St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-31
THERE is BUT LITTLE SMUT,
AND WHAT THERE IS WILL
BLOW OUT IN THE THRESH-
ING.
THE YIELD is VERY LARGE
In Many Places Wheat VIII Run
as High as Thirty Bushels
to the Acre.

HALLOCK, Mimi, July 30.-Pros-
poets for crops were never more ia
vorable for Kittson county than this
year, and it will have no trouble in
keeping up it's record as the banner
producing county of the Red river
valley. Estimates of aggregate
yield for the county run from twen-
ty-fve to thirty bushels per acre.
Haying is in progress and big
cut is being made. The barley har-
vest is on and will be general by
the latter part of the week. That
of wheat will be in full blast in an
other ten days. Barley is exception
ally heavy, oats only fair. A large
acreage of potatoes and flax prom
ises heavy returns. Considerable
corn and roots are planted. Of the
above, there will be many carload
lots shipped.
Of late, reports of smut in wheat
have been quite general, but only
few days since your correspon-
dent made trip through good
part of the county and had a
chance to interview some of the
leading farmers, who claim that the
disease is prevalent only in few
fields, and where it does exist it is
Of the variety known as "blind
smut which is almost harmless
and will all blow out in the thresh-
ing. G. J. McCollom, of the firm Of
Suffel, Lundgren & Co., of this city,
and eX-president of the Duluth and
Superior board of trade, and other
men of experience made a tour
of inspection the other day, and
they, too, claim that while the dis
ease exists in some fields, it is not
as bad as reported, and Kittson will
this year harvest the heaviest crop
in her history. Hon. w. F. Kelso,
of the big Kelso farm, says his crop
will be the largest since the farm
has been operated (some fifteen
years., and will average close to
thirty bushels. He can find no smut
in his fields. There is no excess of
farm laborers, and there will doubt
less be cry for help when the wheat
harvest begins.
Special to the Globe.
WILLMAR, Mimi, July 30.-The
crops in this vicinity will run far
over all estimates. Barley threshed
yesterday gave eighty bushels to the
acre and wheat eight miles south Of
here thirty bushels to the acre.
| Special to the Globe.
LITTLE FALLS, Mimi, July 3d.
| Harvest has begun in real earnest in
Morrison county, and the crops are eX-
| ceeding all expectations. In the town
| of Preiz, Green Prairie, Buchanan
| town, Agram, Pike Creek Culdum,
| Belle Prairie, Belleview and Elmdale
| the wheat is running from % to 45
| bushels, oats 60 to so bushels and in
| several places as high as 100 bushels,
| other grain running equally as well.
| FULDA, Mimi, July 3O.-Reports
come in from the Pfiingston settlement,
| eight miles southwest of here, that hail
destroyed all the grain in a tract one
and a half miles wide by six miles
| long. North of here there was a gentle
rain; here it only sprinkled. Harvest
is well under way; next week will close
it up. Some have most of their stack
| ing done.
ARMOUR, S. D., July 3O.-Small
grain now being harvested in this
county is yielding on an average about
as follows: Wheat. IS bushels per
acre; oats, 80; barley, 80. Corn was
practically insured by the heavy, soak
ing rain of last night.
| PARKSTON, S. D., July 30.-The har-
vesting of small grain is about fin
ished, and by the end of this week a
| good share of it will be in the stack
Some threshing has been done, and
| from reports gathered the average
yield of wheat is put at from Is to Is
| bushels to the acre, while that of oats
is put at from 35 to 40. Barley and
rye are also making a good showing.