St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-09
TOLD OF THE HARVEST.
Big Crops Along the Milwaukee
R0ad-Reporfs of Threshers.

Gen. Supt. W. G. Collins and Vice
President Ripley, of the Milwaukee
road returned yesterday from a tour
of inspection of the territory through
which the line runs, and both of them
speak with delight of the harvest. In
the whole country tributary to the Mil
waukee line there has not been one
locality which has suffered severely,
although there are some small spots
where loss has been incurred. Said
Supt. Collins, in summarizing the sit
uat.on yesterday:
THE harvest along the Iowa and Da-
kota lines is about finished, and stack
ing is pretty we'll along. The yield of
wheat, oats and barley is good; GER
tainly better than an average crop.
The corn is looking well. Practically
the same condition prevails on the,
Sioux City & Dakota division. The
crops along the west end of the South
ern Minnesota division are generally
in excellent shape, although harvest is
not so far advanced as in some of the
other localities named. Along the
Hastings q Dakota division the crops
are excellent. The wheat yield there
will average, 1 think, about twenty
bushels. The yield of barley and oats
is very good. The crop on this division
There is a great crop on the Fargo
Southern, with wheat, bariey, oats and
rye turning out handsomely, and corn
looking very well.
altogether the conditions are eX-
ceedingly satisfactory so far as our ter
ritory is concerned. In the majority
of instances the threshing, SO far as my
information goes, has shown results
materially greater than had been pre-
dicted. 1 would not care to try to give
an average for the wheat yield in our
immense territory, but l think it is
safe to say the crops are somewhat bet
ter than they were in 1891
Special to the Globe.
AITKIN, Aug. 8.-The harvest in
Aitkin county promises to be the great
est ever cut. Farmers generally will
begin harvesting next week. Every
kind of grain is equally good, the
straw tall. and the heads long and
heavy. But little wheat is raised in
the county, the farmers wisely raising
enough for bread, and depending on
oats, corn, potatoes and live stock
for their revenue. Corn is looking
be immense. Haying is much later than
usual this year, and the cut will not
be as large as usual, owing to damage
done by the fires last summer, but the
grass being very tall and heavy. Al
together, our farmers are in good
spirits, and a better harvest they
could not ask for.
Special tol the Globe.
Mikelson harvested and threshed 400
bushels of barley last week. which was
raised from twelve bushels of seed.
Special tol the Globe
MARSHALL, Mimi, Aug. S.-M. B.
Drew has threshed his crop of wheat
near Marshall, getting thirty-two and
a half bushels per acre of No. 1.
Special to the Globe.
all the grain in this vicinity is now in
stacks, and in many places threshing
mas commenced. In Goodhue county
the barley crop is the largest in the
history OF the county. The yield prob
ably, averages forty bushels or more
to the acre. It is somewhat discoI-
ored, however. A fair yield is obtained
even where hail was supposed to have
county the yield of barley per acre
will be from forty to fifty-five bushels.
Al other crops are proportionately
large Corn promises, well. but in
some localities the ch:nch bug is doing
considerable mischief.
AMBOY; Mimi, Aug S.-Threshing is
Well under way and quite a number of
reports OF yields, have been sent in;
twenty-five bushels per acre for wheat
is the lowest, and thiry-six the largest
so far Oats are yielding from fifty
to seventy-five bushels.
FAIRMONT, Mimi, Aug. S.-Report
from one wheat field, twenty-four
bushels to the acre, machine measure,
thirty by weight.
AITKIN, Mimi, Aug. s.-Aitkin
county farmers will begin harvesting
next week and reap the greatest and
best crop in the county's history Oats,
of sight" the straw being taller and
heavier, and the heads longer and bet
ter filled, than ever known before.
wheat is not less than twenty-five
bushels per acre. Some estimate the
average at twenty-seven to twenty
eight bushels for wheat, and oats not
less than fifty bushels; barley, seventy
bushels.
LIE SUEUR, Mimi, Aug. S-H. Wass-
man had thirty and a quarter bushels
acres. In Cleveland township, Corlel
Hill had thirty bushels per acre OF
spring wheat, thirty-four bushels win
ter wheat, and fifty-nine bushels OF
oats
ELK POINT, S. D., Aug. ST. B
Mcintyre has just finished threshing
his wheat. The yield averaged thirty
five bushels per acre. Part of the field
went fifty bushels per acre.
WORTHWHILE. S. D.. Aug. S.-Har-
vesting is completed in this locality
The wheat is a good quality and will
yield from eight TO fifteen bushels per
Acre, and farmers are making prepare