The Richmond palladium., 1870-03-22

1st That capital and labor could be
applied succ essfully to wheat raising on
large scale.
Cd. That man could be a farmer,
and not slave.
With these two distinct ideas before
him, he set about to work them out,
mindless OF old rules and precedents.-
Within year he bought two thousand
acres of the best wheat land, opposite
Hastings, and near Point Douglas. pay
ing from $3.50 to s15 an acre. 1t was
smooth high, undulating prarie, without
a bush or tree, that had borne only wild
grass and flowers, and fed deer and par
tridges for thousands of successive years.
The surface soil is a dark, warm, veg
liable loan, two feet deep, and mixed
with clay, lime, and sand. 1t has deep
clay sub soil, resting on limerick stra-
ta The location is slightly and acces-
sible, and is sdmirably described by the
rapturous Gail Hamilton in her Wool
Gathering adventure Of three years ago.
" I'LL lIttiC SucOp ~ SAS ""JS
has long since been dismembered, aud
the location Of her sheep farm, a mile
out of Hastings, become mostly un-
known to the people there.
ON HIS FARM.
In June, 1866. Mr.. Dalrymple put IN
fifteen breaking teams, with six heavy
horses each They turned mile-long
forrows, sixteen inches wide, and two
.nd half deep. In forty-two days he
had seventeen hundred acres under
pIow,' at an average cost of S3 an acre.
He fenced his farm in three divisions
one of thosand acres, and two of
five hundred each He set fourteen
miles of oak silence, four boards
high, at a cost of $500 mile. The lar
ger division, we're he resides, he calls
his Grant farm and the other two his
Sherman and Sheridan farms. His
stable and grain-houses are 60 by ~
| feet each, with shed and storing apart
ments on both sides. He uses his own
| farm implements, and uses the best.
He has thirty stout horses, averagln g
twelve hundred pounds each, and worth
$500 span. He has pet names for all.
and keeps them fat. He hires his other
force of work horses as needed. He
has fifteen farm wagons, and three pri-
vatc carriages for himself and friends.
He keeps two cows for milk and cream.
With the exception of hundred acre
patch of clover and timothy, and tri-
fle of gardening, he crops only wheat.
Seed time and harvest only require his
attention, he is his own man he says
nine months in the year. He keeps two
responsible men on his Grant farm at
timss;::also the two very trusty and cheer
full ebony girls. He has an eighty acre
wood-lot boarding his prarie, equal
in profits, he says. to two acres of
wheat.
SOWING WHEAT.
Mr.. Dalrymple attaches Importance
to seed sowing and sowing early: He
commences about the l2th Of April, and
dispatches the whole in two weeks. He
uses twelve twenty -four drag teams.
All move together in battalion order,
under one supervision His horses are
in good order, the men make long days,
and are all cared for generally. He puts
in hushel and half of Scotch-ffe
wheat to the acre.-His last springs
seeding took an even three thousand
| bushels, and was finished in exactly
twelve days.
HARVESTING.
Harvesting is the great event Of the
year, and calls out the true Dalrymple
talent and directing energy. The idea
| is to secure the largest measures of re-
suits in the shortest space Of time to
get the harvesting finished the wheat
to market, and the money in pocket
while others are dawdling along under
barn cover, or watching their field sacks
in terror Of equinoctia!s of fires. Two
weeks before harvest. he advertises in
st. Paul for one hundred and twenty
five men at $3.50 a day. He has nc
trouble in recruiting good men who have
worked in the pineries or on river RATS
They like the excitement of great num-
oers. Harvest opens early in July.
Fifteen four horse Mccormick reapers
move into the field together following
each other side by side, like the flight
of wild geese through the air. Ninety
binders. by twos in numbers Of twelve.
1t is an inspiriting sight-ffteen broad
armed reapers plunging into a sea oi
waving grain. Men and horses do tn eir
best. If one falls behind, another takes
his place. Everything ir provided for.
and no time lost. Horses are washed
and well groomed at night. Men go in
to the field at sunrise, and are called to
dinner at IL; lunch is taken out at