Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-17
TALL WESTERN BLOWING

TALL WESTERN BLOWING
THAT MADE THE EASTERN AGR1-
CULTURlsTs CAPE WITH
WONDER.
ayes, sir" resumed the Dakota
man, as the crowd of agricultural
lists drew back from the bar and
seated themselves around a little
table; "yes, sir, we do things on
rather a sizeable scale. Pve seen o
man on one OF our big farms start
out in the spring and plow a
straight furrOw until tall. Then he
turned round and harvested back"
"Carry his grub with him y ask
ed a Brooklyn farmer, who raises
cabbage on the outskirts.
.No, sir. They follow him up
with a steam hotel and have relays
of men to change plows for him.
We have some big farms up there,
gentlemen. A friend Of mine own
ed one on which he had to give a
mortgage, and l pledge you my
word, the mortgage was due on one
end before they could get 1t re-
corded at the other. lou see 1t
was LAID off In counties.
There was a murDur OF aston
ishment, and the Dakota man con-
tinued:
II got a letter from a man who
lives in my orchard, just before l
left home, and it had been three
weeks getting to the dwelling
house, though 1t travelled day and
night"
"Distances are pretty wide up
there, amt they?' inquired New
Utrecht agriculturallst.
OCCASIONALLY, reasonably" re-
Piled the Dakota man. "And the
worst of 1t is, it breaks up families
so. Two years ago saw a whole
family Frustrated with grief. Wo'
men yelling, children bowling and
dogs barking. One ofmy men had
his camp truck packed on seven
four mule teams and he was around
bidding everybody goodby.'
"Where was he golngi" asked
Gravesend man.
ale was going half way across
the farm to feed the pigs" replied
the Dakota man.
"Did he ever get back to hii
family 2"
alt isn't time for him yet" re
turned the Dakota gentleman "Up
there We send young married
couples to milk the cows, and thelI
children bring home the milk"
81 understand you nave five
mines up that way" ventured a
Jamaica turnip planter.
eyes, but we only use the quartz
tor fencing" said the Dakota man,
testing the blade OF his knife with
his thumb, prepatory to whettlng
it on his boot. "It wouldn't pay to
crush it, because we can make more
money in wheat. put in eighty
nine hundred townships of wheat
last spring"
"IIow many acres would that
be ?"
awe don't count by acres. we
count By townships and counties.
Ny yield was sixty-eight millions
of dollars on wheat alone, and Pm
thinking of breaking up from
eighty to a hundred more counties
next season"
GLOW do you get the help for
such extensive operations " asked
the New Utrecht man.
"Oh, labor Is cheap replied
the Dakota man. "YOu can get all
you want for from 500 to s47 a
day. In fact, | never paid over
$685."
"Is land cheap z"
"No, land is high. Not that i
costs anything, for it don't; bu
under the laws of the territory you
have got to take 80 much or none
| was in luck. Had friend al
Yankton who got a bill through
the legislature, allowing me to take
4SO, 900 square miles, which is the
smallest faru there, though it II
i-r
"Look here" said the barkeeper
as the Eastern husbandmen stroll
ed out in bunch to consider th'
last statement, sis all this thinl
you've been telling true I"
"CertainIy, Responded the West
ern man "at least it is a moditi
cation OF what | saw in a Dakota
paper that was wrapped around I
pair of shoes last night. dIdn'I
dare put it as strong as the pape
did tor nO.one would believe II
You can slate that last round o
drinks and I'll pay in the morn
ing"
The Power of Kindness.
There is no power Of love 8
hard to get and keep as a kin,