Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-19
Farming i'm Dakota.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Eyes. sir" resumed the Dakota man. as the
crowd Of agriculturists drew back from the bar
and seated themselves around a little table
Ives. sir. we do things on rather stable scale
I've seen man on one of our big farms start
out in the spring and pillow a straight furrow
until Iall. Then he turned round and harvested
back
Garry his grub with him?" asked Brooklyn
farmer who raises eabbages on the outskirts
mo. sir. They follow him up with a steam
hotel and have relays of men to change plows
for him. We have some big farms up there.
gentlemen. A friend of mine owned one on
which he had to give mortgage and pledge
YOU my word, the mortgage was due on one end
before they could get it recorded at the other
You see it was laid off in counties"
There was murInur Of establishment and the
Dakota man continued
81 got letter from a man who lives in my
orchard Just before left home, and it had been
three weeks getting to the dwelling house.
though it travelled day and night
g Distances are pretty wide up there, amt
they?" inquired New Utrecht agriculturlst
- Reasonably. reasonably" replied the Dakota
man. And the worst of it u.s. it breaks up fam
lies SO. Two years ago saw whole family
Frustrated with grief Women yelling children
bowling. and dogs barking. One of my men
had his camp truck packed on seven four-mule
teams and he was around bidding everybody
good-by.''
Where was he going ?" asked Gravesend
man.
He was going halfway across the farm to
feed the pigs" replied the Dakota man.
did he ever get back to his family %
g 1t isn't time for him yet returned the Da-
kota gentleman. Up there we send young
married couples to milk the cows, and their
children bring home the milk"
" l understand you have fine mines up that
way" ventureda Jamaica turnip-planter.
Yes. but we only use the quartz for fencing"
said the Dakota man, testing the blade of his
knife with his thumb, preparatory to whetting
it on his boot. :. 1t won't pay to crush it. be-
| cause we can make more money on wheat put
in $500 townships of wheat last spring."
How many acres would that be?"
I'VE don't count by acres. We count by
townships and counties. My yield was
500. 600, GOO on wheat alone, and I'm thinking of
season.
:" How do you get the help for such extensive
operations" asked the New Utrecht man.
"Oh, labor is cheap" replied the Dakota man..
You can get all you want for from $50 to SAT
day. In fact. never paid over $3S"
SIS land cheap"
''No. lands high Not that it costs ANYTHING.
for it don't; but under the laws of the territory
you have got to take so much or none. l wasin
luck. Had a friend at YanktOn who got a bill
through the legislature allowing me to take
400. 900 square miles, which is the smallest farm
there, though it is"
Look here, said the barkeeper. as the east
ern husbandmen strolled out in bunch to con-
slider the last statement. els all this thing
you've been telling true?"
Certainly" responded the western man; sat
least it is modification of what / saw in
Dakota paper that was wrapped around a pair
of shoes last night. l didn't dare put it as
strong as the paper did, for no one would be-
lieve it. You can slate that last round of
drinks and I'll pay in the morning. / live right
here on Myrtle avenue"