The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-30
Wheat Will Average Ten Bushels Per
Acre-Oat Yield Said to be
Light.
POLITICAL SITUATION In POLK
COUNTY IS COMPLICATED
Thomas R. Brown and Fred Strobe]
Expected to Oppose Marin
and Halten.

Crookston, July 80, 1910-(Speci-
al to the Pioneer 1.-The harvest
this year is going to be completed
earlier than any season during the
past twenty years. The rye harvest
began the first of the week and
some of the farmers threshed at
once and. the rye yield is proving
very fair. There is a big rye
acreage this year as farmers are
getting: more and more into rye as
= d cleaning crop for land and be-
cause it permits efof blowing the
land very early. So. -
a Some early oats have been out also
but the yield will be very light.
Some of the farmers have been now
ing their oats on the green side and
. will make fodder of them because of
the shortage of roughage for the
mich cows. Green oats, though
p too rich to be fed freely will make
an excellentsfodder when properly
. cured and used with less richer
coarse feed. Dat or barley fed with
it makes a fairly good feed.
A little early wheat has been cut.
Some Of it will yield as high as
! fifteen bushels per acre, But these
are the exceptions. However there
Il rensany has NAT easily thresh
ten and twelve bushels per acre and
very few will 20 less than eight
bushels per acre. Late barley is as
rule very poor and a great deal of
it will not be cut. However the
farmers will use it as pasturage in
many instances and in this manner
keep their dairy herds we'll fed till
the pastures pick up.
The pastures will do little until
soaking rain comes. showers doing
scarcely any good as the moisture
evaporates before the roots of the
grass derive any material benefit.
Creamery men are surprised at the
manner in which the production of
cream is being maintained in the
face of very poor pasturage, but the
dairymen are resourceful and using
everything possible for green feed to
keep up the milk flow.
No new machinery has been pur-
chased such as would have been
necessary had bumper crop been
promised. The outlook has not
been good at any time since the
middle of June and as a result
farmers are not facing obligations
which they cannot meet. Mer-
chants have also been conservative
and both farmers and merchants
have prep ared for shor, crop and
as result there is going to be
very little inconvenience if the
weather its favorable and what
grain has been raised can be saved
and marketed.
Interest has been added to the
legislative situation in Polk county
by the rumor that Thomas R.
Brown, secretary of the Crookston
Commercial club is considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of entering the legisla.
tive race and as a running mate
may have Fred Strobel of Angus.
Mr.. Brown is we'll known through.
out the county, having become
personally acquainted with the
farmers of the county as secretary
of the Northwestern Minnesota
Agricultural society of Polk county.
Mr.. Strobel is we'll known farmer
who has resided at Angus for the
past twenty years and is also a
prominent member of the G. A. R,
Neither one has announced their
candidacy but there has been con.
siderable talk. Both are agreeable
to western Polk and their friends
believe they would give Representa-
tive Holton of Fertile and w. A.
Marin, who have already filed, a
merry chase.
Mr.. Brown has discussed the