The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-07-04
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two to three weeks
Lisbon. N. D., July Climatic
conditions still continue favorable fol
all crops, except corn, which is mol
growing very well, the weather being
too cool. Flax and millet seeding,
which has been continued to the end
of June, lis virtually finished, although
a little more millet will be sown in
scattered localities.
Eary sown wheat on land plowed
last autumn is very strong and
healthy, and some is heading. Wheat
on land plowed late in the spring is
much inferior and thinner.
The month just passed was the cold
est in 20 years, the mean temperature
being only 5S.2 degrees. The highest
temperature recorded was 50 degrees,
and the lowest so degrees. There was
no damaging frost nor severe storms
during the month. The rainfall was
3. 81 inches, which is trihe above the
average of many years. Rain fell on
16 days. Prospects are decidedly good.
Redfeld, S. D., July Crop con-
ditions in Sphinx and adjacent counties
continue very favorable and prospects
for fine yield of wheat and other
small grains were never better. The
continued cool weather and frequent
rains have prompted a sturdy growth,
and wheat is so we'll rooted that it
can better withstand a drouth, should
one occur in July. The rainfall this
season has been somewhat above the
average, and the weather has been
remarkable, in that it has continued
cool and cloudy for several days after
the general rains. This has prevented
scalding and rusts. Prospects as to
corn are not quite so favorable as last
year. Effects of the recent frosts may
be seen in many fields, and in a few
the crop is entirely killed. While a
large portion of the corn has not been
materially damaged, the general effect
of the frost will be TO somewhat re-
duce the average yield per acre.
Stewsrtville, Mimi, July THE
weather the past weak has been favor
able to small grain, and the crop pros
poets were never better.
The only trouble is that oats and
barley are 80 heavy that much of it
will probably lodge before it is ripe.
On account of the rains and cool
weather corL is about two weeks be-
hind. Barley and oats are heading
out The hay crop will be very heavy.
Granite Falls, Mimi, July 1.-The
past week has been favorable to the
wheat crop, and corn as we'll, except
that the weather has been cool. The
refreshing rain of the middle of the
week cheered. farmers, whose crops
were In need of moisture-some of
them badly. Complaint is general
that the grain is thin upon the
ground, the cause thought to be the
high wind of early spring, when the
groundw as very dry. No one predicts
large yield, but there will be fair
crop, if nothing serious intervenes It
is dry for potatoes, and that crop will
be small in this section, as was the
yield will be better than that of last
year, and If the present price is main
tanned it will help out farmers who
will have scarcity of wheat. Oats
promises fair yield, as does hay.
Jamestown N. D., July Crops
in this valley are doing we'll. The
late seeding of fax came up quick and
looks unusually fine. All early seeding
on land we'll farmed promises a great
crop. On weedy land the grain does
not look very well, but taking the
growing grain as whole, an average
crop may be expected. But this hardly
applies to corn. The season has been
too cold and wet, and the late frosts
too severe for corn. The acreage of
corn is much less that was planned by
the farmers in the early spring, and
the total yield this year will be much
less than last year.
Hay will be very plentiful and will
more than make up for the shortage
in corn and fodder. Garden truck has
had rapid growth. New home grown
potatoes will soon be in the market.
Peas are ripening, and all vegetables
are doing fine.