St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-24
THE ZENITH CITY SEES EVEN
MORE WHEAT NOW THAN
IN 1891.
GREAT REPORTS FROM PEMBINA
Forbes, of the Consolidated EIe-
vatOr Company, Talks of the
Crop.
States Will Yield at Least
135,OOO,OOO Bushels.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, July %. = De-
spite the adverse statements of those
who fear that a too glowing de-
scription of the present Northwest
ern crop prospects will tend to dep
ricate prices, the fact remains that
never before in the history Of Min
neSota and the Dakotas have such
prospects been SO magnificent as
they are today. From certain Sec
tions of the country, it is true, there
come reports of smut, lodged grain
and abnormally small yields, but
when compared with the crop re-
ports from the entire area they are
but a drop in the bucket.
Reliable information from all por-
tions Of the Northwest have con-
vinced the millers, the elevator men
and the grain commission men here
that crop exceeding in volume even
that of 1891, the banner year in the
history Of the country. may be ex-
pected, unless something now unfor-
seen should infiict damage upon the
grain, and that something must
come at once to do any damage, for
in a few short days now the har-.
vest will be we'll under way.
In response to urgent demands
for help from all over the North
west, laborers are leaving Duluth by
the score daily, and word now comes
that there are more than enough
men in the fields to do all the work,
tremendous as the crop will be. The
railroads are already increasing
their shipping facilities and getting
everything in readiness for moving
the big harvest. Some estimates
made by Duluth men place the yield
of wheat at not less than 14O, 600, 600
bushels for Minnesota and the two
Dakotas. In some quarters there is
considerable doubt as to what the
QUALITY OF THE YIELD
will be, for reports indicate that
straw is unusually heavy, but a
period Of warm weather will remedy
all this and allow the heads to fill
out, and as to quality every whit
as good as that of last years crop.
The persistent efforts of those who
are attempting to disparage the
present crop prospects, although
productive of some uneasiness and
doubt among shippers and handlers
Of grain in Eastern circles, are not
materially injuring business nearer
home. Some men, for instance, in
Southern Minnesota and in North
western Dakota have carefully gath
cred few heads of smutty wheat
and mailed them to Chicago, repre-
senting them to be fair samples of
what may be expected in the crop
line in their localities. But in nearly
every case these representation
have been found upon investigation,
to be entirely false. The one or two
exceptions are to be found in the
regions lying about St. Thomas and
Larimore, n. D., where smut has
really made its appearance. And to
such an extent that 1t bids fair to
destroy at least one-third-possibly
one-half-of the entire crop there
abouts.
From the country north of Casselton,
n. D., also, and from various portions
of Central Minnesota and Central and
Southern Dakota come complaints that
the yield of wheat is not going to be
more than from six to nine bushels per
acre, but in considering this it must be
borne in mind that these sections of
the country last year produced next to
nothing, and that the climatic condi-
tions which would be favorable to
large yield in them would be positively
disastrous to the great wheat belt.
about them They are sandy regions
which can stand amounts of rain that
would fairly flood the Red river valley
and the southern part of the state -
Private letters from Fosston and
Crookston and also from Pembina are
all aglow with the
MAGNIFICENT PROSPECTS