The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-07-05
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DROUGHTS EFFECT ON CROPS.
Only 5O,OOO,OOO Bushels Will be Harvested
in the Dakotas and Minnesota Against
l5O.OOOO0O Bushels Other Years.
A Graphic and Expert Account of the Results in
the states most Affected and in the Northern
Portion of the State of Wisconsn--Ex
Senator Washburn Submits Some
Facts That He Has Cleaned.



the Northwest have been compiled to show the exact situation
the crops in the Northwest.
reality difference between yield OF four
bushels and total failure but herein lies the great
reports received Country correspondents do not
failure long there is grain in sight but
bushels would harvest even though machinery
would take the heads from five to eghtnch
stalks So that unless there prospect of more OF yield than
this cased total loss There IS grea
that is giving hope to many localities
With very exceptions Northern Minnesota nearly all of
North Dakota, large portion of South Dakota and Manitoba Will
produce but little wheat.
With the present condition conditions favorable
harvested estimate 2O0O0OOO bushels
for South Dakota Minnesota and 100000 for favor
localities North Dakota aggregate of 5OOOO bushels
against mot 16SO0OOO has been
generally conceded)
Ex-senator Wasburn just through the Dakoas
and Minnesota there will not be 50oo0o bushels OF
wheat raised in the three states.
onehaf wheat
yield in prospect.
Heretofore the Northwestern states produced
The prospects that 250000o0 bushels
will shipped into the Northeast before another
There will be 100000 bushels raised in nneso
ia and the Dakotas.
Flax is reported in various conditions of growth and with good
grain would general failure though the
much of it is beyond recovery if rain comes
Minnesota and South Dakota though in
need is standing the drouh fairly we'll Still the critical
point approaching.
The hot weather of the past week has FASTENED the pcnng
wheat which makes much of total loss In Mnneso
and North Dakota especially in the northern part of the former
wheat from six to inches high yet great portion of it
1t
promise.
part Minnesota along the Wnona & ST. Pet
division of the Northwestern and extending west into South Da
koa southwesterly direction, wheat from sixteen
inches high Of good color and thin stand In this section
there promise of bushels under favorable conditions
Yet rain here within week The hot days have lad
noticeable effect here, the present time is good grain
the in the Northwest Flax here looking well though
little sported and maturing too fast
West the Minnesota the of South Dakota
and south of Aberdeen there is present loss Of about $ r. cent
tho
will grain harvested this year From Aberdeen north
grain gradually grows until reaches point where the
loss total What the condition will be in another week is prob
atcal With rains and future favorable conditions the forego
ing estimates realized. The yield will be better and
great deal which would total failure of every
where except southern Minnesota and the southern
ton of South Dakota.
In Minnesota the central counties of the line
elevator representative yesterday this estimate the loss
wheat Pope county IS cent Grant IS Stevens 4o Swift IS
Traverse 25 Wlkn 400 Big Stone, Is; Stearns 2 These nine
show according
From Fergus Falls north the the loss is
per wheat, with no estimate flax.
West Red the North Dakota report gives the
damage wheat with the exception of small the
Missouri slope the vicinity of Bmar and Washburn but holds
out some hope for flax
The crop today in St Crox county, Wis
consn has been duplicated the past two decades There
will be this the total crop failure that has
the is the situation today than
during the chnch bug raids of few The started
out with the brightest crop prospects, but the continued drouh
the Small heading
srveedup kernels stems scarcely than two three ia
ground There enough admit of the
stuff being harvested by machines there anything the
Corn and There
hay and will be. Pastures look though they had been
prairie Farmers turning their stock in
grain cutting curing the dimnuc stalks
substitute Many farmers shipping their cattle
to be fed Unfortunately the worst of all the situation
be conferred New Richmond which suffered such
terrible calamity of June, 1899 Business here
rather blue and discouraged they determined the
thing through and hopeful of better things in the future