Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-17
Crop and Land Notes.

call the precious metals.
Crop and Land Notes.
Judge Rose is buying horses for the
$40 acre farm he recently bought in AL
bion township this county. He has
bought nine horses, all good stock, most
ly Percherons, and intends buying more.
There were 300 acres of the land in crop,
which will be plowed back this fall. Next
spring the remainder of the ground will
probably be broken. The crop that is on
the land this year-200 acres put in by
Pat Moran-would have paid for the
price OF The entire farm. Judge Rose
says he would not take $1,000 for his bar
gain. He intends to erect buildings, and
make the place model one, if the land
continues to yield as it has done this
year. The price paid for the land, in
cluding the breaking, was little more
than four dollars an acre.
Senator Casey says the Darlington &
Casey farm has storage for only 47,00O
bushels and is therefore obliged to ship
out a large amount of the wheat crop as
soon as threshed. If the yield continues
on this farm, as it is now running, there
will be something like 10000 bushels of
grain raised this year. A half section of
lana was sold from this farm the past
week to a resident of Foster county at
the rate of 50 an acre.
It ls SAID by threshers that without
there IS an open winter to work there
will be wheat in the county to thresh
next year. This is likely to be the case,
not only in this county, but in other
counties as WE'LL Men and teams are
scarce, for the demand has been unusu-
ally great during the past week. Foster
county threshers would be glad to give
employment to so or 100 men and the
same complaints Of lack OF help is heard
from parties IN Wells and EGdy counties.
There are more threshing outfits in the
country than have been known before,
and each machine has more work than
it can do. There is double the amount
of straw to put through the ma
chimes and the yield is so large
that it will require double the time to
thresh out grain this year than it has
ever before taken. There is every Undue.
ment for farmers to stack their wheat
the price may not prove the chief cousid-
GRAFTON to do this, as il is likely that il
will become necessary to stack to pro-
tect the grain before 1t can be threshed
Many who depend on threshing this fall
are liable to get left and take chances of
prairie fires. Referring to this slow work
of threshing the Ransom county Gazette
says: "Threshing crews are not getting
over the ground anywhere near as fast as
they expected to. 1t was thought they
could each complete Is to 100 acres per
day, but the straw is very heavy and the
wheat pours out SO that the men at the
spout have to hustle to take care of it.
Fifty acres makes a good days work and
in most cases that means about 1,5OO
bushels. The consequence Of all this is
that already threshers are behind with
their engagements and none of them will
be able to fill all their contracts.
Capt. McGlnnls has 25 bushel yield
at his Melville farm. 1t was the first
number one hard that has been received
at that station, although there is plenty
Of it in the vicinity no doubt. The Nc
Glnnis farms in the Albion precinct did
not get an early sowing this year, and as
consequence will produce little better
than bad lot of rejected.
The two car loads of wheat which
were shipped from the j. G. Duff farm in
Foster county, we're from fields which
gave the largest yields ever known in the
county. The Darlington Independent
says collection was taken up and the
proceeds we're used for the purpose of
buying bunting on which was printed in
large letters: Warrington, Foster Co.,
North Dakota, first threshing, season 1891.
40 bushels and 10 pounds No. hard per
acre. More to follow. A few choice
claims yet vacant" Two of these large
posters we're made and were placed on
each side Of the car. Farmers are Just
beginning to awake to the fact that
they have raised an immense crop this
year.
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