Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-07-04

in each of these localities, as the infor-
nation acquired from this man agreed
with that obtained from other sources,
and in my opinion offers clear
portrayal of existing conditions
and results heretofore obtained in
the , Palouse country, ( will con-
fine myself to the recital which |
drew out by the pumping process.
Yields and prices for 1888: barley. 40
to so bushels, price 40 to ~ cents. Oats,
40 to so bushels, price % to 33 cents
Wheat 20 to 30 bushels, average % bush
els, price 60 to 65 cents 1S87-Wheat
averaged 80 bushels, and it was consider
ed an enormous YELL. i8S6--Crops We're
poor generally.
For seven years tie averages have
been: Wheat Is bushels at SOC; oats 40
bushels at 29c; barley ~ bushels at 39c.
Cost of heading and stacking S1.25 per
acre; of thresning from stacked wheat 7c;
oats sc; barley SC. Wages One dollar
per day for cropping; one and one-half
dollars per day tor harvest, and SO per
month for balance Of season. Owing to
drouth and heat, there will be less than
one half crop this year in this val
ley.
Native grass furnishes no such pas
ture us in Illinois or Kansas, and as yet
we have found no substitute. We grow
rye, beardless barley, oats and wheat for
hay. Water-good supply, but some
times little difficult to find. Interest
this years short crop will pinch a good
many farmers. Squirrels are doing a
good deal OF damage to crops. We raise
no t1ax here yet Tomatoes are not a
success here; cabbages only III places;
fairly good fruit Of harder kinds; no
peaches; occasionally a low spot near
stream will grow timothy, but not gen
erai Corn does not mature. Twenty five to
thirty mile strip west OF the mountains
is all that is safe for wheat. Very little
unimpro we'd land remaining. and sells for
from 81 to Sl5 per acre, depending on
distance from market. Partially improy-
ed land S15 to $50.
Generally throughout Washington
wheat is the staple product of the coun-
| try, as it is of Dakota. For l5 years, or
beginning with the earlier settlement in
North Dakota, the average yield ofwheat
per acre has been perhaps 30 and posi-
| bly, Is per cent greater il Washington
than IN Dakota, and the price per bushel
for the same period has averaged not far
from 100 per cent more III Dakota than
in Washington. In ether words. the
Washington farmer has handled nearly
twice as much gram and pad the in
creased cost Of threshing and hauling to
market in order to realize about the same
amount OF cash per acre, as received in
| Dakota.
The barley crop has clearly paid
| better IN Washington than in Dakota.
| cfr hcc IN
ington and Dakota on the farm and in
connection with general farming, at
about equal profit. In Dakota, as in
I fWashingto Ton, corn is only q success as a
forage crop.
In Dakota we can as yet only grow
successfully the small fruits. In Wash
ington nearly all fruits. Clover, alfalfa
and timothy succeed only N limited To-
calities in either Washington or Dakota.
Oats and vegetables only grow in
small portions OF Washington without
irrigation; both grow wonderfully in
every portion of Dakota.
Washington farmers rest and summer
fallow their lands every alternate year.
When Dakota farmers do the same
thing we shall increase our average yield
25 per cent.
Flax. millet, hungarian are grown in
Dakota and not in Washington.
Dakota winters are extremely cold.
Washln gton winters are rainy, muddy
and dep ressing-but warm.
There are annoying winds IN Dakota
and more annoying uust IN Washington.
Dakota enjoys SIX as deighttui months
as can be found apyW here from May l, to
Nov. l. In Washington May and June
seem to be the only certainly perfect
months.
Lands of any grade or condition of i'm
provement can be bought today in Da-
kota for one half the asking prices in
Washington. II owned and we're liv-
ing on a good farm in Washington I
would not sell it and remove to Dakota
and under similar conditions certainly
would not remove from Dakota to Wash
lngton. A good farmer with good judg-
ment, good management and economy
prospers and becomes independent in
= either Dakota or Washington. The shift
less, careless, indolent and speculative
farmer will starve out IN Washington
inst as surely as that he has starved out
in Dakota. from whence he has tramped
on to Washington. The latter class of
farmers in their vain search for some
place where they can get rich easily, have
constituted considerable percentage OF
the pioneer settlements OF every western
state and territory. Where they will go
from Washington when they fail there,
, the Lord only knows. The Pacific ocean
will welcome them. but Dakota never.
Twenty years from today the Dakota
agricultural districts and the Dakota
farmers will be Weather than the Wash
. ington agricultural districts and the
Washington farmer. At the same period
the business community and the business
1 men of Washington will be Weather
= than the same class in Dakota. | believe
the eastern farmer who wants more lano
should come to Dakota and the eastern
specuator and business man goto Wash
ington. Z. =. W.
VIII Take Care OF ats Trees.
q The Northern Pacific company is in