The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-06
profits this year may be safely put at $4,000
Who was it that remarked that wheat raising

DIDIlLS UIllS year may De SJpIy put NJ S3D,unD.
Who was it that remarked that wheat raising
didn't pay2
DaIrymple has five steam threshers now
at work on 4000-acre farm at Casselton,
each one threshing an average Of 1000 bushels
per day. The grain is hauled directly to the
cars as fast as threshed and shipped to New
York by way of Duluth and the lakes. He
loads and forwards fifteen cars q day. At
$50 bushels to the car, the crop on this place
will make 257 car loads. The yield from what
has been threshed SO far is estimated at 10000
bushels-an average of 22a bushels to the
acre. Add $500 on the Grandin farm, in which
Mr.. Dalrymple has a half interest, and which
will average equally well. the two farms
will produce 1853, $50 bushels of wheat this
year. 'Dalrymple farm" is q tract of about
II 900 acres of land near Casselton, twenty
miles west of Fargo on the line of the North
crn Pacific Railroad. It Is owned by George
": Cass and 2. 3. Cheney of New York. and
acres were broken in 1875 and sowed to wheat
last year. This year there are 1000 acres in
wheat-and q splendid crop it u.s. too-and
5000 acres additional were broken this season
for seeding next year.
Mr.; Dalrymple also owns a half interest
in what is known as the Grandin farm, a
tract of 10000 acres just north of Elm river
in Trail county, Dakota, thirty-five miles
north of Fargo. The, other owners are the
Grandin brothers, bankers, of Tidioute, Penn
sylvania. On this farm there ale $500 acres
in wheat this year, and some 5000 acres
broken for next year. To harvest this crop of
1900 acres on the two places it required AZ
self binding reapers, 225 horses and mules
with capacity of 1000 bushels per day, are
now at work threshing the grain.
In addition to bis interest in these two i'm
mense farms, Mr.. Dalrymple owns 5000 acres
Paul. 1900 acres of which is in wheat; so that,
either as sole or halloween, Mr.. Dalrymple
is interested In 5000 acres of wheat this year,
which will be increased to $1,000 acres next
year.
We may add that it is the intention Of the
owners Of these two huge farms to break, on
an average, about 5000 acres each year, until
the whole 81 900 acres are brought under cul-
tivati0n. They have abundant means, and
the experiment. SO far, has proven that it is
not possible to make a better investment Of
money. This is the second year of the enter
prise, and, so far, the net profits have been
more than ten dollars per acre each year for
every acre.-[Fargo (Minn) Times.
south american Trade.
The New York Tribune reports:
At the New York Liberal Club yesterday, q
lecture on Brazil and the valley Of the ANA
ION was delivered by John Landesman which,
Judging from the frequent bursts of applause
that greeted the lecturer from time to time,
must have proved very interesting to his
hearers. The main points of the lecture were
as follows:
"It 50 happened that in 1874, while in Eng
land, L became, under the auspices Of the Bra
lillian government, instrumental in placing
the Amazon valley in direct steam commune
cation with Europe, and in thus opening up to
England the trade of the interior of Brazil
have returned to America after an absence
OF four years, and have found to my regret
that our trade is dull and our manufacturing
and exporting interests languishing. One
half of Brazis trade belongs to us, and we
and nllpbt RI do q bI1Gipp,c with RrnziI IF
at least Sl5O,000,0OO annually, and could we
secure some part of it now business would be
greatly benefited. The way to do it must be
pointed out by wiser head than mine. I
presume, however, that, in the language Of
Horace Greeley, the way to do it is to do it.
Having frequently visited Brazil, given
for years almost my exclusive attention to
the subject, | have become convinced of the
soundness Of the following propositions,
namely: ~ That our trade with Brazil is
ridiculously insignificant; ~ that it is capa-
pie OF the greatest expansion; 81 that we must
have an outlet for our exports; az that Brazil
is more desirable field for them"
The lecturer spent some time in describing
the geography and institutions of Brazil, and
the character of the valley Of the Amazon.
He then said
Let Rio designate the southern Para the
northern, Pernambuco the eastern, and Ma
vaos the western corner of the empire; the
distance then to Rio is 600 miles less from
New York than from Liverpool; to Pernam-
buco 400 miles less; to MavaOs and to Para
1880 miles less. In 1874 the exports of Brazil
had already risen to s104,0OO,0OO; coffee,
S61 100000; cotton, S13,000,000; sugar, 3d.
100000; hides, S6,5O0,0O0; rubber $3.50, 900,
and tobacco, S30o0,0O0, constituting the prin-
cipal items which was equal to an increase
Of nearly 300 per cent in a little more than
thirty years. Her imports average Sl1OOO0,O0O
annually. To her imports England con-
tributes 51ha per cent France 20 per cent,
Portugal per cent, and the United States,
which is nearer to Brazil than these other
countries, contributes only per cent. That
is to say Brazil buys annually from England
about $50, ZOO, 900 worth Of goods; from France,
10000 900; from Portugal, S5,000,00O, and
from the United States only about S4,000,000
The large share of other countries in this
trade is, perhaps, explained by the fact that
they have 80 many lines which dispatch their
steamers regularly from Brazilian ports.