People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — WHEAT IN NINETY DAYS. [ARTICLE]

WHEAT IN NINETY DAYS.

Quick Maturing of Grain in the Red River Valley. Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 29.—The harvest weather for the past day or two has enabled farmers who were delayed in their seeding to finish cutting their wheat without damage. The gathering of the harvest ui North Dakota will be practically finished this week. In some parts of the state it was finished last week. Farmers who finished sowing in March are now rejoicing in an abundant crop safe in the stack or thrashed. From seventy to eighty days was a short time for a crop of wheat to mature, but this year there are farmers in the Red River valley who sowed, cut theirs and shipped it just ninety days from the date of the last sowing. This has been the shortest and quickest harvest ever known in North Dakota, and the yield is from twelve to forty-two bushels per acre in the valley.