The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-07
MvALLING THE BONANzAs.
A FARM THAT Is TO BE MADE TO YIELD A
MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.


This morning | paid visit to the Dial.
rymple farm, situated eighteen miles west
OF Fargo, D. 7. The estate embraces 100.
600 acres, owned by Mr., Dalrymple Of ST.
Paul. Gen. Geo. W. Cass of New York, d.
J.. Cheney OF Boston, and J. d. Grandin of
Pennsylvania. The Grandin Division, con-
sisting Of 10000 acres, Is situated on Goose
river, thirty miles south Of Fargo, and apart
from the other divisions. So far operations
on the farm have been confined chiefly 10
wheat growing The farm is managed
with something OF the system that is en-
ployed in directing the operations of On
army 1t is cut up into divisions of 1000
acres each, and these are managed by ex
perlenced superintendent and foremen, the
finances OF each division being brought un.
der regular and separate system OF book
keeping, Mr. Daiymple is generally man
ager Of the whole.
The area OF ground under crop this year
Is $4,000 acr. s. Next year the area will be
increased TO 10000 acres. The spring
wheat was sown the latter part Of March
and tore part OF April The first of it was
cut July rs, and twelve days after that the
work OF the reporters had been finished,
and miles upon miles Of wheat shocks Gov
cred the plains In bringing this wheat
crop to perfection, Mr.. Dalrymple has en-
ployed nearly 500 head Of horses and
mules, 80 broadcast 81 feet seed sewers.
100 l4-inch plows, 200 steel pointed hsr-
rows, 10 40-inch cylinder lhreshers and
cleaners, ~ 4O'horse power steam engines,
~ self binding reapers, and force of about
400 men. These 50 machines, when in mo
ton, cut and bound with wire 1000 large
bundles every minute.
Threshing was begun few days ago,
and, as stood in the midst of this stubble
plain to-day, and watched the smoke curl
ing up from steam machines miles upon
miles away, and fancied that they looked as
vessels look when steamng far out over the
lake in front OF Chicago, thought TO my.
self what magnificent desert" this is
Near by me was superintendent who was
talking through telephone with another
superintendent some three miles away.
Near him sat an operator who was sending
dispatch to another part of the farm
Mr.. Dalrymple said that he expected the
yield to average twenty-five bushels per
acre, which would give total of $4,000
bushels, worth just that many thousand
dollars, two.thirds Of which would be net
profit. 1t is all No. wheat, and Mr.. Dial.
rymple said he had just declined an offer
by the Millers' Association of Mime apolis
OF 81 cents per bushel for $4,000 bushels
He is shipping from his farm to Duluth,
and thence to New York twenty cars Of
wheat every day.
My establishment at what had seen was
nothing compared with that which eY.
perienced upon being told by Mr.. Dalrym-
pie that it was his purpose to carry forward
the development Of his farm until he shall
have put 1000 acres under the plough and
brought his yearly production of wheat up
to round million bushels. Dalrymple's Is
not the only large farm hereabouts. There
are at lasst half dozen others which nun
Der from 1000 to 1000 &C, es under cultiva.
ton. The number of farms embracing
from 100 to 400 acres under cultivation Is !
very large. Chicago Times