Daily globe., 1878-08-08
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l

Special Telegram to the Globe.
BISMARCK, Aug 7-Our party had good
nights rest at Fargo.
wAsHBURN,
having read in Tuesdays GLOBE that Clay
county was little off color towards him, con-
cluded not to sleep in Dakota Territory and ac-
cordingly went over to Moorhead and made a
night of 1t with the boys.
After good breakfast our train pulled out
for Casselton, twenty miles away. Here halt
of three hours made. to inspect
THE GREAT FARMS
owned by B. P. Cheney, of Boston, Geo. w.
Cass, of Pittsburgh, and Oliver Dalrymple of
st. Paul. The Cass and Cheney farms, though
owned separately, are both worked under the
management of Mr.. Dalrymple, who is part
owner in each. These farms comprise lO, ,24O
acres, there being 4, 900 acres of the Cass farm
in crops, and 2,300 of the Cheney farm. In
addition Mr.. Dalrymple and his nephews own
large tracts of land, that he has at this point
(Casselton) some
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND ACRES
under his supervision, 1000 of which are ull-
der plow and 5000 in crop the present season.
Mr.. Darymple met us at the platform with
teams, and the party were driven about the
is to try an absolute impossibility. There was
wheat to the right of us, wheat to the left of
us and wheat all about The farms are laid
off by regular sections, with roads four rods
wide between the sections. Riding along these
roads and looking as
FAR AS THE EYE CAN REACH,
perhaps four or five miles on either side, q
solid sea of golden grain was visible and the
horizon seemed to come down and blend with
the bountiful product of this soil.
These farms worked in divisions of twen-
ty-five hundred acres. each division having d
superintendent with foremen under him who
oversee the men--the laborers being divided
into small gangs with foremen for each. The
superintendent drives about over his division
in a buggy, while the foremen, on horseback
see that all goes right with the men under their
charge.
We visited two sections where
sELF-BINDING REAPERs
were at work, there being in field seventeen
self-binders in line, and in the other twelve.
Each elf-binder was drawn by three horses or
mules abreast and cut swath six and half
feet wide. 1t requires two men for every three
self-blnders to shock the bundles. There are
fifty of these self-bnding reapers these
farms, and as each one can cut fourteen acres
per day, some idea of the rapidity of the har
vest can be found. Mr.. Dalrymple commenced
cutting July 2Sth, and by Saturday night of
this week the entire cut will be completed.
THREsHTNG
will begin in two days. They have ten steam
threshers, each with q ten horse power engine.
Each thresher has capacity Of 900
bushels per day. The wheat is tlreshed from
the shock and carried from the machine to
cars, and they will load twenty-five per
day and ship to market until the work is COM
pleted.
Every bushel of this wheat will grade
Der one and Mr.. Dalrympe estimates yield
of twenty-five bushels to the acre, which will
make an aggregate of 900
bushels from the farms under his supervision
at Casselton. 1t will not in any ev ent go be-
low twenty bushels of No to the acre.
II WAS SOMETHING GRAND
to see the army of reapers gathering in the
wealth. Some 800 men and 800 horses and
mules are required to do this gigantic harvest
ing in the time named. The men are paid $3.50
per day, and so many new settlers have come
in that help is abundant. They work as long
as it is light-frequently putting in fourteen
hours per day.
The different divisions of these great farms
are each supplied with Il
COMPLETE SET OF BUILDINGS,
consisting of the superintendent's residence,
boarding house, barn of sufficient size to ac-
commodate sixty-ive head of stock, and a
blacksmith and repair shop. There are six
sets of these buildings these farms.
Repairers are in the fields ready to do any
mending of the self-bnders that can be done
without taking the machine to the shop Du-
picate pieces Of all small parts of the machines
are kept on hand to prevent delay. In fact
everything which capital and forethought can
provide, is supplied on these great FARMS
Two years ago last spring the first work was
done on these farms, and this is the third crop.
In 1876 but $50 acres were IN crop on the Cass
and Cheney farms combined.
Mr. Darymple also superintends
TIE GREAT GRANDIN FARM,
owned by the Grandin brothers, of Tideoute,
Penn. This farm is thirty miles down the Red
5000 of which are in crop. On this Grandin
farm there are thirty self-binders
at work Ithas six steam threshers
and three sets OF buildings
and is if anything different, more complete
than the farms we visited to-day. The pro
pr,etors have built steamboat and severa
barges to market their crop, and can land 9,OOt
bushels at Fargo every thirty hours.
BEFORE LEAVING cAssELToN
we were driven to one of the residences on th
Cheney farm, where Mrs. Cheney and Mrs
Dalrymple did the honors of the occasion ant
supplied an excellent lunch The only speecl
of the occasion composed OF toast Offered
by Murry Nelson, of Chicago, who proposed
1.-THE health of Messrs. Cheney and Dalrympe
the heroes OF the great American Whea
DESERT
Just before starting from Casselton the part
formed in line on the platform to have
A PHOTOGRAPH
taken, Castle sat down so that the portio
Barney Armstrong kicked at need not appear
Washburn turned his back to the instrument
nreferrine to exhibit the family bran
rather than the frontispiece. Lang
don and Dave Blakely were so tall that the
lowered right over the machine and had to
taken in sections. ASIDE from these ofa"pacf
the picture was good one.
The next halt after leaving Casselton was
ATJAMEsTowN,
where an excellent dinner was served. Thoue
far away we realized that we We
stiu within the confines of civiliz
tion by finding here some splendid S
Paul lager, fresh tapped. While some OF u
elderly mem bers of the party were looking t
n coal men Preston, of Chicago discovered Il
beer mine, and it industriously worked |
Gov. L,udington and other parties from M
waukee who, for the moment, seemed to THU
thew had reached their Faderland.
At the fourteenth siding the train halteo
moment to inspect breaking being made
steele g. Van Dusen. of Milwaukee, who have
tract here of several thousand acres. Thou
this was in the heart OF Gen. Hazeh ana
MAJOR PoWELL's DESERT,
the soil was found to be magnificent, fu
eonal to that of the Cass and Cheney farm
and averaging depth of from three to seV
feet. -.
Some idea of what is being done in tins n
country can be found from the
AMOUNT OF NEW BREAKING
being done this year between Fargo and