The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-20
SPRING WHEAT
PROSPECT GOOD
Soft Wheat B~ad-Farmers
Flowing and Sowing Oats.
More Feed Grain.

Spring Wllcat prospects may Inc cali
ed gpon especially in Minnesota and
the Dakotas. The land is NOT all
equally prepared with moisture and
The difference cuaSes different progress
in seeding. In dryer portions about
all the fall plowed land for Wheat is
in, while in the more moist and low
er levels it is yet too wet To work sat
i%sfactorily.
The weather. since seeding. has
been under way. has been good for
the work in about all parts and in Il
few of the dryer lands some oats have
gone in. II is believed that more
care is taken in preparation oi soil
and seed this season than usual. which
is action much needed. owing to the
unusual proportion Of the seed that
does NOT grow. 1t is estimated that
more than half the wheat Tor the sea-
son is now in the ground.
Damaged Winter Wheat Crop.
Crop reports continue the claim
hat the soft wheat is in bad shape
with farmers blowing large acreage
and sowing the land to oats. Il. w.
Snow reports ahout $4,000, 900 crop OF
wheat in Indiana. lnglis 10000, 600
and others say about 50. 00o.0 900 or
less. Worse advices came along from
Kansas each day added to the dam
age.
One report of crop giving statement
by counties said wheat in Pawnee is
l%1a PEE. cent dead. Rice A. per cent,
Locke -, Hugh %2la. Ottawa 10. Re
public none. osborne none. Marshall
ington A. Nemaha 40, Barton IL.
Brown -. Clay 30. Cloud IS, Edwards
IL, Ellsworth lag, Graham 12}a.
Harper 2l2, Kingman 7i@. Sedgkick
3i9. Saline. Smith and Shawnee none.
Stafford 81 per cent dead. Many
places are to some extent said IL he
partially reparable with suitable
weather. East of the ~Alleghenies the
winter wheat crop is said to be quite
the reverse of that in the middle west.
Southern Indiana advices say the
situation is better there than in the
northern part. About 20 per cent for
the state is abandoned. The actual
killing is in spots more or less fire.
quent. making it impracticablc in
plant to other crops. Early seeded
oats are up. Missouri has oats bout
half in.
Many wheat fields in the damaged
area will be left to make what. they
may a a choice between that ana the
expense of blowing and sowing to 9TH
rr crops. In localities where the crop,
two weeks ago, was thought to he good
for half Il rrop ut least it is said now
to be practically dead. Nebraska is
reported much wors" than earlier
thought to be. Missouri too is sonw
said to be a greater sufferer han
earlier expected.
"A party from Washington over the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad. passing
through northern Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio, while there was Yet enough day
light to See the condition OF the farms.
declares that the winter wheat in
these states. US far as he SAW il, shows
absolutely nn signs of life. Seeding
of oats and other farm work is far be-
hind time, on account of the want OF
warm. dry weather.. 1t is very doubt
full, he says, whether the wheat has
enough life To pick up nj all. Ii may
all be ploWcI up iii the region through
which he passed, and the acreage SOM
I'd in corn and other grains, but not i'll
spring wheat. He remarks that on &C
coun of the wintrA storms which have
swept through those central states,
their farming is not so far advanced
this year as II is in Montana and even
Alberta.
The farms of Pennsylvania and
MARYLAND east of the mountains.
About them there was a different tale
To tell. The winter wheat was IN eX-
ccllent condition. The fields looked
as neat II green as n Well-kept avn
There has beer plenty OF warm dry
NCillts NlC
a party who travels through the
countr a good deal. states that farm
ers are at work everywhere. and that
the wheat seeding, particularly. is Well
advanced. He also states that the
whoa area is going to he Very much
reduced this year-in fact that 1t is
going 10 be only a fraction of what it
was heretofore.
Farmers are turning to feed crops
corn and uarley-and to winter rye
A Very large area of winter rye was
sown last fall. and fields are already
green. The winter Was very severe.
but there WAS less Wind than usual.
and the fields in general Were not
swept bare of snow. AS a conse-
1ucnce, the winter rye has generally
stood the extreme cold Very we'll.
The ground is in first class condi-
ton for seeding. and no one would
object to dry weather until the seeding
is finished. After that. everyone
would object to dry weather until the
seeding is finished. After that, every
one would he glad to see some rain, as
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