Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22

| DeQU over HIN he udU DeeN summoned
by the news, and the room was full of
Connor's fellow-workmen.
| "Betrer, Connor?" asked the old man,
kindly.
"a DEAL" said Conner, sits aisy now;
I'll be with her soon. And lock ye, mas
| Their, I've learnt one thing-God is good;
He wouldn't let me bring Nora over to
me, and He's takin' me over to her and
Jamesy, over the river; don't you see it,
and her standin' on the other side to well
come me?"
And with these words Conner stretch
ed out his arms. Perhaps he did see
Nora-Heaven only knows-and then
died.-Erchange
Harvesting on a Large Dakota Farm.
Ride over these fertile fields of Dakota,
ind behold the working of this latest
triumph Of American genius. You are
ed by Oliver Dalrymple are $4,000 acres
in one field. There are other farmers
who cultivate from 100 to 5000. acres.
The railroad train rolls through an oceaa
of grain. Pleasant the music of the rip
ping waves as the west wind sweeps over
the expanse. We encounter a squadron
OF war chariots, not such as once swept
over the Delta of the Nile in pursuit of
an army of fugitive Israelites, not such as
the warriors of Rome were wont to drive,
with glittering knives projecting from
the ankles to NOW a swath through the
ranks of an enemy, to drench the ground
with blood, to cut down the human race,
as if men were noxious weeds, but chart
DTS of peace, doing the work of human
hands tor the sustenance of men. There
are twenty-five OF them in this one bri-
gale of the grand army of lis, under the
marshalsh1p of this Dakota farmer. A
superintendent upon superb horse, like
brigadier directing his forces, rides
along the line, accompanied by his staff
of two on horseback. They are fully
armed and equipped, not with swords,
but the implements of peace-wrenches,
hammers, ehisels. They are surgeons
in waiting, with nuts and screws, or
whatever may be needed.
This brigade OF horse artillery sweeps
by in echolon-in close order, reaper fol-
lowing reaper. There is a sound OF
wheels. The grain disappears an instant,
then reapers; lion arms clasp it, hold it a
moment in their embrace, wind it with
wire, then toss 1t dlsdainfully at your
feet. You hear in the rafting of the
wheels the mechanicism saying to itself,
"See how easy can do it''
An army of ''shockers'' following the
reapers, setting up the bundles to ripen
before threshing. The reaping must Or
dinarily all be done in fifteen days, else
the grain become too ripe. The first
fields harvested, therefore, are cut before
the ripening is complete. Each reaper
averages about fifteen acres per day, and
is drawn by three horses or mules.
The reaping ended, the threshiug be-
gins. Again memory goes back to early
years, to the pounding out of the grain
upon the threshing- floor with the fail
the slow, tedious work Of winter days.
Poets no more will reherse the music Of
the fail. The picture for February in
the old Farmers Almanac is obsolete.
September is the month for threshing,
the thresher doing its 700 bushels per day,
| driven by steam-engine of sixteen
horsepower. Renorseless that sharp
toothed devourer, swallowing its food as
fast as two men can cut the wire bands,
requiring six teams to supply Its de-
mands! And what cataract Of grain
pours from Its spout, faster than two men
can bag 1t!
The latest triumph of invention in this
direction is straw burning engine, uhllz-
ing the stalks of the grain for fuel
The cost of raising wheat per bushel is
from thirty-five to forty cents; the aver
age yield, from twenty to twenty-five
| bushels per acre. The nearness of these
lands to Lake Superior, and the rates es-
tablished by the railroad-fifteen cents
per bushel from any point between Bis
marck and Duluth-give the Dakota
farmers wide margin of profit.
Since the first turrow was turned in
the Red River Valley, in 1870, there has
been no failure OF crops from excessive
rams, blight, mildew, drought, rust OF
other influence of climatology. The
chinchbug has not made its appearance;
the grasshoppers alone have troubled the
farmers, but they have disappeared: and
the fields are smiling with bounty. With
good filth, the farmer may count upon a
net return of from eight to ten dollars pei
acre per annum. The employment OF
capital has accomplished beneficial end
| by demonstrating that the region, instead
of being incapable of settlement, is one
of the fairest sections of the continent
Nor is it wonder that the land-offices
are besieged by emigrants making entries
or that the surveyors find the lands
"squatted' upon before they can survey
them; that hotels are crowded; that or
every hand there is activity. During the
months of May, June, and July, 1873, the
sales of government land were nearly
100000 acres, and the entries for the veal
will probably aggregate 100000, taker
in homestead, pre- compton, and tree
claims. There are other millions of acre:
as fair and fertile, yet to be occupied
e. c. COFFIN, in Harpers Magazine fol
March.