Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-11
THE GATHERED GRAIN.

WARREN, Mimi, Sept. 9.-The Manitoba
sleeper "Anoka,'' afforded the scribe lux
urious accommodations on the
evening Winnipeg train from
st. Paul, and not much of the
midnight oil was wasted in seeking re-
pose. after a most extraordinary week of
labor, including Willard receptions, etc.
Glyndon, the breakfast station by 8
O'Clock in the morning. Stepping from
the car the refreshing, brisk air of more
northern latitude is noticed, and this, as
well as the tempting food, produces keen
appetite. A strole on the plat
form after breakfast, and
a view of the surrounding country reveals
shocks and stacks of grain in all directions
as far as the eye can reach. w. G.
Barnes 5000 &C e farm joining the station
is expected to produce the regular 25
bushels per acre. The train now speeds
on due north, crossing the Buffalo river,
next thelWild Rice, and shortly Ada, county
seat of Norman county, is reached. Forty
miles and we are at Crookston, on the
Red Lake river, county seat of Polk coun-
ty, and a city of between five and six
thousand people. Crooksten has beauti-
full and advantageous location, the Hcity
proper being situated in a belt of heavy
timber, and the Red Lake river circliug
around it on more than three sides.
Crookston bases her prosperity and
future of the rich productive
farming country, the very best in the Red
river valley. The early settlers came
about ten years ago, hence the land in the
Immediate vicinity of Crookston is under
good cultivation. In addition to the agri-
cultural interests, CrookstOn is Literally
supplied with building materials, both of
pine and hard wood timber, accessible
through the Red Lake river and its tribu-
taries.
Another item of material Importance is
q large water power, which is now only in
its first stages OF utilization, by the build
ing of two large Touring mills, but which
must at no distant day furnish the needed
power for many lines of manufacturing,
such as straw paper, furniture, sash door
and blinds, agricultural implements 1t
was only a month ago that Uncle Sam
gave notice that thirteen townships of
government land east of Crookston were
surveyed and open for settlement, and
since that time more than half of these
lands, or in round number over thousand
settlers have availed themselves of the
opportunity to become land owners with
out money and without price.
Judging from general appearances there
are upwards of a hundred buildings
erected at Crookston this season, a large
percentage on what is known as Woodland
addition, which appears to take the lead
as residence property.
Extensive preparations have been made
for the Northwestern exposition" to
be held here from the 18th to the 18th in
elusive.
The next town of any importance north
of Crookston is Warren, county seat of
Marshall county, thirty miles from Crooks
ton and sixty from st. Vincent. 1 intended
to say that Warren is TYPICAL Red river
valley town, but L will modify this and
say the entire Marshall county is not only
typical" but a representative county, the
rapid development of which might with
profit be followed by older counties, and
the secret lies in the simple fact that the
early pioneers-frst settlement made in
1878-were practical business and farm
ers, and TO their credit and the past and
future progress and prosperity
of Marshall county be it said,
they give 20 aid or comfort to
THE BOOMER.
The result IS a healthy, steady, natural
growth of Warren, the chief town in the
county, based on the pre-eminent resources
of the county which are being rapidly i'm
proved. The large two-story brick school
house, now in course of construction, to
cost about $4,000, gives some idea..of the
standard of intellig ence Of the people, and
the two large wheat elevators, each 10000
bushels capacity, and merchant Touring
mill, 200 bushels capacity daily, are mod
ern monuments to No. l hard, of which
it is expected over 100000 bushels will be
marked at Warren from the crop of 1888,
and at the same ratio OF increase, the ex-
port crop from here in two
years hence will be one million bushels.
Meanwhile other branches of farming are
receiving due attention among which is
stock-raising. With superabundance of
nutritious grasses, good water and suita-
BILE shelter for cattle, this county will no
doubt show marked advancement in stock
raising, and farmers are toning up the
breeds by the importation of graded and
in some cases full-blooded stock. Marshall
county is well timbered, being penetrated
by numerous rivers and smaller streams
around which is generally heavy growth of
hardwood timber. This is notably the
case with Snake river which passes through
Warren. In addition to this the eastern
part of the county is quite heavily tim
bered, the pine region of Red lake skirt
ing the eastern portion of Marshall county.
drive out from Warren in any direction
brings one, at this season, in an apparent
center of grain shocks, and stacks, and the
hum of the steam thrasher, and horse power
is heard on every hand although threshing
has not yet fairly begun. AS considerable
grain was left unthreshed last fall and re-
manned so all through the winter, the
farmers are now making extra efforts to
have this seasons grain properly stacked
or threshed in time, and with this in view
there are probably twice as many thresh-
ing machines here as last season.
The larger farmers usually do not stack,
but thresh from the shock, whick is very
we'll, and more economical, provided the
season is favorable, but with a wet fall the
results are disastrous, or at least pro-
ductics of greater loss than the cost of
stacking would involve.
From a stand point of an experienced
farmer, your correspondent would recon-
mend stacking as the rule.
As to estimate of yield by acre, it is a
most uncertain thing to attempt before
threshing is further advanced, but from