Wheat Prices Rise as Dakota Farmers Hold Back
August reports detail wheat damage from heat and rain, with Dakota's spring wheat outlook improving as losses shrink. Estimates place total spring and winter wheat around 425 million bushels with potential exports and carryover. Rufus Hatch argues farmers should hold for higher prices, citing two year figures and possible imports if 1886 crop remains small. Minnesota grades updated for No 1 hard and northern spring wheat. Corn prospects rise, lime on pest control for Jocust plague discussed with a bran arsenic mix recommendation.
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Dakota
Department of Agriculture
Washington
United States
Rockies
California
Hatch
Minnesota State Board of Warehouse and Railroad Commissioners
Cora
Tree Claim Growth In Dakota Demonstrates Thriving Timber
An North Dakota article praises growing timber in Jamestown area as proof trees survive harsh winters. Hendricks family shows ten acres with five to twelve feet trees, low costs, high value around $1,000 plus land value, under a Territory bounty of $2 per acre annually for ten years. It urges farmers to plant ten acres per quarter section to gain incentives and ornament the community.
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Dakota
Avery
Jamestown
North Dakota
Hendricks
Town
Aketh
Grasshopper flood threatens crops and future destruction
The article notes grasshoppers are numerous across the west and have damaged oats, clover seed, and meadow crops. It warns of possibly larger swarms next year requiring systematic control measures to protect crops, vineyards, and orchards.
Curious Old Man and a New Grindstone Machine
In Chicago Rock Island railroad shops a supper table tale describes a pedal driven machine with a rotating disk, converting vertical motion to circular work. The device, a new grindstone, speeds periphery to shape hard steel by impact. Also notes plans for an interoceanic ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and a canal idea across Nova Scotia.
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Chicago
George Dorwart
Tom Jones
George
Gulf of St Lawrence
Seaboard
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Lord Brabourne
John Fowler
London Underground
Eads
Tehuantepec
New York Times
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Rufus Hatch
New York Sun
Hateh
Conquillet
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Sacramento Bee
Tuerk
Asal
Fay
Millie's and Dressmakers
Grocers
Butchers
Bowe & Stiver
Ceneral
Craeral
Huron
Dakota Avenue
Huron Dakota
Wisconsin Land and Lumber CO
Redfield
Wolsey
Aberdeen
A. Tucker
Gen
D.T
Fargo, Dakota
Tornado
Hall
Waves
ALA Conning
Lowell
N. H. Merrill & CO
Huron, Dakota
W.H. Voss
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