Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-22
ob.teandoommis.ioners Notices .ss.oooach.

A Bio FARM IN DAKoTA.-Mr. John
w. Taylor has returned from an extended
trip north-westward, having visited St.
Paul, going thence to Fargo, on the Red
river of the north, in company with Cen
eral Manager Villas, Of the South Shore
freight line, w. II. Hogan of Chicago, and
G. ID. Parker of st. Paul, each local agents
of the same line. These gentlemen were
on II tour of inspection as well rs pleasure,
looking after the wheat and oat crops that
are now being harvested, and which will
soon be seeking a market. At Fargo,
three hundred miles northwest of St. Paul,
they met the Hon. II. B. Payne, one of the
recent democratic candidates for president,
and the Messrs. Hickox and Mr.. Baldwin,
all of Cleveland. The entire party, on
invitation, visited the famous Dalrymple
farm, twenty-five miles west of Fargo,
and took mental note of the largest culti-
vated farm on the western continent. 1t
contains thirty-six thousand acres under
plow, twenty -four thousand of which is
now in wheat and twelve thousand in oats.
1t was grand sight, and we'll it might
challenge the admiration of visitors. Last
Monday morning the several superintend-
ents of divisions put the reapers to work
cutting the wheat. There were one hun
dred and twenty-five Of these-one hun
dred and twenty-five reapcrs on single
farm!
Mr.. Dalyrmple manages his farm on
strict business principles, his harvest work
being performed on forty days contract
with each workman at $l75 per day, he
boarding them. The harvesters all board
at large dining halls prepared expressly
for the Dalyrmple family. Each reaper is
operated by three horses or mules. There
are three hundred and seventy-five of
them on these reapers, and the click of
the sickle is music to the farmers ears.
When shocked and sufficiently dried, both
wheat and oats are threshed from the stub
BILE and without stacking. The threshers
are operated by steam, and like all other
kinds of work done here, it is performed
with thorough system. The estimated
yield by harvesters and proprietor is about
eighteen bushels of wheat to the acre, and
ninety bushels of oats. The wheat product
of this one farm foots up to four hundred
thirty-two thousond bushels-about niue
hundred Car loads, or forty-five train loads
of twenty cars each. This immense crop
will 90 to the seaboard by way of the
lakes, through Canada and the Erie canal,
and is expected to net sixty cents per
bushel at the farm.
Mr.. Taylor says that a large emigration
is going into that section, but it is his
deliberate judgment that the soil of the
valley will not long endure the successive
cropping to which it is being subjected.
He thinks, owing to the thin alluvial sur
face, and the gravel and sand subsoil, that
il il far lass durahle than the soil of Iowa
and that settlers will ultimately be disap-
pointed. 1t is delightful country, and
very inviting to the eye. The Northern
Pacific railroad now extends one hundred
miles beyond Bismarck, and is going
steadily westward. The road is an excel,
lent one declared the best new road
known by the railroad officers of the party
l-Dubuque (LoWa) Times, AugwSt ID.