The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-07
lola REGISTER Supplement
FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1882,
FARMING IN DAKOTA.

w ~ SA 70 A6to UICw U6C
from the bar and seated themselye
around little table, eyes, SIR, we d
things on 3 rather sizable scale. w
seen man on one of our big farms star
out in the spring and pillow a straigh
furrow until fall. Then be turned aroun,
and harvested back.
"Carry his grub With him ?' asked
Brooklyn farmer, who raises cabbages OF
the outskirts.
mo, sir. They follow him up with
steam hotel and have always relays 0
men to change plows for him. We hav,
seen big farms up there, gentlemen. A
friend Of mine owned one on which b,
had to give 9 mortgage, and l pledge YOU
on my word, the mortgage was due or
one end before they could get lit recorded
atthe other. You see it was laid off in
counties"
There was o murmur of establishment
and the Dakota man continued.
II gotta letter from man who lives
in my orchard. just before left home,
and he had been three weeks getting to
the dwelling house, though he travelled
day and night"
Distances are pretty wide up there,
amt theyT inquired New Utretcht
agriculturist.
Reasonably, reasonably" replied the
Dakota man. ''And the worst of it is.
it breaks up families so. Two years ago
! saw whole families Frustrated with
grief Women yelling, children bowling
and dogs barking. One of my men had
bis camp truck packed on seven four
mule teams and he was around bidding
everybody goodbye"
"Where was he going?" asked Grave.
send man.
"He was going half way across the
farm to feed the pigs" replied the Da-
kota man.
"Did be ever get back to his family?'
1T isn't time for him yet" returned
the Dakota gentleman. Up there we
send young married couples to milk the
cows. and their children bring home the
milk"
Il understand you have mines up
that way" ventured q Jamaica turnin
planter.
YES, but We only use quartz for
fencing" said the Dakota man, testing
the blades of his knife with his thumb,
preparatory to whetting it on his boot.
1T wouldn't pay to crush it, because
we can make more on wheat. put in
eighty-niae hundred townships of wheat
last spring"
"How many acres would that be-"
1--WE don't count by acres. We count
by townships and counties. NY yield
Was sea, 000, 900 on wheat alone, and Pm
thinking of breaking up from eighty to
2 hundred more counties next season."
"How do you get the help for such ex
tensive operations?" asked the New
Utretcht man.
"Oh, labor is cheap" replied the Da-
kota man. "You can get all you want
for from 500 to 81 a day. In fact, Il
pever paid over s4s.
"Is land oheap"
"No, land is high. Not that it costs
for it don't; but under the
laws of the Territory you have got to
take so much or none. I was in luck.
I had friend in Yankton who got a
pill through the Legislature, allowing me
10000 square miles, which is the small.
est farm there, though it is" ;
'Look here" said the bar-keeper, as
the Eastern husbandmeu strolled out to
consider The statement" is this thing
you've been telling true?'
Certainly" responded the Western
man; rat least it is modification of what
I saw in Dakota paper that was wrap
ped around a pair of shoes last night.
don't dare to put itas strong as the pa
per did, for no one would believe it.
You can slate that last round of drinks
md I'll pay in the morning ! live right
,ere on Myrtle avenue. - Brooklyn
Eagle.
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