The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-05-13
Cber$tate Day by Day.
FROST STOPS FARM WORK.
Wheat Seeding Did Not Advance Much
During the Past Week.

Wheat Seeding Did Not Advance Much
During the Past Week.
The latest bulletin of the North Da-
kota section of the climate and crop
service says:
"The weather during the past week
was unusually cold in all sections, the
thermometer ranging from 16 to 20
degrees on two or three mornings. In
most places the ground froze SO deep
that all work had to be suspended,
and but little was done from Tuesday
to Friday, while in some places moth
ing at all was done. But very little
vegetation was sufficiently advanced
to be harmed, and aside from the de-
lay it is not thought that any material
damage resulted.
Wheat seeding has not advanced
much during the past week, although
in some few sections considerable
progress was made. In the eastern
and southern sections about all the
wheat has been sown, and some oats,
barley and fax. Early sown wheat
that was up was, as a rule, frozen
down to the ground.
Flowing for flax and corn is begin
ming to be general, and if good wealth
er prevails this week most of the small
grain except flax will be in the ground.
Information from another source
says:
Cloudy and frosty weather has pre-
vailed during all of the past week, and
vegetation has made little progress
In many cases there has rather been
loss, as tree buds have been so frost
ed that the leaves will not start from
them and foliage will have to await
the new growth. The frosts have been
unusually severe and repeated for this
season of the year, as there have been
several nights on which ice half an
inch thick was formed.
This condition has delayed farm
work in many places, as where the
ground was wet. as it was in many
places, from the showers, it froZe too
hard to permit of seeding. In the ma
jority of cases, however, work, has
gone on in some form every day. The
frost has hardly affected the stubble
land and the work of blowing this has
gone forward with little interruption,
and there has been good deal Of
seeding done in the afternoons. There
is little wheat seeding that remains I'M
done, except in the isolated fields,
which are unusually wet. Already a
considerable acreage of land has been
sown with oats, and with favorable
weather there will be no lack of early
feed for stock. 1t is still too early for
barley, but the indications are that the
acreage of this crop will be large.
Conditions with reference to the
flax crop remain unchanged, with the
exception that the slight delay caused
by the unfavorable weather of the past
week may lead to slight increase in
this crop. The difference from this
cause, however, will be slight. Corn
seems to be growing in favor, one
cause for this being the fact that many
farmers are paying more attention to
stock, and corn, either as grain or as
coarse fodder, is one of the best feeds
that we can raise. The farmers are
feeling we'll satisfied with the spring
thus FAR, as, while the frosts have de-
layed their work somewhat, they are
too early to materially injure the grain
already sown Early gardens have
suffered some, but there is still plenty
Of time to replant.