St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-04
What the West is Doing, and How She
Does it.
From the Pioneer Press.

FARGO, Aug. 12-The wonderful stO.
ry of producing wheat in 1878 in north.
ern Dakota is about completed, anG
your readers in Minnesota, Iowa and
| Wisconsin, whose crops have proved d
failure, may derive some comfort from
reading it. Although we have already
many fields of wheat, embracing only
| from 40 to 1000 acres each and up
wards, in this Red river valley, whose
virgin soil was but recently upturned,
which have yielded their due proper
ton, yet to show what has just been ac-
complished upon a large scale which
can be indefinitely extended, | send
you the result thus far attained of the
enterprise managed bv Mr.. Oliver DIAL
rymple, who has just finished cutting
THIRTEEN THOUSAND ACRES OF WHEAT,
which he is now satisfied beyond con-
lecture has yielded at least three hun
dred thousand bushels, and probably
twenty-five bushels per acre. This i'm
menSe area of wheat has been cut and
shocked i'll only twelve days, or some
thing over thousand acres per day.
To-day threshing will commence which
will take twenty-tOur more days, max
ing thirty-siX days to complete the har-
vest. On Saturday last Mr.. DalrympIe
tested the wheat and its yield in one of
his threshers, in the presence of two
gentlemen representing respectively the
boards of trade of Chicago and Phila-
delphia, and it turned out two bushels
and four quarts Il minute, or about 1913
bushels an hour, indicating itch field
of No. wheat.
Mr.. Dalrymple has employed upon
these $4,000 acres 300 men, $50 horses
and ~ self-binders, and will use to COM
plete the harvest
FIFTEEN STEAM THREsHERs,
which will thresh 1000 bushels per d;,y
each. When the harvest is completed
he will Immediately commence blowing
the stubles, and in another season in
tends To have 10000 acres under cult
walton. Mr.. Dalrymple, who manages
this immense farming operation, and
who OWNS 0ne-half interest in the land
and crops, has thus demonstrated that
upon these broad and fertile prairies the
time is not far distant when 200, 900
bushels of wheat will be successfully
raised under one management by the
of the proper intelligence,
and ii system such as has been adopted
by him. This system is based on sim
pie business principles, and
CONDUCTED WITH MILITARY PRECISION.
A complete set of books and accounts
is kept as in well organized bank, by
which the exact cost of the expendi-
lures, including labor and improve
ments, is shown at Il glance. The land
is set apart in divisions of two thou
sand acres each, and numbered from
one upwards, and each division is des-
ignated by its proper number. Upon
each of these divisions there are the re-
qnisite buildings, consisting of house
for the superintendent, boarding house
for the men, stable for sixty-five horses,
three stories high, 6Ox65 feet; granery
same size one agricultural hall for
storing farm machinery; one black
smith shop, and necessary outhouses.
Each division, besides the allotted num-
Der OF men, has Il superintendent aud
foreman, who, under the direction of
the manager, execute the work in hand
with the exactness and regularity of the
best machine upon the ground.