The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-17
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causing considerable anxiety to the
farmers. About half of it, as it stands
is ripe, and the other half, later
growth, very green. Thus it cannot
be harvested and saved now, and if
much time is taken to do so, the ripe
oats will she'll ON the fields.
The LIE Sueur News says the potato
crop in that vicinity is a good one.
Winnebago City Press News: Last
Monday Hugh Boiler bought of his
brother, S. Boler an improved 80 acre
farm in Nashville. The price paid
was 50, 500, or nearly $44 per acre.
This purchase gives Mr.. Hugh Boiler
a square farm of $40 acres. Twelve
years ago he bought an so, part of his
farm, for $780, 1t is just as good
land as the so for which he has now
paid So, 500. Mr.. Boiler says he can
handle and pay for the high priced so
as easy, if not easier, than he did the
one he purchased twelve years ago.
The Martin County Independent is
a little inclined to doubt the stories of
= the big grain yields, and says sit is
at this season of the year that those
who sowed one hundred acres of wheat
in the spring and are now threshing
claim only sixty or seventy-fve in or
der to make claims for big yields.
There is no dispute but that we have
got big crop, but the phenomenal
yields are most always to be discredit-
ed and they are stated by some foolish
farmers and are repeated by some
foolish newspaper and used by the
grain buyers to depress prices
Redwood Gazette Peter Lloyd, ex-
county treasurer, came up from Man
kato early last week, and finished the
threshing on his farm on Tuesday
evening Mr.. Lloyd stated on We'd
nesday that he would probably dispose
of his farm this fall, and thus close
his interests in Redwood county.
LIE Sueur News: R. g. Ammons
threshed the first spring wheat in this
vicinity. The yield was exactly fif-
teen bushels per acre, testing 5S1a
pounds from the machine. Last year
the same land yielded So bushels per
acre of very inferior quality of
wheat.
Albert Lea Standard: Reports from
the threshers are beginning to come in.
Wheat is the best crop in over 20
years. or since that of 1877. 1t yields
from Is to 80 bushels per acre, the
average being probably between 10 and
20. The quality, too, is high grade.
Oats is lighter crop, but fairly good.
Flax the same. Corn is rapidly i'm
proving and promises to be the best
the country has known.
Vernon Center News The bridge
builders finished work on the new iron
bridge, put in for the Omaha road
across the Blue Earth river at this
place this morning. 1t is mangifi-
cent piece of work and will stand for
ages The painters are now at work
on it. AS soon as the grade is rip
raped, the track will be ready for the
trains
Mapleton Enterprise; While thresh-
ing at the Meyers Bros. place south of
town, on Monday, Amiel Minkel' S
threshing crew found themselves in
the midst of hot fire. The machine
had been placed in readiness to COM
mence operations when fire was dis
covered in one of the stacks. By good
work the flames were eXtinguished
with loss of forty or fifty bushels of
oats.
Mapleton Enterprise Jerry Griggs
marketed February hogs this week
that weighed $50 lbs. apiece, netting
him so. 30 per hog. He says they
were the cheapest hogs he ever raised,
as they run in timber pasture with
plenty of grass and water He filled a
self feeder once week, which, by the
way, is new style of feeding hogs.
The st. Peter Herald in speaking of
the orchard and horticultural work of
Andrew Wilfert, of LIE Sueur county,
says: "Mr Wilfert has about 800 trees
in his orchard, $50 of which are APP
pie trees. Of these 100 are loaded al
most to the ground with Duchess,
Wealthy and Ben Davis variety, from
which he expects to gather about 300
bushels. The orchard contains large
number of plum and prune trees, and
few pear and peach trees These lat
ter blossomed for the first time this
spring, and next year Mr.. Wilfert ex-
poets them to bear.
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