The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1883-12-01
A BUCKEYE VIEW.
The Cincinnati Commercial. Gazette on
The Dakota Products ut the Gin.
cinnati ExnOSiti0n.

lMe DRkOla FfOHUctS nC Tic Clns
cinnati Exposition.
Many people have an idea that
Minnesota. North Dakota, Montana.
Idaho. Washington and Oregon,
through which the Northern Pacific
runs, embrace dreary land of snow
and ice that lies Immediately in the
shadow of the North Pole. They
imagine that it Is a region of unre.
lenting cold, inhospitable and scarce
ly hahitable by man. The first
glance at the exhibit will utterly re
move this illusion. and the cereals
vegetables and other products of the
soil prove that it is a fertile country,
and one whose agricultural possihili-
tins have scarcely yet been dreamed
II. Tho land which the Northern
Pacific has opened is destined to be
the great wheat helt Of America, and
consequently the great grain-produc-
ing region of the globe; and never
does one so forcihly realize the fact
us when confronted with all the evil
lences that are exhibited of what the
Northwestern farmers have done and
are doing. 1t is hard to comprehend
that the country whose uncivilized
and almost uneXplored vastness was
called by that spacious title 'sthe
Great Northwest" has been brought
close to the rest of the world, and
that it's products call forth the Won
der and admiration of all.
The specimens of wheat that are
exhibited are many, and their quail
ties are various. Prominent among
them is the Scotch Fife wheat. of
North Dakota, which is technically
known as mo. hard" This grain
is particularly we'll adapted for the
making of fine flour by the patent
roller process, which is in operation
at all the western mills, and it brings
from ten to fifteen per cent. more in
the market than the ordinary varie-
ties. Not only is the grain itself OF
exhibition. but the -four as we'll.
This flour is all as white and fine as
the most dainty housewife could
wish, but it's reputation for superla-
tiveness is so well known that it
would only be surertluous to speak
further of it.
Another variety of wheat is the
Club, that fonrishes in all its per.
fection in Minnesota and North Da-
kota, where the yield to the acre is
from thirty-live to forty bushels, of
sixty-two pounds. There is also the
Odessa wheat, the Russian, the White
Winter, the White Australian Spring,
Purple Club and Little Club. Arnold's
Victor, Golden Amber, Red Chop and
Seven-headed. All these are exhibit
ed just us they fell beneath the iron
teeth of the reaper and in the
threshed state. The straw is unusu-
ally tall and firm, while the grains of
wheat are rounded and full. There
is no such thing as dummy heads,
and Ohio farmers express themselves
as very much surprise at the splendid
grain which is exhibited.
But the road. which must be re-
membered, is two thousand miles in
length, runs through some of the
most magnificent grazing country in
the world, and the grasses which
have been sent to Cincinnati, are not
less interesting than the samples Of
wheat. There is timothy, the heads
of which are eleven inches long, and
which, it must he confessed, is as
good us anything that ever came
from the Ohio valley. Then there is
red top, brown top. blue joint, wild
rye and the old familiar blue grass.
Thus far, only the wheat and
grasses have been mentioned, but
barley, rye, oats and other cereals
flourish equally we'll, In one sheaf
of oats the straws are seven feet long,
and are noticeahly thick and vigor-
Gus. In fact. it really seems as if
what was believed to be cold and
uninviting desert has been made to
blossom like the rose and to be, after
all, a land flowing with milk and
honey.
But the vegetables are positively
beyond comparison. They far ex-
ceed all others Of their kind that ever
have graced the eight county fairs in
this locality. There are squashes
that weigh over one hundred pounds;
beautiful white parsnips twenty
seven inches in length; potatoes that
are monsters, and as perfectly formed
and as elem as can be imagined; ruta-
bagas. turnlps. carrots. cabbages, cue
cumbers. and even WatermelOns.
The vegetables come from Northern
Dakota and Minnesota. and princi-
pally from the counties of Cass, Ran
som, Barnes, Stutsman, Kidder, La
Moure, Burleigh. Norton, Stark and
Billings.
Ex-President Hayes, as is well
known, has a farm in Dakota, and
there are several of it's products OH
exhibition. There is some fax seed.
which is far above the average, and