Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-11
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

An Exhibit Of 1ts Products At the Mime
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Still moving westward, We enter the place
devoted TO the exposition Of products from
the great valley Of the Red River of the
North, in Dakota. the first being from
cAss COUNTY,
with its enormous beets, potatoes and other
vegetables, Red Chef wheat, 80 bushels per
acre; extra No. / Scotch Fife, the standard
wheat Of the north, from dozens of farmers.
all ranging IN yields from 81 TO IS bushels
per acre, weighing from 594 to 81 pounds
per bushel; barley and oats, finer than any
where else on the grounds, from the pioneer
farmers, Messrs. Whitman & Hollis, of Far
60, attracted great notice. The great fields
Of Cheney, 1886 acres in wheat; that of the
Cas- farm, 1884 acres; the GRANDPA farm,
with its 5000 acres-a grand total Of 10, $3.50
acres in wheat this year-send their samples
Of Extra No. l Scotch Fife showing the
special average yields Of from % to %
bushels per acre as the average of the stu
pendious field.
Leaving the Red river valley, MI. Powers
calls our attention to the grain produced on
the upland prairies of Dakota, from what
the opponents of the road have so long
been trying to convince the public were
worthless alkaline plains.
ARN COUNTY,
sixty miles west Of the Red river. by its
pioneers, Col. Marsh and Mr.. Gardemap.
of Valley City,shows extra No. l wheat, oats,
corn and vegetables; equal to any thing
from Minnesota. These samples are the
first fruits" grown under all the disadvan-
tages incidental TO the opening of a new
country, and are surprising Indications OF
the richness Of the soil.
sruTsMAN COUNTY,
by its worthy representative, Geo. w. Ven
mum, Esq, of jamestown, sends Fife wheat,
"a bushels per acre and Gl4 pounds per
bushel oats, SO bushels per acre and &c
pounds per bushel, az we'll as vegetables OF
superior kind. This also ia a part of the
c ,untry just opened for settlement last year,
last fall with but some 300 acres all told
under cultivation, and now at the end of its
second season with over 5000 acres ready
for spring sowing.
Proceeding still further across the arid (?)
plains we find
BURLElGH COUNTY,
on the Missouri river, two hundred miles
west Of the Red river valley, exhibits from
the Stark field of 800 acres two samples OF
oats, the white and black, fifty bushels per
acre and thirty-eight pounds per Dushel, and
some Fife wheat, equal in every respect to
the best on the noted farms of the Red river
valley. Three years ago we remember
hearing Mr.. Power say ''that the entire belt
of country from Duluth to Bismarck was
susceptible of profitable cultivation of all
kinds of grains and vegetables, and that he
would yet convince the most skeptlcaI as to
the truth of the statement" We were then
somewhat inclined to doubt him, but the
grand exhibit he makes this year removes
the doubt, and is a partial explanation of
his extraordinary success in selling lands,
which, We learn from him, reaches the enor-
nous area of over three million of acres.
But with all the wonderful exhibition we
have noted, the climax is reached by the
samples from Washington and Oregon.
We would gladly enlarge on this spler-
did exposition. but want of space prevents
US. We must briefly sum up by saving tha,
the exhibit by the Northern Pacific road
proves the truth of what is claimed by the
officers and friends OF the road. e.:
h the entire country from Lake Supe.
rior to the Pacific coast is a rich agricultu-
raj country and will be thickly populated 80
soon as the building of the road opens the
way for settlement.
That every variety of vegetables can be
grown on its line hat can be produced in
Minnesota, Wisconsin or Ohio.
That corn can be grown as successfully as
in either of the above named states.
That the only sure field for the produc.
ton of No. l spring wheat is north of the
44th parallel.
That in this northern belt there is almost
an absolute assurance Of exemption from
loss Of wheat crop by climatic cause. That
the Dakota pralrles are as rich and produc-
tive as any lands in Kansas and Nebraska,
and that all Of the letters ever written BY
Gen. Hazen and Major Powell, stating that
this section OF country is worthless for Gull
tivation, are either malicious falsehoods or
the .grossest exhibition of ignorance ever
made public. Any one viewing this grand
show of natures productions cannot fail to
be convinced that we have but reported the
halt, and will, in the future, not be sur.
prised at most any statement made regard.
ing the Northern Pacific country.
vrs q ma .,.. ..