The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-10
a nloated Landholder.

rFa,potD. u. ] correspondence Chicago Times.1
This morning paid a visit to the Dali
rvmple farm. situated eighteen miles west
nj Fargo. The estate embraces one hum
dred thousand acres. owned by Mr. Dali
rvmnle. of ST. Paul; General George W..
Cass. OF New York B. P. Cheney, OF Bos-
ton: and J. L.. Grandin, OF PennSylVanla.
The Grandin division, consisting OF forty
thousand acres, Is situated on Goose river,
thirty miles south OF Fargo, and apart
from the other divisions. So Tar operaalons
on this farm have been confined emery 70
wheat-growing. In the eastern States an W,
riculturist who can harvest % Touna tnousanu
bushels OF grain in season is u Doss III
bucolic pursuits. But here, In country so
new that it is not yet fenced IN on one SIDE,
man who can't count his Whcat-shocks ~:
the ten thousand is regarded as beginner
and a novice in farming. The Dalrymple
farm is accommodated by both railroad ana
steamboat facilities. This farm is managed
with something Of the system that is en-
ployed in directing the operations OF an
army. 1t is cut up into divisions Of 1000
acres each, and these are managed by eXpe-
rienced superintendent and foremen, the
finances Of each division being brought IN
der regular and separate system OF oook::
keeping. DIR. DalrYmple Is general man
ager of the whole.
The area Of ground under crop this year
is $4,000 acres; next year the area will be
increased to 10000 acres. The spring-Wheat
was sewn the latter part OF March and the
fore part OF April. The first Of it was cut
July 25th, and twelve days after that the
work of the reapers had been finished, and
miles 1lpon miles OF wheat-shocks covered
the plains. In bringing this crop to per-
lection MIR. DaIrymple has employed nearly
500 head OF horses and mules. 80 broad
cast 84-feet seed-soWers, 100 14-inch
pIousbs, 200 steel-pointed harrows, Is 40
ineh-cyIinder threshers and cleaners, Is 10
horsepower steam-engines, 80 self-binding
reapers. aud force OF about 400 men.
These so machine when in motion, cut
and bound with wire 1000 large bundles
every minute.
Threshing commenced few days ago,
and as / stood in the midst OF this stubDle
plain to-day and watched the smoke curling
up from steam-machines miles upon miles
away, and fancied that they looked as vessels
look when steaming far out over the lake in
front Of Chicago, thought to myself, what
a magnificent desert" this is! Near by
me was superintendent, who was talking
through telephone with another superin-
tendent some three miles away. Near him
sat an operator, who was sending dispatch
to another part OF the farm. l asked Mr..
Dalrymple II he could form any idea Of what
his crop of wheat would yield in bushels. He
replied that he expected the yield to average
twenty-five bushels per acre, which would
give a total of three hundred and twenty
i've thousand bushels, worth just that many
dollars. two thirds Of which would
be net profit. 1t is all No. wheat, and Mr..
Dalrymple said he had just declined an Of
fer by the Millers' Association OF Minneap-
oils OF ninety-two cents per bushel for
eighty thousand bushels. He is now ship
ping from his farm to Duluth, and thence
to New York, twenty cars Of wheat every
day.
NIy establishment at what I had seen was
nothing compared with that which eXpe-
rienced upon being told by Mr.. Dalrymple
that it was his purpose to carry forward the
development OF his farm until he shall have
put forty thousand acres under the plough
and brought bis yearly production of wheat
up to round million bushels. After that
he will devote the remainder Of his lands
to stock growing uses. Dalrymple's is not
the only large farm hereabouts. There are
at least half-dozen others which number
from one thousand TO two thousand acres
under cultivation. The number OF farms
from one hundred to four hun
dred acres under cultivation is very large.