Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — HALF A CROP IS SOWN. [ARTICLE]

HALF A CROP IS SOWN.

Wheat Season in North Dakota, I* Greatly Delayed. Grain receivers in Duluth; Minn., have received reixirts during the past week from the entire wheat country in North Dakota. A consensus of interviews obtaiued Indicates that the iwwi sows to date iu that State is equal to less than 50 per cent of the acreage sown a year ago. The reiHsrts range from 3 per rent in the Bed River Valley to 70 per cent south of the international boundary. A correspondent, who has been personally investigating the situation in the "flooded counties of .Minnesota and' North Dakota, bordering on the Bed river, sends an exhaustive resort. showing that, the conditions are unfavorable for the wheat crop. Large areas are under water, and furtn work has-been so badly delayed, or entisely prevented, that not more than 60 per cent of the usual acreage will bcitr wheat. The eight counties in question hud last year a yield of 30,000,000 bushels, and this will be cut down at least 10,000,000 bushels. As an instance of the cpndition of affuirs, one can go in a rowboat over open prairie from Warren, Minn., forty miles north to Hallock', and it would be dangerous to venture with a wagon more than three miles from the Great Northern tracks between these points. The streets of most of the towns are flooded and impassable.