The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-09-01
Inddler or farrier make them during the

saddler or farrier make them during the
night, =,
The same routine is followed at seed
ing time and during harvest. The self
binting harvesters throw the bundles OF
ripe gram upon the ground, where they
are picked up and placed in large shocks
to await the wagons, which transport
them to thresheIs, which are alwars plt
ced as Clo7ely as possible to the cars. Al
ter thFeshing, the straw is Carted away
and burned. ONO rug aa"
II sounds very large, but 1t ia never.
theless fact, that the plows and har-
vesters regularly made trip four miles
long without stopping. A fuTrow eight
miles in length Is considered q very fair
mornings work, but ten miles is moth
ng FOX an afternoons diversion. a
As near the center of the farm as is
convenient storehonse is placed, In
charge Of q Commissary and bookkeeper.
Each day the superintendent of diVis
ion issues acquisitions for supplies Of
seed, Or food, or machinery, and these
are served upon the storekeer, who keeps
double entry set Of ledgers for each,
and at the end Of each days threshiDg
the crop returns are made TO Mr. Dsl-
rymple, 80 that he can, at any time, by
examining the books ascertain the ex.
penses Of every division and the Cropit
has produced.
The profits can thus be very closely
estimated, and an experienced man can
guess within few thousar d bush l. l
the entire crop il he knows the yield
any psrticularpsection.
This year it is expected that the 10000
acres will produce 900 600 bushels of
grain. The cost of production averages
81 an acre, or $4,000. The whC at is
sold at an average net price Of ST bush
ell; there efore the profit of Mr.. Dalrym
ple's little garden in 1881, which is said
to be poor year, will be the difference
between $4,000 and 100000, or the
trife of 100000; more than 200 per cent
upon the entire investment.
No wonder Mr.. Dalrymple smiled
when l asked him If he wanted to sell
his "place."
There will be natural inquiry in this
connection as to why steam is not used
instead Of horse power. l asked Mr..
Dalrymple. He said:
"We have experimental with steam,
but have not found it practicable except
in the way of stationary engines; and
again, oats are cheaper than fuel. Wood
is very scarce, coal costs US from $40 to
$l3 ton, whereas our oats costs us praC.
tiCally nothing. We SOW and reap our
oats between times, when the men and
stock otherwise would be idle. The cost
Of horses and mules is not greater than
the price of machinery; the wear and
tear is less, and during the winter time
we send our en- and horses to the lum.
ber regions, where they more than pay
for themselves"
While the Dslrymple farm is the lar.
gest, it is also the pioneer of This won.
derful wheat country. When Mr.. DAl-
rymple came here, as he told me, there
was not an acre ofplowed land between
Fargo and Bismarck, a distance of more
than two hundred miles. The first crop
was harvested in 1874, when the entire
product Of Dakota was but 250 900 bush
els. This year a single county, Cass, of
which Fargo is the capital, estimating an
average crop of 20 bushels to the acre,
will produce over 100000 bushels
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