Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-03
COMING HaRvEsrs.

Seine OF the Products to be Grown
During the season of 1856.
A few more granger workers have
been conyersed with and their revela.
lions have senabled ae to present these
facts:
John Williams, who occupies what is
known as the Robb place near GayviIle,
Will produce this season 80 acres of corn,
20 OF oats, II of wheat, 2 of potatoes and
other vegetables. He has 100 head of
cattle and horses, 8 ponies and is giving
especial attention to raising fancy ponl-
try. He has 500 acres of land 10 of
which are planted to trees.
Isaiah Rifen bark, residing four miles
west Of the city, wi Gao acres OF land
lie will raise so acres of corn, 65 of oats,
le OF wheat, 2 of potatoes and vegeta-
bles and break and SOW to fax between
4 0 and 90 acres of new land. Mr.. Rlfen-
bark has 100 acres fenced in a cattle
pasture and 20 acres of hog pasture. He
has 65 heaa of cattle, 6 horses, 40 hogs
from six months to a year old and a lot
OF spring pigs, Upon his
farm are SO bearing apple trees, ounces.
raspberries, goosberries and grapes and
10 acres of cottonwood, box elder and
elm trees.
Ephriam Miner, upon the Ward &
Miner jim river farm, will produce 100
acres of field corn and oats and 25 acres
of sweet corr for fodder. He has 400
head OF cattle and 200 hogs.
Washington Reed, whose farm is a
mile or two up the Missouri, on Smutty
Bear bottom. will raise so acres of corn,
40 Of flax, 5 of oats. Mr.. Reed is an old
timer, having located on his present
possessions in 1862, coming from Ohio,
and though he and his wife have passed
the age of IS they are both active
workers. They have four living children,
three of whom are married, but the
fourth remains at home and assists his
father, who still gives personal attention
to field work. In the early days of the
Black Hills excitement, this pioneer
went with the crowd to the land of gold
and the reporter remembers, with pleas
'Irable emotions, sitting down to a tooth
some bean repast in his Hill City ranch
in 1876.
George w. Roberts, real estate dealer
of Yankton, has several farms under the
care OF tenants. On what ID known as
the Sheldon farm he will raise 60 acres
of flax, rs OF wheat, 40 of corn, 30 of oats,
2 of potatoes. On a firm near the in
sane asylum, 20 acres of flax, 25 of oats
On q farm near Walshtown, % acres of
lax, 20 of oats. On the Sphinx farm 60
of flax, 20 OF corn. Da the Orion farm
so acres of fax, 40 of corn. On a farm
in 20, "a, Sc, 40 acres of flax. Total, fax,
255 acres: corn. 100; wheat, %; oats rs;
potatoes, 2.
William 7. Badly, u farmer on Beaver
creek who owns q fine quarter section,
will produce s acres of wheat, 20 OF corn,
u of oats, 10 of fax, Q of cottonwood
trees. He has % head of cattle, IA
breeding hogs and 5 horses. Fifty acres
of his farm is q fenced pasture and he
has q good house and stables.
Call at Shaw's Restaurant
and Ice Cream ParIor.-The finest
Ice Cream parlor for ladies and gentle
men in the territory of Dakota.
PRICE LIST:
Dish of .......10c
Twelve lee Cream tickets ..........$1 90
.,...... ......2Uc
S"t10a
Remember the RED LAMP.
1 will sell church festivals cream
cheaper than any enc here, and will
continue to manufacture the best Ice
Cream in the west. The Restaurant
always supplied with the best the mar.
ket affords. j. b. SHAW, Yankton.