The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-13
WHATGREAT MEN SAY
Senator Casey, the Big Farmer,
on Dakota Wheat.
HOW BONANZA RANCHES ARE RUN
How Senator Pugh Discards Hts All
anee Constituents aud Demagogy
Rich Congressman Mitchell

WASHINGTON CRY. Dec. T.-TSpecial Cor
respondence. The new senators from the
Northwest are bringing in wonderful ~
ports of the immense crops OF wheat and
other cereals which have been raised this
year in the Dakotas and Minnesota \
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 thou
sands of bushels of grain are living under
the snow from the lack Of hands to do the
harvesting. The local banks are full of
money and the Minneapolis business men
who were here at the time of the meeting
of the Republican National committee
told me that cords of money were coming
from the Northwest TO them for invest
ment and that the probability was that
great amount Of money would be sent East
TO be loaned. Mr. Bracket. one of the
biggest operators of Minneapolis. says
that about 500, COOS 900 have been gotten
out Of the ground of the two Dakotas and
Minnesota this year, and the farmers Of
these states are paying off their mortgages
and are looking about for good loans.
One of the biggest farmers of the United
States and the man who controls perhaps
as large an amount of cultivated land s.
Senator Casey, of North Dakota. The
Darlington n Casey Land Company has
large number of square miles of Dakota
land, and it has 500 acres under cultiya-
ton. Senator Casey Is the business man
ager OF this tract, and he IS one of the
broadest-minded farmers in the country.
He looks, however, more ike scientific
literateur than q farmer, and he is one of
nd ,,f b.
most cultivated gentlemen of the Senate.
He is a man of broad ideas and high cult
IRE, and he has made q considerable study
of all questions relating 10 the agricult-
ural interests of the country. He comes
from the region of large farms, and when
/ asked him today to tell me something of
the biggest farms in the United States he
replied:
/ suppose tho biggest farm In the United
States Is the Dairymple farm, which is located
in the Red river valley, and which belongs TO
oliver Dalrymple. This farm contains 5000
acres OF the richest of Dakota lands Itisvsl
farmed, and its output is very large The finest
farm in the United States is the Grandin farm
which belongs to Z. b. and J. l.. Grandin, who
came from Iidioute, Pa, some years ago and
bought large tract of Dakota land. This farm
is in the Red river valley, about twenty-five
miles north OF Fargo II has from 10 900 TO 1860
a
of $4,000 during the past ten years. The lands
composing il are now worth from s35 to $50 per
acre, and Mr.. Grandin has other farms near thiA
He is one of the best farmers in the country
and has as superintendent, Mr. A. W. Dalrynl-
pie, nephew of Oliver Dalrymne who owns
the big farm. In addition to these there are in
North Dakota great numb of farms ranging
from 900 to 900 acres We have 1850 acres ia
one place, and We keep 600 acres OF this under
cult Walton.
How can you manage such large farm, SEN
ator?
The big Dakota farms are run on business
principles. Everything is systematically az
ranged, and We know just exactly what every
thing costs and what everything Is worth 10 "a
A farm like ours, for instance has It's book
keeper, its overseer and its employees We have
reports every day from the farm showing Just
what has been done every 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,
ana we credit 1t 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 = cent just how much of an interest we ara
getting on the capital we have invested. All
farming OF this kind IL done on large scale.
We have, for instance. twenty harvesiers, and
we can harvest 30 acres of wheat q day In
putting Ia the wheat we drill in about $50 acres
day, and our machines are all worked under
the direction OF a foreman, so that neither tine
nor labor IS lost. In threshing we can thrssh
from 200 70 1000 bushels Of wheat a day with
one Inaehine, and the grain runs from the
dumped into the pit of our grain elevator and
are carried By sn endless chain OF buckets to the
rooms in which we wish il to be stored
Do you not think, senator. that tho tendency
OF the times Is toward small farms rather than
large onss7
No, do not / think everything noint. 70
expansive farming The farms OF the future n
this country viii be large ones rather than
small ones. Farming becomes more Of busl-
ness every year, aud the outlook is that FROM
now on farming will De one OF the best-payiug
industries Of the United states. Ths day ot
cheap lands IS passing away. There ia very liz
tie unOccupied government land left which 8
worth anything, aud the day has come when
the prices Of cereals must rise and the EeOple
must pay the farmers what their products ara
worth. The increased consumption Of wheat
the world over averages 100000 bushels of
whest every year. and this increase viii 90 on.
The time viii come when there Is less wheat
than the world wants, and prices viii have 20
rise % Induce the farmers 70 raise i.
As It is now, Il does not pay
u raise wheat In most parts II
the United States. The state hoard OF agrie1l-
ture for Ohio lately investigated the matter AID
found that u costs so acre to raise wheat "a
that state, and the secretary Of the Board #
Trade, Of Toledo, made similar investigation
and found il cost 10 Per acre 70 raise wheat n
southern Michigan We hud that u costs "a
about - per acre for all the wheat we raise
North Dakota, and you cannot get the farmers
- rAise wheat IN Ohio until you pay therf
price that will net them { good percentage over
the so that u costs 70 raise H. / look Tor iho
tine when wheat will be 81 - per busheI, and
even a. this rate il vii hardly pay raise il "A
DENAGoGCEs AND THE ALLIAgCR.
These big crops Of which Senator Casey
spe ks have practically ruined the Farmers
Alliance as party and the United States
senators here are breathing easier and are
talking with more independence than they
have shown for a year. Those who are re-
elected pay no attention To the Alliance,
and their feeling Is well expressed by a re-
mark Of Senator Pugh ia tie senate cloak
room just before the last session closed.
Vest and Pugh were sitting together n the
room and Pugh was looking over his mail.
He would take up letter, open IL, glance
at il and then give IL a VindictiYe aliug.
throwing it down upon the floor without
reading j. lie did this with letter after
letter and Vest at last noticed him Bad
said:
Why, senator Pugh. whats the natter Acd
IS that the way you treat your oofFsspoadsueaf
les Those letters aFs Alliance letters, ami
aIa sick q them. J Was elected a iew weeks 4-o
and eTn out Of tbs denagogus business Tor tle
next five years
He did not smile nor change muscle II
his face a. he uttered this remark, and 90
meant what he SAID. There Is no dOuJt
/ bat that our United States senators in
/ their souls hate demagOEy as much -
| any class Of men in the country, uttbey
| have % do - 10 keep their positions.
/ There is hardly any one % taem whO has
not more or less Of the demagogue about
/ him AZ times. ingalls, gas demagoRuS
/ when he he'd ead a. 10 the Alliance men -
/ the time wtnen he hoped % be elected %
| the senate bat failed Even 1hern "a
| now and then aescen8s into Gcluag0-ry,
/ and such men - GorMan and Bayard %
! more q less defnagogues. he worst defa-
I aeogles are those Is 10 try - make capital
& of AfcE tsr