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Farming in Dakota.
BROOKLYN Eagle.

brooklyn Eagle
"Des, sir" resumed the
Dakota man, as the crowd OF
agnculturists drew back from
the bar and seated themselves
around a little table, Eyes, sir,
we do things on rather asIzable
scale. Nv seen a man on one
of our big farms start out in the
spring and pillow a straight fur
row until fall. Then he turned
round and harvested back"
Garry his grub with him?"
asked a Brooklyn farmer, who
raised cabbage on the out
skirts.
mo, sir. They follow him
mp 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 a NOR
tgage, and / pledge you my
word, the mortgage was due on
one end before they could get
it recorded at the other. You
see if was laid off counties. ="
There was murmur of as
constituent, and the Dakota
man continued:
81 got a letter from a man
who lives in my orchard, just
before l left home, and it had
been three weeks getting to the
dwelling house, though it tray-
elled day and night"
distances are pretty wide up
there, amt they7" inquired a
New Utrecht agriculturist.
Reasonably, reasonably, F"
replied the Dakota man. And
the worst of it is, it breaks up
families so. Twn years ago l
saw a 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 a Gravesend man,
"fie was going half way
across the farm to feed the
pigs" replied the Dakota man.
did he ever get back to his
family p
"Itisn't time for him yet" re-
turned the Dakota gentleman.
"Up there we send young mar
ried couples to milk the COWS,
and their children bring home
the milk"
81 understand you have fine
mines up that way" ventured
a Jamaica turnip planter.
Eyes, but we only use the
quartz for. fencing" said the
Dakota man, testing the Blade
fhis knife with his thumb, pre-
paratory to..whetting it on his
boot. at wouldn't pay to
crush it, becausk we can make
more money on wheat. | put
in 5000 townships of wheat last
spring"
"How many acres would that
be ?"
"We don't count by acres,
We count by townships and
counties. My yield was $685.
100000 on wheat alone. and
I'm thinking of breaking up
from eighty to a hundred more
counties next season"
"How do you get the help
for such extensive operations ?"
asked the New Utrecht man.
Obi labor is cheap" replied
the Dakota man. "You can
get all you want for from SAG
to S47 a day. In fact, never
paid over S3s."
as land cheap y
mo, land is high. Not that
it costs anything. for it don't;
but under the laws OF the ter
ritory you have got to take so
much or none. / was in luck.
Had a friend at Yankton who
got a bill through the legisla-
tuTe, allowing me 10 take 24o,-
900 square miles, which is the
smallest farm there, though it
is
Look here" said the bar
keeper, as the eastern husband
men staolled out in a bunch to
consider the last statement. as
all this thing you've been telling
true7p
Certainly" responded the
Western man; ''at least it is a
modification of what / saw in a
Dakota paper that was wrapped
1round a pair of shoes last
night. ! didn't dare to put it as
strong as the paper did, for no
one would believe it. You can
slate that last round of drinks
md I'll pay in the morning II
i've right here on Myrtle aYen-