The Dickinson press., 1885-02-07

sheds for cattle and for rails for small
Enclosures. If this were not coun-
try where coal is abundant and easily
dug from the ground it would be in
valuable for fuel, but when farmer
can take pick and shovel and load
his wagon with hard, clean Ignite
from a bank in sight of his house he
has not much use for wood to burn.
There is plenty of stone for found?.
tion and cellar walls on the crests of
the hills and springs of pure water
abound. AS to the agricultural ca
pacities of the region l will let some
of the settlers speak for themselves.
l.. II. Breum, (Norwegian,) lately
from Nebraska.-Live three miles
northeast of Richardton. Sowed 80
acres in oats and threshed SO bushels
to the acre. Got 100 bushels of bar
ley from 5 bushels of seed. On one
and one-quarter acres of ground dug
400 bushels of potatoes. Raised be-
tween 600 and 100 bushels of turnips.
Am we'll satisfied with the country
for general farming.
William Wilking. from Cornwall
on-the-IIudson, New York.-Am
farming for myself and others. Had
in about $50 acres of wheat. The
yield averaged is bushels to the acre,
but the grain had a poor chance. for
the breaking and backsetting were
poorly done. and part of the crop was
on sod. If the land had been well
prepared | should have got 25 bushels
to the acre. My oats went from 50
to As bushels, in different fields.
Careful cultivation pays here. A
man had better take so acres and cul-
tivate it we'll than to half cultivate
100. l once farmed in the Muskin-
gum valley, which is one of the best
sections of Ohio. can raise vegeta-
bles and all kinds of garden truck here
with half the labor could there.
This is not Il range country, but it
will pay every farmer to keep as
much stock as he can put up feed for.
Benjamin Webb, from Beecher,
lllinois.-IIave a homestead claim
with 40 acres in cultivation. Raised
1000 bushels of oats from 25 acres.
My wheat was light on account of
bad seed. From 2 bushels of barley
Sown on ~ acres l thrsshed so hus,-
els. My corn is fair crop but l
have not husked it yet and can't tell
how much l shall get. Potatoes and
tlnnips yielded enormously. Have
spent three winters in Western Oak
ota. That of 1884 was the coldest.
The real cold weather set in on the
twenty-seveuth of December and the
ground remained frozen without Il
break till the middle of March. l
sowed wheat on the twenty fourth of
March. l spent six years in Illinois
and like the seasons here better than
there. There is no mud in the spring.
The roads are good as soon ps the
frost gets out of the surface of the
ground. The June rains make our
crops.
Edmund Hughes. from Beecher.
Illinois, Live in Antelope township,
six miles from Richardton. Have 4
pre-emption and tree claim. Had
35 acres in crop. Three acres of
wheat yielded 70 bushels. Sowed S
spring and got 25 bushels to the acre.
Got about 400 busnels of potatoes
from a single acre. Rutabagas and
turnips yielded remarkably we'll.
The season of 1883 was very dry, but
crops put i'm in good shape did we'll.
This country stands drouth well
and also stands a good deal of water.
Cattle roll in fat in the spring if fed
only on the prairie hay during the
winter. Good government land can
be had near where leave, within
three miles of the railroad.
drove out to the frontier Of set
tlcment south of Richardton and
talked with some of the German
farmers. Their great industry will
win in the long run in spite of their
want of means. They had already
made quite comfortable improve.
ments on their claims with their own
labor, buying lumber and dong their
own carpenter work on their little
houses, and putting up stables tor
stock of turf and straw, with few
posts and rafters to hold the monde
script editices together. All had care
fully titled gardens-a thing too often
neglected for the first few years by
American settlers who are usually in
a great hurry to get big crop Of
wheat. They kept few cattle, hogs
and chickens. One man said his two
daugeters had done most of the work
building his house and digging his
we'll. The house stood on a sort of
shelf on the side of hill and one
could step from the back door into
a cellar dug in the bank. III front
sloped a garden fenced in by a wall
of turf and surrounded by raspberry,
currant and goosberry bushes.
E. V. Smalley III the Northwest
Supper and Dance.
On Tuesday evening February 18th,