The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1903-09-04
THE THREE WHEAT STATES
WILL HARVEST AN AVER
AGE YIELD.
RED RIVER VALLEY ALL RIGHT
NORTH DAKOTA REPORTS GROW
MORE AND MORE oP-
TIMIsTic.


report is that the damage and short
yield prophet has disappeared in the
long grass, along with those that have
been insisting that the three states
can expect but Is per cent of last
years crop. The report confirms ev-
cry favorable prediction of the past
ten days, and shows that the general
average of the crop in Minnesota and
the Dakotas will be up to the stand.
ard of year ago. ;.3
The Red river valley is generally
regarded as the great wheat region of
the Northwestern wheat-producing
states. It grows more and better,
wheat than any, other section. Dam:
age rumors have lowered over the val
ley like clouds all summer long, but
this is what the report says of con-
ditions there:
Harvesting in the Red river valley
is practically finished. Che yield of
wheat will be about equal to that OF
last year, but the quality of the crop
will be considerably better. A farmer
at Hitterdahl has threshed a field that
averaged Is bushels. Fertile (Minn.)
reports that wheat will run as high
as 20 bushels an acre. Pemb;na IN.
d. reports that prospects are good for
fair yield of all the various cereals.
Elevator men at, Cashel IN. d. report
that they will ship 10000 bushels more
wheat this year than a year ago.
Grafton, IN. d. expects fair yield.
Barley in the vicinity of Red Lake
Falls will run Is bushels an>acre". s
Gives Consensus of Opinion.
The Northern Pacific report is pee
culiarly complied. Each agent IN
each state makes a personal investi-
cation and sends in an individual crop
report. Fhe final report, as issued by
Vice President Hanaford, is therefore
a complete review of the entire STU
alton. - :. -" -
East and south of Staples, Mimi,
the wheat crop will be satisfactory.
At Elk River wheat is threshing IL to
18 bushels to the acre, and the kerr
ncls are sound and Of very good quail
ity. Along the Little Falls & Dakota
line wheat will average close to II
bushels an acre. Oats is an excellent
crop. At Swanville an average of so
bushels is expected. ". 800
North Dakota reports grow more
and more optimistic. Fergus Falls
now expects an average of from 10 to
IA bushels of wheat. Wahpeton ex-
poets from IL to 13 bushels. Brecken-
ridge looks for from Is to 20 bushels
Ito the acre, and barley shows an aver
age of from IL to 10 bushels.
Mapleton sends an unusually favor
able report and predicts an average
yield of 20 bushels, ell grading No. 1
Northern, and the heaviest yield OF
all grains, including wheat, since 1895.
Casselton expects to do better than a
2O-bushel average, and Embden ex-
poets an average of from 13 to 20
bushels. North Dakota as a whole
shows q very considerable improve
ment in estimates Of the grade and
yield of grain, and comedies a. good
crop. Il,
Several localities have suffered dam
age from hail and sudden storms. no
tably the district near Buffalo. where
hail cut down the crops in a section
two and one-half miles wide and seven
miles long. Three hundred acres near
McHenry have been wiped out, and
hail storm cid much damage at Glen-
sullen. These are the only important
instances Of storm damage. "a 4
K Barley is q big crop throughout Min
ynesota and the Dakotas. and oats