The Portland daily press., 1877-11-02

FARMING IN THE WEsT.-T. 81. Weston
Esq, has recently returned home from an ex-'
tended tour through the West At Castleton
station. twenty miles west of Fargo on the
Northern Pacific Railroad in Dakota Territory
he met Mr.. Oliver Dalrymple, an extensive ag-
riculturalst, who CONTROLS no less than II 1000
acres of tillage land. This land is in two farms.
the first 1000 acres on the Red River, and the
second Of 1000 acres at Castleton, over which
the Northern Pacific Railroad runs. The for.
mer averages about % bushels of grain to the
acre, while the latter comes fully up to %
bushels. From these figures it will be seen
that the harvest of this season on thse two
farms will be no less than 261, 1000 bushels, and
the profit of the two farms is placed at $4,000
for the current year. Mr.. Weston was present
to see portion of this great crop harvested
They used an improved reaper which cuts and
binds the grain at once. In some cases a large
number Of these machines are run for nights
and days in order 70 get the grain in good
shape. Views taken from the farm show from
twenty to thirty teams blowing, narrowing and
sowing the seed. 1t is gigantic concern and
will rank with any in the country. Mr.. Wes-
ton says that the land is taken up very fast
along the line of the Northern Pacific and he
thinks it is all taken as far West as Fort Sew
ell, and for twenty miles back on either side
STATE METEOROLOGICAL SURvEY.-An Au-
gusta correspondent of the Boston Journal says
an effort will be made at the next session of
the Maine legislature to get authority and an
appropriation for a meteorological survey of the
state. There has been 10 survey of the state
since 1861 and 1862, when Pro-. Hitchcock
made geological and scientific survey, without
special regard to ascertaining mineral re-
sources. Yet his conclusions and those of
Prof. Jackson in 1886, 1887 and 1888, indicate
extensive and valuable mineral deposits which
are now attracting attention and bid fair to be
developed at no very distant day. f. L. Bart
lett, State Assayer, is very strongly impressed
with the idea that the undeveloped mineral
resources of the state are very rich, and are to
become sources of great profit and give en-
ployment to thousands of men in the not very
distant future; and as an important aid to this
desirable state of things, he advocates survey
to be commenced next year at cost of about
$4,000, trusting that the results will be Of
character to insure its continuance until the
state shall be thoroughly surveyed.
SIGNAL SERVICE acknowledgement Boyd,
in charge of the Portland station of the U. S
Signal Service, furnishes the following report
for the month of October:
Monthly Mean Barometer, 30.011.
Monthly Mean Thermometer, 49.7 deg.
Monthly Mean Humidity, 73.F.
Highest barometer, 80 5l5 on 9Th.
Lowest barometer, 29468 on 5th
Monthly range barometer LOS.
Highest temperature II deg, on 1st
Lowest temper allure 30 deg on 26th and 9th.
Monthly range of temperature. IL deg.
Greatest daily range oftemperature q deg on It'll
and 18th.
Mean of maximum temperatures 51.7.
Mean of minimum temperatures 43
Mean daily range of temperatures, 1871.
Total ram fall, or melted snow 800 inches.
Prevailing wind, N.
Total number of miles travelled, 6,024.
Maximum Velocity of wind, N. 80 miles per hour,
on the 5th.
Number of cloudy days, other than those on which
rain fell, 5.
Number of days which rain fell, Is
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