Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-13
THE BIG FARMS PAY.
Senator Casey Tells How He Culti-
Yates q 5,000-Acre Tract
SMALL HOLDINGS OUT OF STYLE.
BE Raises an Acre of Wheat for $8 While
1t Costs 500 in Ohio.
STATESMEN PLAYING THE DENAG0GUE

| YCoRREsPoNDENcE OF THE DTsPATCH.1
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE new Sena.
! tors from the Northwest are bringing in
wonderful reports of the immense crops Of
wheat and other cereals which have been
raised this year in the Dakotas and Mime
sofa. A large part of the wheat of North
Dakota is yet unthreshed, and in those
counties where the greatest distress was last
year the crop is the largest.
Hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain
are lying under the snow from the lack Of
hands to do the harvesting. The local banks
are full of money, and the Minneapolis busi-
ness men who were here at the time of the
meeting of the Republican National Com
mittee told me that cords of money were
coming from the Northwest to them for in
vestment, and that the probability was that
a great amount of money would be sent
East to be loaned. Mr.. Bracket, one of the
biggest operators of Minneapolis, says that
about S400, ,000, 900 have been gotten out of
the ground Of the two Dakotas and Mime
sofa this year, and the farmers of these
States are paying off their mortgages and
are looking about for good loans.
Talk With Big Farmer.
One of the biggest farmers of the United
States and the man who controls perhaps
as large an amount Of cultivated land as any
man in the United States Senate is Senator
Casey, of North Dakota The Darlington
and Casey Land Company has large num-
Der of square miles of Dakota land and it
has 5000 acres under cultivation. Senator
Casey is the business manager of this tract,
and he is one of the Predetermined farm
ers in the country. He looks, however.
more like q scientific literateur than q
farmer. and he is one of the best business
men and one of the most cultivated gentle
men of the Senate.
II suppose" he said, 'the biggest farm
in the United States is the Dalrymple farm,
which is located in the Red River Valley
and which belongs to Oliver Dalrymple.
This farm contains 80, 900 acres of the rich
est of Dakota lands. The finest farm in
the United States is the Gfandin farm
which belongs to E. B. and j. L. Grandin,
who came from Tidioute, Pennsylvania, some
years ago and bought large tract of Dakota
land. This farm is in the Red River Valley
about % miles north of Fargo. 1t has from
10000 to Il, 900 acres under cultivation and
it has made profit of $3.50, 900 during the
past ten years. The lands composing it are
now worth from s35 to $50 per acre.
How a Big Farm Is Run.
1.-THE big Dakota farms are run on busi-
ness principles. Everything Is systemati-
cally arranged, anG We know just exactly
what everything costs and what everythin,
is worth to us. A farm like ours, for in
stance, has its bookkeeper, its overseer and
re ,nln n hnx nrfo L.,
from the farm, showing just what has been
done during the day and what each man,
each horse and each machine has done. We
estimate the wear and tear of every machine
in proportion to the amount of work it does,
and We credit it with all its repairs, and
know its life and value. We know just
what each acre of wheat costs us and the
profits arising from it, and we can tell to a
cent just how much of an interest we are
gettirg on the capital we have invested.
All farming of this kind is done on q
large scale We have for instance 20 har-
vesters, and we cin harvest 800 acres of
drill in about 250 acres o day, and our ma
chimes are all worked under the direction
of foreman, so that neither time nor labor
is lost. We can thresh from 1900 to 1000
bushels of wheat day with one machine,
and the grain runs from the threshing ma
chimes into wagons, and these are dumped
into the pit of our grain elevator, and are
carried by an endless chain of buckets to
the rooms in which we wish it to be stored"
The Farms of the Future.
EDO you not think, Senator, that the ten
dercy of the times is toward small farms
rather than large ones2'
''No," replied Senator Casey, 'T do not.
think everything points to expansive
farming. The farms of the future in this
country will be large ones rather han small |
ones. Farming becomes more of business |
every year. and the outlook is that from |
now on farming will be one OF the best pay
ing industries of the United States. The |
lav of cheap lands is passing away. There
is very little unoccupied Government lands |
left which are worth anything, and the day |
has come when the prices of cereals must
rise and the people must pay the farmers
what their products are worth. The in
creased consumption of wheat the world |
over averages 10000 900 bushels of wheat
every year, and this increase will
20 on. The time will come when
here is less wheat than the world
wants, and prices will have to rise to in
luce the farmers to raise it. As it is now it
ioes not pay to raise wheat in most parts OF
he United States. The State Board of
Agriculture for Ohio lately investigated the
natter and found that it costs $40 an acre to
aise wheat in that State and the Secretary
# the Board of Trade of Toledo made
imilar investigation and found it cost $40
,er acre to raise wheat in Southern Michi-
,an. We find that it costs us about Sc per
ere. I look for the time when wheat
will be 81 30 bushel."
Demagogues and the Alliance.
These big crops of which Senator Casey
peaks have practically ruined the Farmers
Alliance as party and the United States
senators here are breathing easier and are
alking with more independence than they
AVE shown for a year. Those who are re-
lected no attention to the Alliance and
heir feeling is we'll expressed by remark
# Senator Pugh in the Senate cloakroom
ust before the last session closed. Vest and
'ugh were sitting together in the room and
axe up a letter, open it, glance at 1t and
hen give it vindictive sling, throwing it
own upon the floor without reading it.
lie did this with letter after letter and Vest
t last noticed him and said:
"Why, Senator Pugh, what's the matter?
md is that the way you treat your CORES
ondence?"
eyes," grunted Pugh. '"Those letters are
Alliance letters and am sick of them. I
,as elected few weeks ago, and I am out
f the demagogue business for the next five
ears"
He did not smile or change muscle of
is face as he uttered this remark, and he
leant what he said There is no doubt that
ur United States Senators in their souls
ate demagoguery, but they have to practice
to keep their positions.
Play the Hypocrite at Times.
There is hardly any one of them who has
~ or lose ~ bn oh | .