The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-02
.DRIER WEATHE IS
NEEDED FOR CROPS
CORRESPONDENTS GENERALLY
COMPLAIN OF EXCESSIVE RAIN.
Red Rust Is Reported from Many Sta
tions, but a Few Warm, Sunny Days,
It Is claimed, Would Send Wheat
Booming Toward Bumper Yield
Some Sample Reports.

July came in with the crops in the
northwest holding their own and the
favorable Indications of last week main
tanned. A number Of Chamber Of Com
merce men ran out Saturday night and
spent Sunday in the grain fields. J.
The unfavorable developments of
minor nature noted last week were
but it is too early for damage, and cool
weather and winds operate to dissipate
It rather than to- make it spread.
Farmers are complaining Of too much
rain, but agree generally that a little
good weather win put everything right.
Some Sample Reports. ri
Country correspondents at points thru
Minnesota. North and South Dakota
sent in kilograms this morning to A.
J. Cummings of the Chamber giving
Willmar. Minn.-Grain in good condi-
ton. Some red rust, but no damage.
Dry weather badly needed. go.
Comstock Mnn.-Wheat about eight
inches high; most all Of bottom leaves
are eaten up by red rust, and all of the
top leaves are yellow specked. Water
standing in the fields here and there,
which is unfavorable. sE# ,t.+s
Madison. MISUNDERSTANDING crop
VI SWSAFSEs U4SIAelS pei acre. OO110 TGu
rust. Corn-Backward Oats-Prospects
good; headed out; will yield thirty Ave
to forty bushels.
Sioux Falls. S. observation-disclosures
small. Some talk of red rust; nothing Sc
rious. Corn-Backward. Oats-Almost
an average yield expected
Boyd, Minn.-In low lands drowned out.
High land looks good, but some red rust.
Watertown, S. D.-Crops could not be
fyrnr, Nxv~1t- d. n. ~1~V-
| weather from now on will be- fully up to
| last year. ~*.
Lamberton, Minn.-Wheat :. average
crop of ten to twelve bushels per acre.
Some red rust. Corn backward Oats
prospects good. ,..... .: 49,
| Mankato, Minn.-No rain over Sunday
Majority Of wheat fields more or less In
! fected by red rust, but so far no in
jury apparent as plant looks healthy and
beginning to head out nicely. ~
Too Much Wet. ~. -.
Morris, Minn.-small grain not doing
Well; too much wet and cloudy weather;
| fields very wet A. p T. ~
q, Grafton, N. D.-Good prospects of a.
bumper crop as there was in 1895. Wheat
heading out and all other grains doing
we'll Walsh, Pemb1na and Cavalier
counties are in the same condition. ::
/" dSe11y, MluI-" neat, from TWO TO
three weeks late. About Is to 20 per cent
loss In acreage Oats and corn slow
Ifoople, N. D-Outlook good. Some
red rust in wheat, which is further evil
denced by wheat heading in but few
places. Flax we'll advanced; outlook
promises good crop. .~ .s,s..
Fargo, N. D.-Too much rain. Many
reports Of - red rust received. Wheat
acreage acreage, small on account Of excessive
| Winona., Minn.-Wheat and oats COM
ing along we'll. Corn backward; some
fields not at all good; small and weak.
! La Crosse, Wis.-Wheat, oats and bar
ley doing nicely. Corn backward 4.
4 Red Wing, Minn.-Heavy red rust thru
the barley fields, otherwise crops look ia
vorable.
Valley City, N. D.-stand fair, but
! fields looking bad; leaves near bottom of
plant dead. Lots of red rust - =:
Breckenridge, Minn.-All grains in
this vicinity looking fine; very heavy
stand. Earlysown wheat heading out.
Farmers say wheat never looked better.
F'airmont, Minn.-Wheat-Not large
acreage in this section. Corn-On high
land fair, but ten days late; on low
lands very poor; too much moisture r..
W1nnebago, Minn.-Reports of red rust
In wheat, otherwise prospects fair, but
must have dry weather. Corn-Doine
well; has improved during last week,
Oats-Looking well; heading out -