The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-01-13
Farming In Dakota.

eyes sir" resumed the Dakota man,
as the crowd of agriculturists drew
back from the bar and seated them
selves around little table, "ycs sir,
we do things on rather stable scale.
Pve seen a man on one of our big farms
start out in the spring and pillow a
straight furrow until fall. Then he
turned round and harvested back"
"Carry his grub with him?" asked
q Brooklyn farmer, who raises cabbages
on the outskirts.
"No sir. They follow him up with
steam hotel and have relays of men
to change plows with him. We have
some big farms up there, gentlemen,
A friend of mine owned ono on which
he had to give mortgage was due on
one end before they could get it record.
ed at the other. You see it was laid of
in countless"
There was murmur of astonish.
ment, and the Dakota man continued:
81 got q letter from man who lives
in my orchard, just before l left home,
and 1t had been three week getting to
the dwelling-house, although it had
travelled day and night"
"Distances are pretty wide up there,
amt theyr' inquil cd a New Utrecht
agriculturist.
REASONABLY, reasonably" replied
the Dekota man. "And the worst of il
is it breaks up families so. Two years
ago saw q whole families prostrated
with grief. Women yelling, children
bowling, and dogs barking. One of
my mon had his camp truck packed on
seven four-mule teams, and he was
around bidding everybody goodbye"
"Wherc was he goingW asked a
Gravesened man.
"He was going half way across the
farm to feed the pigs" replied the
Dakota gentleman. a.f
"Did he ever get back 10 his family P"
at isn't time for him yet" returned
the Dakota gentleman. cup there we
send young married couples to milk the
cows, and their children bring home
the milk"
81 understand that you have mines
up that way" ventured Jamaica tpr.
nip planter. rrt.rTr
"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 1t on his
boot. at won't pay to crush it, because
we can make more money on wheat.
put In eighty-nine hundred townships
of wheat last spring." =
"How many acres would that be?"
ave don't count by acres. We count
by townships and counties. Ny Yield
was sos, 900 900 on wheat alone, and
am thinking of breaking up from eighty
to hundred more counties next sea-
son."
GLOW DO you get the help for such
extensive operationsr asked the New
Utrecht man.
ooh, labor is cheap" replied the
Dakota man. You can get all YOU
want for from S29 to S47 a day. In
fact l never paid over $685." 6.
sis land cheapp 49, ~
mo, land is high. Not that It costa
anything, for it don't; but under The
laws Of the Territory you have got to
take SO much or none. was in Incl.
j had friend at Yankton who GOT n
bill through the Legislature allowing
mo to take 420, 900 square miles, which
Is the smallest farm there, though it
is" -
"Look here" said the barkeeper. as
the Eastern husbandmen strolled ont
in bunch to consider the last state
ment " Is all this thing you've been
telling true?"
Certainly" responded the Western
man; sat least 1t is modification of
what l saw In Dakota paper
that was wrapped around a pair of
shoes last night. didn't dare put Il as
strong as the paper did. for no one
would believe 1t. You can slate that
last round of drinks and Pll pay In the
morning. j live right here In Myrtle
avenue."-[Brooklyn Eagle. d