Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1877-11-01
From the Fargo Times,
MIG WHEAT FARMS In MINNESOTA,

From the Fargo Times,
MIG WHEAT FARMS In MINNESOTA.
We had the curiosity the other
tlay to ask MIR. Dalrymple what he
expected the profit on his wheat
crop would be this year. He re-
piled that at present prices for wheat
his profits would be ten dollars per
acre. AS he is half owner OF seven
ty.five thousand acres of wheat In
the Red River valley, and has nf'
teen hundred acres on his home
farm ut Cottage Grove, MIMI, his
profits this year may be safely put
ut flfty thousand dollars. Who was
it that remarked that wheat-raising
didn't payp
Dalrymple has Ave steam thresh-
crs now at work ON u four-thousand-
acre farm at Casselton, each one
threshinG an average of one thou
sand bushels per day. The grain Is
hauled directly to the cars rs fast as
threshed, and shipped to New York
~ way Of Duluth and the lakes
lie loads and forwards fifteen cars u
day. AT three hundred and nifty
bushels to the cur, the crop on THIS
place viii make two HUNDRED and
iifty-seyen carloads. The yield,
from what has been threshed So TAI
il estimated at ninety Thousand
bushels, an ayerage of twenty-five
and a half bushels per acre. Add
10 thirty-fiye thousand ON the Gra-
din farm, IN which Mr.. Dairymple
has half interest, aud which will
average equally well, the two farms
will produce 169,750 bushels OF
wheat this year. ''Dalry mple farm"
in o. tract OF about Ill, ,000 acres OF
land near CasSelton, twenty miles
west of Fargo, on the liue OF The
Northern Pacific Railroad. Ii Ii
owed by George w. Cass and z. Is.
Cheney, of New York, aud Oliver
Dalrymple. the SWheat King OF
Minnesota as he IS termed.
Twelve hundred acres were broken
in 1875 and sowed to wheat last
year. This year there are 4.OOO
acres in wheat-and splendid crop
il IL, too--aLd 5000 acres addition
n were broken this season for seed
ing next year.
Mr.. Dalrymple also. owns halt
interest III what is known as tue
lirandin farls, a tract Of 4O,0OO
acres Just north Of Elm river, III
Trail county, Dakota. IS miles north
Of Fargo. The other owners are
the Grandin brothers, bankers, ot
Tldeoule, Pa. On this farm there
are 8, 500 acres in wheat this year
and some 5000 acres broken tor
next year. To harvest this crop VI
$4,000 acres on tue two places 1t re-
Quired AZ self-binding reapers, 2S5
horses and mules and 159 men.
Nine steam threshers, each with "A
capacity Of LOCO bushels per day,
are now at wor K threshiug the
grain.
In addition to his interest in these
two immense farms, Mr.. Dalrym-
PIE owns two thousand acres of land
in Cotton Grove, Minn.. near ST.
Paul. fifteen hundred acres of which
il in wheat; SO that, either as a sole
or half owner, Mr.. Dalrymple Il in
terested in nine thousand acres OF
wheat this year, which will be IN
creased to fifteen thousand next
year.
We nay add that it is the inten-
tion of the owners OF these two
huge farms TO break on an average
about 6ve thousand acres each year,
until the whole fifty-one thousand
acres are brought under cultivation.
They have abundant means, and
the experiment so far has proven
that 1t is not possible to make
better investment of money. This
is the second year of the enterprise,
and so far the net profits have been
more than ten dollars per acre each
year, for every acre.