Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-07
Odds and Ends from Rhodes
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zs Rhoaes-land, be it understood is
the name given to tho j. III. Rhodes
place, situated in the township Of
Bellevue, which 10 now being brought
under cultivation al home farm.
There has bsen d yield Of wheat here
the present season Of about 5000
bushels, or rather more than twenty
seven bushels to the acre. Some " hat
less than 100 acres have been broken
during the summer for next years
cropping. The prospect from the sits
designed for the home grounds is one
of magnificent distances To look at
4 neighbours house, one must serve
ones self of a telescope. Upon SUN
shiny afternoon, farm dwellings to the
number of fifty or more may be dis
tinctly seen from Rhodes-land: scat
tered about the open country in the
direction Of Rich Prairie and Buck
man town, at distances varying from
two OF three miles, to ten or more.
J. H. Rhodes returned to his farm,
last week, from Crapser's great Iowa
sale Of thoroughbred Holsteins, held
at Cresco, Howard county, November
%, 1883. Mr.. Rhodes reports that st
the widely advertised sale in question,
fftyiye blooded animals, ranging in
age from two months, upward, were
sold for sums aggregating $40, 900.
Large purchases were made by dep
utation conveyed in Especial car from
New York, sent out by VIM. H. Van
derbilt, and consisting Of butcher.
Vanderbilt's stock agent, with a party
of four friends. Mr., Rhodes obtained
at the same sale and brought back with
him to Rhodes-land = fine thorough
bred Hslstein heifer, which, included
in his present herd consisting mainly
Of thoroughbred Holstein's and short=
horns, and grade Short-horns, ETC.,
brings it up to SO in number. The late
purchase, Frjscoe End. is a valuable
prize animal, three years old, and
weighing 1000 pounds at. one year.
Friscoe End has already taken six
prizes, as follows:
She received first premium at the
great Minneapolis fair of 1882.
She was also in the herd taking the
first herd prize of $500 at the same
place.
She won the first prize at the fair
hald ct DEBORAH, Iowa, 1882.
She received the first premium at
the Howard county fair, Iowa, 1882.
She was one of the herd winning
tho first prize on herd, at DEBORAH
fair, Iowa, 1883.
She won the sweepstakes at the
Howard county fair of 1888, competing
at that time with three herds of Hol-
stems, and with the best two herds of
Ghortlhorns exhibited at our fairs this
season. $780,.
So much for the stock history of
Morrison county.
. Professor L. B. Sunderlin, late prin-
cipal Of the Little Falls graded school,
is at present in charge at Rhodes
land, having recently assumed that re-
sponsibility. The professor il in ex~
cellent health, and consequent spirits;
as his old friends and pupils will of
course be glad to learn. His brow,
no longer 'sickl1ed DER with the pale
cast of thought, TOR words to that ef-
fsct--is rapidly taking on the ideal es-
thetic bronze proper to genuine
horny handed soh of the soil The ex-
change of the confinement and care IN
cident to school room, for the invig-
Grating, bucolic life upon tho breezy
prairie stretches of Bellevue is in his
CAGE most satisfactory dep arturo,
both as regards health, and his very
pronounced agricultural proclivities.
The Professors musical reputation
has preceded him hither. asHe has al
ready had an offer looking to the es-
Enlistment Of music class in this vi
cinity. The Professor, however, un-
like the "Gamp" is not $50 dispoged,"
he having resigned fine musical pros
poets in Iowa at the time Of promoting
himself to his present professorship in
farming. F. E.B.
Rhodes-land, Dec. 4; 1888.