The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-11-10
The largest Farm in the Word.

contaiuin9 10000 acres. A oorres-
pondsut OF the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Ausust l3, thus reports an iuterview W
with Mr.. Dalrymple
We asked for Mr.. Dairy mple, aud
he came down from some room
above slender. quiet looking mau,
with pen behinl his ear, whom y on
would JUICE TO be school teacher
or clergyman at sight. His hand:
were soft and whi,e--more accus
toned to the book or pen than the
plow-and bis face, we're il not COW
cred by beard, aud not so much
burnei'as mine. He met us cordi.
ally invited US TO spend the day aud
dine, aud suggested that he would
have team hitched up to drive us
over "the place"
In the meantime I asked him a
few questions. The first one was
as to the yield this year.
ut was late spring" said Mr.
Dalrymple. "At the time when we
are usually putting iu a crop the
place for miles aud miles around
hero was covered with water from
the melted snow, aud you could
have sailed a boat over field where
now there is wheat that will yield. I
feared at one time that the crop
would be a failure, but am very
positive now that the average yicll
par acre will not be below twenty
bushels
"Have you sold your wheat ?"
soar plan il different from the
ordinary method. We are sending
about three train loals q day to
Duluth"
"iow many bushels is that ?"
"Abont 80, 900 bushels. We have
a vessel at Duluth every two days
and send it to Buffalo, where il is
sold on arrival NJ market pric,."
"What is that ~
"The price to day." said Mr.
Dalrpmole, consulting telegram,
"is sl.27 at Buffalo. Frcights are
about 27 cents, SO it nets us abJut
81 bushel."
What will your crop amount to-
~ am expectiog abJIt 6)l,0))
bushels. Besi les this We have ab out
%, 900 bushels Of oats, which we
keep for our stock"
"Do yon keep stock enough to eat
up 10000 bushels of oats p
MIR. palrymple smilel pleasantly
and remarked that eight hundred
horses and mules eat up a good
many oats.
"How much does your crop cost
you I"
at costs us about SO an acre to
produce crop when We use onr own
stock and pay our men by the
month, bat when we hire men and
teams by the day, it costs US about
SO an acre."
What do you pay your men 7"
"we pay $50 a month for regular
hands aud 50 per day for extra hands
during harvest"
what machinery have you going
to. day 7"
1.-Two hundred self.biuding har-
vesters and thirty steam thrashers
These 200 harvesters cut an average
Of 2 800 acres day, and the thresh-
ers turn ont about 80, 900 bushels a
day. AS fast as il is thrashed we
bag the wheat, cart it over there to
the cars. empty the sacks and send
away three trains loads daily"
"Where do you keep yeur mon y
IF you had been here at 8 O'Clock
this morning you could have seen
800 men at breakfast. We keep
forty cooks"
Mr.. Dalrymple explained at length
how this monstrous business is con-
Quoted. The $4,000 acres under
cultivation are divided into five di-
visions OF 5000 acres each, under
superintendents, who are responsible
directly to Mr.. Dalrymple, the CON.
mandersins schief. Each Of these re-
giments is divided again into battal-
ions, with Q foreman or major. who
has charge Of 1000 acres. Under
him are three companies, each hav.
ing captain aud oaltivstiug . SEQ.
ton which is $40 acres Of land, Each
superintendent plants bis crop aai
harvests it, reporting from time to
time 10 Mr.. Dalrymple, who directs
and oversees the whole, but spends
the greatest part Of his time at
the Office. planning aud calculating