bushels; western portion of Henne-
pin county, Is bushels; Sibley, 40 bushels
Dakota, 25 to 80 bushels lie Sueur county.
40 bushels; Wabasha county, 16 to As bush
els; will probably average 30 bushels; Blue
Earth, 20 to so bushels; Steele county, 20
to 35 bushels; Dodge county, 80 to 35 bush
els Omsted county, 10 to 80 bushels; Wi
mona, Is to 3S bushels; will probably aver
age % bushels; Rock, 10 bushels; Mobiles
county, to 10 bushels; Faribault county.
35 to so bushels; Mower county, 20 to 30
bushels; Renville county, 80 bushels
Oats-Clay county, 35 bushels; Todd coun-
ty, 10 bushels; Traverse county, 20 bushels:
Chisago county, 25 bushels; Sherbourn, 6
to IA bushels; Meeker, 38 bushels; Wright,
to IS bushels; poorest in northern por-
ton; Hennepin, Is to 40 bushels; Washing
ton, 40 to so bushels; few fields only went
51a bushels; Dakota, 10 to 45 bushels; LIE
Sueur, 40 to so bushels; Cottonwood, 20
bushels; Blue Earth. 25 to so bushels; north
ern portion of Steele county, 80 to 40 bush
els; Dodge county, one piece only, 40 BUSH
els; Olmsted, northern portion 40 to so
bushels; eastern portion of Winona 30
bushels; Rock, 25 bushels; Mobiles, 10 to 1S;
Fartbault, 80 to 60; will probably average
40 bushels; Mower, 40 to 60 bushels; will
probably average so bushels; Houston, 35
bushels; Wabasha, 80 to 40 bushels