The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-08
SPECIALIZATION .or::rz1 r1ornnR zxpR1ss.
FARMING on The Pr.

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paper will bc.real bv: Connell estimates
their lives toiled swing one acre of
stumps and the s follows: Flowing and
grubs; and towl o seet tbrssSio ; e si75!
obs OF prairie I'd team, 81. SO.
novelty. For IL Of Hamilton, estimates
nation of such 5.
acct,.,,,. ..sgs adds: DO not try to turn
over with the pillow more than the share
will cut. DO not have the ridges more
than from 8 to IL yards wide so that the
water will the sooner run off. Plow
deep and If the team is not strong
enough sell them and buy heavier
pair. Take good care Of your machin-
cry and stock, and farming ut the low
price Of 60 cents per bushel, will pay.
John Hodgson of Baltimore says lie
can we'll afford to SOW wheat for 60 cents
bushel.
An old farmer of experience in Red
River valley farming, says there is moth
ing like Scotch Fife wheat for seed.
The straw is stiff, and it is not rs likely
to rust as some other varieties.
Another says that a farmer cannot he
successful, unless he diversifies his
farming. Everything that tho land
will produce should be cultivated.
Another warns farmers to keep out
of debt. Ii you contract debts don't
have them fall duo at u time which will
take you from your fall work.
One of our successful farmers says
that after trying for many years to sue.
coed on q central farm in Illinois he
spent several years in Kansas and final
ly came to Dakota five years ago with
less than $500. He has now 800 acres
of fine land more than half of which is
under cultivation and is out of debt.
James McGurran tells his eastern
friends that Pembina should be prefer
red by emigrants, because the soil is
OF the best quality; because there is an
abundance of good water; because we
have agood government and the people
are con tented; because o man with o
team and 81 900 capital or even less,
has bright prospect here, because
there is plenty of timber in Pembina
county, because one man with three
horses can put in 100 acres of ground
that has been fall plowed, because two
men with three horses can harvest
l4O acres with binder. be-
cause our winters are not half so Sc
we're Us our eastern friends imagine
keen, bracing and healthy, because our
country offers inducements to the cap
italist, specalator and poor man. Mr.:
Mc(illrran saws, come and see us before
locating elsewhere:
II. Waldo saysi would not break
after July LIST, if I could get it done for
nothing. Ali stubble pIowipg SHOULD
be done in the fall. Nothing pays bet
ter than q good summer fallow. Every
man should raise some stock. A mare
foaling June LIST can raise u colt with
out interfering with her spring work.
The idea of man buying his pork
should not be thought of. Ditching
with pillow and scraDer may be done at
little expense. I have about 800 box
wood trees. three years old; some
of them are six feet high; those that
I trimmed and kept we'll cultivated are
twice rs high as the others; planted
seed November 4th. 1 might add
that four years ago started with one
COW. This spring as result of that in-
vestment l have four milking cows,
three yearlings, and four calves,
making in I'LL eleven head.
John Bechtel Esq, Elk. Go. Commits
sioner who spent the earlier part OF
his life in Ontario, in Waterloo and
Huron Counties, and ten years in the
State OF Missouri, who has farmed
ever since he was able to drive Il team,
says lie has made more money in Penn
bina Coin ten years than before in 30.
He gives the following: My first crop
in 1877 averaged 279 BUSH. per
acre, in 1873. BIB BUSH, in 1879 ;,64
bush, in 1880, 81 BUSH, in 1881 %
bush., in 1882 Is BUSH, in 1888 23 bush,
in 1884, % bush. THIS was OH fields
from 125 to 800 acres. The av-.
erage price was SS cents. He has
also tried stock raising and finds it
pays. His home is in Cavalier town
ship which he says is one of the most
thrifty townships and that the average
per acre is from five to ten bush. more
than in any other heighborhool in'the
county. Mr.. Bechtel gives his expert.
ence in travelling from Missouri here d
compared with the comfortable way i'd
which people travel in coming from the
east nov. He and his family came L..
600 miles in wagons, drove their cattle,
MIXED sixteen cows on the way and made
me-. a4iIe butter than they could use. They
were niae Weths On the rYa,l and lid
not sleep nor cot in house far three
months.
James Dahie writing to friend east
says, that in the itel ltiyer valley We
have as active und hardy race as the
world can produce. A man with team
of oxen here can put in as much ground
as n man with q team of horses east.
Everything considered you can do bet
ter by settling in Pembina county
than by going farther west.