Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-09-28
The Great Dakota Farm.

A Chicago Times correspondent
writes from Fargo under date of Sept. .
rs follows;
This morning l paid n visit to the
Dalrymple farm, situated Is miles west
Of Fargo. The estate embraces 100,O 900
acres, owned by Mr.. Dalrymple of St.
Paul, Gen. Geo. w. CaSs of New York,
B. p. Cheney of Boston, and j. l..
Grandin of Pennsylvania. The Grandin
division, consisting of 10000 acres, is
situated on Goose River, 80 miles south
of Fargo, and apart from the other divi-
sions. So far operations on the farm
have been confined chiefly to wheat
growing, The farm is managed with
something of the system hat is employ
ed in directing the operations of an
army. 1t is cut up into divisions of
1000 acres each, and these are manag-
ed by experienced superintendent and
foremen, the finances of each division
being brought under a regular aud sep
arate system of bookkeeping. Mr..
Dalrymple is general manager of the
whole.
The area of ground under crop this
year is $1,000 acres. Next year the area
will be increased to $1,000 acres. The
spring wheat was sown the latter part of
March and the fore part of April. The
first of ii was cut July %, and twelve
days after that the work of the reapers
had been finished, and miles upon miles
of wheat shocks covered the plains. In
bringing this crop to perfection, Mr..
Dalrymple has employed nearly 800
head of horses and mules, so broadcast
S5-feet seed sewers, 100 l4-inch plows,
200 Steel-pointed harrows, 10 40-inch
cylinder thresher5 and cleaners, - 10
horse power steam engines, so self-bind-
ing reapers, and a force of about 400
men. These SO machines, when in mo-
ton, cut and bound with wire 1000
large bundles every minute.
Threshing IA begun a few days ago,
and, as stood in the midst of this stub
bic plain to-day, and watched the smoke
curling up from the steam machines
miles upon miles away, and fancied that
they looked as vessels look when steam.
ing far out over the lake in front of Chi
cago, | thought to myself what a mag
niticent "desert " this is! Near by me
was a superintendent who was talking
through a telephone with another SUI
perintendent some three miles away.
Near him sat an operator, who was
sending Il dispatch to another part of
the farm.
Mr.. Dalrymple said that he expected
the yield to average Is bushels per acre,
which would give a total of 325, 900
bushels, worth just that many thousand
dollars, two-thirds of which would be
net profit. It is all No. l wheat, and
Mr.. Dalrymple said he had Just de-
clined an offer by the Millers' Associa-
ton of Minneapolis of 80 cents per
bushel for $4,000 bushels. He is ship
ping from his farm to Duluth, and
thence to New York, 20 cars of wheat
every day.
My establishment at what | had seer
was nothing compared with that which
| experienced upon being told by Mr..
Dalrymple that it was his purpose to
carry forward the development of his
farm until he shall have put 10000 acres
under the pillow and brought his yearly
production of wheat up to a round mil
lion bushels. Dalrymple's is not the
only large farm hereabouts. There is
at least a half dozen others which num-
Der from 1000 to 1900 acres under cul-
tivation. The number of farms en-
bracing from 100 to 400 acres under cul-
t~iVation is very large.