Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02

Barton-Good supply of rain; all crops
are doing we'll; the only complaint is OF
smut; some fields are bad.
RAMSEY.
JackSOn-CrOpS are looking we'll: the
hail of the 26th did no damage: the corn
is light.
Benzion-There was a frost on the 2lst
but SO light it did no damage; grain is rip.
enlng very slowly; harvest will commence
III a week or two: haying in progress and a
poor crop.
Crary-Past week continues wet with
considerable complaint of smut which is
liable to reduce the average grade to No. 2
northern. We are having too much rain,
both for grain and haying. On the 26th a
heavy hail and wind storm passed over
here, doing the most damage north, taking
IN a strip about two and one-half miles
wide by fifteen long and destroying the
crops on 5000 acres.
Seymour-Weather warm; barley cut;
wheat cutting commenced.
Hankinson-Past week favorable; cut
pears in some places n more in oats than
in wheat but not to any extent. Where
the seed was treated to blue stone (sul-
phate OF copper) no smut appears.
SARGENT.
MilnOr-All crops are doing we'll; barley
has been cut with a good yield; wheat har-
vest will commence this week and IS ex-
pected to yield we'll; no smut, but in some
localities there is some rust but it cot on
so late that it will do 10 damage.
Forman-Weather has been fine for rip
enlng grain that has not dried up; on the
hea ~ land wheat harvest has begun: rye
and barley is in the shock; corn doing we'll:
the dry weather has reduced the potato
crop One-haIf.
Geneseo-Harvesting commenced: barley
a good crop; oats good; wheat not so thick
on the ground as believed.
Montpelier-The past week has been
very favorable for all kinds OF grain;
wheat promises at present from Is to so
bushels to the acre; plenty of moisture at
present to carry the grain through all
right.
Hope-Weatber has been favorable,
helping the grain to recover somewhat
from the effects of the hot winds and dry
weather; oats are only a fair crop, very
smutty, lots OF blasted heads and some
rust; wheat is quite smutty on new ground
and summer fallow; it is good generally,
but on old ground only fair.
Colgate-Barley harvest nearly over:
oats are going to be a light crop; farmers
as a rule complain OF the great amount of
smut in the wheat; millet will be a good
crop.
Gladstone-Iwo heavy rains during the
week accompanied by hail, doing consider
able damage in some places, but not gen.
eral; ripe oats damaged from 5 to 10
bushels per acre and other grain in pro-
portion; some early wheat cat for hay;
corn and flax looking fine; lots of hay
damaged by rain while in the bunch.
Belfeld-The weather has been fine
with plenty Of rain; crops look we'll; there
Will be a big crop OF potatoes.
TRAILL.
Clifford-Grain ripening SLOWLY: wheat
filling nicely-great deal of smut; too
much rain for small grain; too wet and
cold for corn.
Hillsboro-Weather the past week has
been very good for wheat, warm and
rainy; it, is claimed there is considerable
smut in the wheat; unfavorable weather
for haying.
Minto-The weather the past week has
been favorable and all crops are maturing
rapidly, and promise well.
WILLIAMS.
Williston-Past week very favorable for
oA1 NACpo, ICY lldl HcSGcus udyllS utdrlY
completed; corn doing we'll; other grain
never looked better; potatoes will yield a
big crop.
The Cattle Market.
A we'll known Chicago commission
firm handling a large number of western
range cattle, in writing to their custo-
mers on the range cattle situation says
The season of 1895 has fairly opened
and 80 far has been most satisfactory.
The arrivals last week, numbering about
10000 head, have been cattle in very
good flesh and condition, and have met
with an active demand from the dressed
beef buyers at prices higher than any
season since 1891. As yet these rangers
are not quite hard or firm enough in
flesh to go for shipment east or for ex.
port on the hoof, but three or four weeks
are going to make an immense differ.
ence, and no doubt many good western
beeves will find their way east and
across the water this fall. The excellent
condition of grass in Montana, Dakota
and Wyoming is shown every day in the
fine beeves coming from those states
Those from the Northern Pacific country
are rather the harder and frmer, the
cattle from Wyoming and South Dakots
showing as yet the effect of coming of
grass having much ate'moisture. Need.
less to say the native cattle now being
marketed are suffering sharp conpe
tition from the westerns and have to bt
very good indeed to escape their effect
Good range cattle ripe enough to shir
should be sent right along, while on thu
other hand, those cattle which are as ye
soft and immature can be very proftably
held a while, considering the condition
of both the range and the market.