The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-12
EaLSCELLANY.
Glenn, Of COlusa, the Great Farmer
Of the World

\ Sacramento paper publishes the
following respecting the farming opera
tions of a man whom il denominates
''the largest farmer in the world" T" which
considering that DR.. Glenn runs his
farm of $4,000 acres himself, personally
experimenting it all, the appellation is
correct:
The great farmer of the world, Dr.
Hugh j. Glenn, Of Jacinto, Colusa coun-
~, California, has raised and harvested
the past season, on his own farm, 100000
bushels of wheat. This would load
eighteen 1000 ton ships, or three hun
dred canal boats. All this wheat he has
now in his own warehouses, ready for
shipment when the water in the Sacra-
mento river rises sufficiently. The Doc
tor pays 800 900 freight to put his wheat
in the San Francisco market. The Doc
tor is a wonder to the agricultural world
and to himself He runs ninety gang
plows, and whole county's population
in the harvest field, with dozen thresh
ers. His farming is not confined to
wheat alone. He markets 100000
worth of stock each year. DIR. Glenn is
a practical farmer, and manages all his
immense business himself. He can
mend a trace, and make a key TO an OK
bow with his jack-knife just as easy as
drawing his check for 100000, which
he can do every day in the week. DIR.
Glenn has only experienced one surprise
during the year, and that was when
friend informed him that panic had
entered the land. Glenn is a big-heart-
ed man, was born in Augusta county,
Virginia, and does honor to the "Old
Dominion" Send the medal to Glenn.
This is a remarkable ease of farming
enterprise, and is enough to make the
ordinary Granger open his eyes in amaze
ment. DR.. Glenn, though born in Vir-
ginia, came to Missouri, when quite
young, with his father, Mr.. George
Glenn, who is still resident of Monroe
county. He received a good collegiate
education, and when near the age of
maturity studied medicine. Just about
the time he received his diploma, the
Mexican war broke out and he enlisted
in the Monroe company which accomp
anied Doniphan's expedition through
New Mexico, Chihuahua, &C., returning
when the war was done. When the
California excitement came on, in the
winter of 1889, he Immediately set
about organizing an expedition across
the plains to the land of gold. This was
successfully landed, and, after mining
for some time with great success (every
time he struck his pick he brought out
color, the Doctor went into speculation
in live stock, bought a ranch and run it
with great profit. He added immense
tracts of land to his original ranch, and
became what he now is, the greatest
forty-eight years old, of small stature,
being about five feet seven inches in
height, with a tough and wiry body, au-
burn hair and blue eyes, and is possess
eu OF an energy tnat DO -oDstdcle cdh
surmount He knows no such word as
fail.
If the Doctor, however, has weak
ness, it is for draw poker. He bets with
the same voluminous impetuosity that
he does everything else. He has been
known to stand "Pat" without pair
and '-raise" $4,000; on several occasions
he has lost immensely. He is not always
unlucky, however, and his nerve has
driven out many players holding better
"hands." DR.. Glenn is one of the most
remarkable characters that California
has developed, and deserves to rank with
the great hero of mining stock celebrity
Bonanza Sharon.