The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-09-08
GRAIN GALORE.
"This Wheat Bye-and-Bye. "

| largest piece OF territory ever cultl-
vated under the direction of a single
man. AS far as the eye could reach,
north, south, east or west, there was
nothing visible but the bluest OF
blue sky; the reddest of red barn 8,
the great awkward looking threshers
with their smoke begrimed engines
beside them, the whirring harves-
ters and miles after miles of wheat,
We asked for Mr.. Dalrymple, and
he came down from some room
above, a slender. quiet looking man
with pen behind his ear, whom you
would judge to be a schoolmaster or
a clergyman at sight. His hands
were soft and white-more accus-
toned to the book or the pen than
the plow-ard his face, where it was
not covered with beard, was not
burned so much as mine. He met
US cordially, invited us to spend the
day and dine, and suggested that he
would have a team hitched up to
drive US oyer "the place."
! noticed he always called it "the
place"
In the meantime I asked him q
few questions. The first one was as
TO the yield this year
at was late last spring." said Mr..
Dalrymple. "At the time when we
were usually putting in a crop the
place for miles around here was COW
cred with water from the melted
snow, and you could have sailed q
boat over the field where now there
is wheat that will yield thirty bush
els to the acre. l feared at one time
that the crop would be failure, but
am very positive now that the aver
age per acre will not be below twen-
tv bushels"
"Have you sold your wheatT
sour plsn is different from the or
dinary method. We are sending
about three car loads a day to Du-
Iuth."
How many bushels is thatT'
about 10000 bushels. We load
a vessel al Duluth every two DAYS
and send it to Buffalo. where it is
sold on its arrival at the market
price,"
"What is thatP'
"The price to day." said Mr.. Dal-
rymple, consulting his telegram, sis
81 27 at Buffalo. Freights are about
twenty-seven cents, so it nets US
about 3l bushel.'
"WLat viii your crop amount to 2"
"I am expecting about 600. 900
bushels. Besides that we have 80,
900 bushels Of oats, which We keep
for our stock"
"Do you keep stock enough to eat
up 10000 bushels OF oatsF"
Mr.. Dalrymple smiled pleasantly
and remarked that 500 horses and
mules ate up good many oats.
aHoW much does your crop costp
"It costs us sbont 50 an acre to
produce crop when we use our own
stock and pay our men by the
month, but when we hire men and
teams by the day it costs US about
SIS an scFe,"
"What dc you pay yoHr men"
ave pay $50 a month for regular
hands and So day for extra hands
during harvest
"What amount Of machinery have
you going to-day"
Two hundred self binding har
vesters and thirty steam threshers.
These two hundred harvesters cut
an average Of $500 acres a day, and
the thres hers turn out about 10000
bushels . day" AS fast as it is
threshed we bag the wheat, cart it
over there to the cars, empty the
sacks and send away three train
loads daily"
"Where do you keep your men ?
sIf you had been here at 5 O'Clock
this morning you could have seen
SOC Hen st breakfast. We keep
quite hotel with forty COOKS
Mr.. Dalrymple explained at length
how this enormous business is con
Quoted. The 10000 acres under
cultivation are divided into five di-
visions of 5000 acres each, under
superlnteldents, Who gre RESPONSE
bile directly to Mr.. Qalrymple, the
commander r-in-chlef. Each of these
regiments are divided into battal
ions, with a foreman or major, who
has charge of 1000 acres. Onder
him are three companies, each hav
ing a captain, and cultivating a sec
tion, which is $40 acreg of land.
Each superintendent plants his
o-I ~ ponnrfipc from
time to time to Mr.. Dalrymple, who
directs and oversees the whole, but
spends the greater part of his time
at the office planning and calculating
for the best results from the small
est outlay. The superintendents
are responsible for the good order
of theiF men, stock and machinery,
and there is q deSided rivalry be-
tween them as to which can pro-
duce the biggest crop.
When the blowing commences IN
the spring the men go out in gangs.
each taking GAO acres, under the di-
reotion ei & foreman, who rides
along on horseback to see bhs work
is done properly. Everything is
done il military style. 1t Is bat
terry of plows, instead of artillery,
and before starting they all draw up
in line and are thoroughly inspected
by the foreman and machinist, To see
that they are in good order. The
plows are al double and are drawn
by four horses. At the word Of the
captain they start, and go round
field of GAO acres, which is exactly
four miles in distance, ten or twelve
horses abreast. Al the end OF the
furrow, eight mica, the p!ows are
left 10 the soil, the men mount their
horses and ride to headquarters for
dinner. After the horses are fed
they remount, return TO the plows
ald go around the GAO acres two or
three times more before supper
time. At the close of the day the
horses, plows and harness are in
spected again, and if any repairs are
needed, the blacksmith, saddler and
fsrrier make them during the night
The same routine Is fol owed at
seeding time and during the harvest.
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