Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-08-08
FROM The GRAIN FIELDS.
The Weekly Crop Report Of
Northern Pacific Agents
Given Below.
No County Free from Smut
Trouble-Bad in Many, Worse
in Other Places.
Gossip About Grain.-Plenty OF
Good Weather Reported
Everywhere.

Good Weather Reported
Everywhere.
The weekly Northern Pacific crop
\report received today shows favorable
weather last week all over the division.
Harvesting began the last of the week, a
few fields of rye and barley being cut in
each county and a few early ripenea
wheat fields. Wheat cutting will be
general this week. Rains have fallen at
most points.
Minnewaukan: A few fields of wheat
will be cut this week. Crop in splendid
shape. Heavy rain last night will do
immense amount Of good.
New Rockford: Few fields wheat very
smutty. Two heavy rains during week.
No hot weather damage.
Leeds: Weather favorable. Some bar
ley and rye being cut. with promise for
big yield.
Cooperstown: Wheat cutting will be-
gin in about week. Some pieces dam
aged by heat.
Sanborn: Crop still all right. Consid-
erable wheat cut last week.
Lisbon: Wheat harvest begun. Yield
will be II to 20 bushels. Potatoes good
crop. Corn doing we'll.
Sheldon: Sixty per cent wheat cut last
week. Weather. very favorable. Yield
as good Hs expected.
Cakes: Harvest we'll under way. Quail
ity wheat good. Yield better than ex.
pected-from IL to Is bushels.
Edgeley: Late sown fax badly dam
aged by dry weather. early sown will go
twelve to fifteen bushels. Ten to twelve
bushels per acre IS the most expected Of
wheat
LaMoure: Last week was dry and hot
injuring late grain somewhat. Average
wheat yield not over ten bushels, fax lost
ground on account of hot weather. No
rain today.
Darlington: Heavy rains Sunday and
last night, barley and rye is now being
cut, and it the weather permits wheat
cutting will be under way the last OF
this week.
Melville: heavy rains Sunday will
delay ripeuiug. Barley is about all cut;
Dawson: Weather for the psst week
favorable.
Bismarck: Same report.
Buffalo: Harvesting will be general
by Wednesday. Heavy rams last night.
i Valley City: Some thresh;ng done but
not enough to make estimate as to yield.
Casseiton: Cutting will be general
Tuesday Weather for the past week
favorable.
SMUT REPORT.
The North Dakota crop service bulle-
tin for the week ending Aug. 5, has re-
ports OF great deal of smut, although
Agent Bronson says it is not believed
the wheat crop is materially injured by
smut and rust, as reports of such dam
age are falling off The reports on smut
by counties, however, are as follows:
Barnes: Wheat with drying out and
smut will be damaged in some places.
Benson: Wheat is immense, but far
mers are just finding out that about one
third is smut.
Burleigh No smut reported.
Dickey: Considerable smut IN wheat
and oats.
Eddy: There is lots of smut in wheat,
oats, barley and rye.
Grand Forks: Some smut at Inkster;
at Niagara smut being found nearly
everywhere, but only in wheat to any
extent.
Gallitan: The crop conditions have
been very favorable, but there are more
black heads IN wheat and oats than I
ever saw before. Some call it smut; a
good many claim that q good deal OF
early sown rye is blighted and not
worth cntting, but all that I have exam
ined is filing nicely and never saw
fuller or plnmper kernels in my life.
McHenry: Considerable smut in wheat
and oats.
Nelson: Early sown grain has lots Of
smut. Reports in two places.
Pembina: Prospects for big yield are
good we're it not for sm ut.
Walsh: From Pisek reporter-Smut
damaging grain fully 20 per cent.
Towner: There is good deal OF smut
in wheat and oats. Some estimate that
some fields OF wheat will yield one-fonrth
smut, some fields are certainly very bad.
Corn is struggling along but does not
promise very we'll. Potatoes are lm-
mense.
There is no smut reported from Cass,
Ramsey and Sergeant counties whore
{ there is large grain area, but there is
undoubtedly the same general condition
TO be found there and later reports will
show it. The damage by smut ls gen.
eral throughout the state. and the rank