St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26

cess OF the farmers. This is presented
IN the form Of newspaper paragraphs
and personal experiences, of which we
could fill many columns. given below:
SO1zE ACat..1-. FACTS.
III Theories Fade Hefore These
Living Examples.
The Dwight Farm company, of
Dwight, n. d., sold Weldon j. Fuller
800 acres Of land last season for 5000.
The crop this season paid for the land
and all expenses.
w. B. Turner, of Orr, n. D., offered
to sell his lG0-acre farm last spring for
$1,000. He received this fall $3.50 for
the wheat raised on eighty acres. Mr.
McMahan, in the same vicinity. received
more for the wheat raised on fittv acres
than he would have taken for his 100
acres last spring.
The Marvel On. d. Graphic saws
Harry Bushaw. near that place, threshed
1872 bushels of red fyfe wheat from two
acres OF summer fallow, or sixty six
! bushels to the acre. Doubtful persons
measured the ground. This beats the
siXty-one bushels at Park River and the
siXtyfOur bushels at DEVILS Lake, and
for the present Marvel wears the rib
bon.
r. n. Ink says one of his fields, from
which nine successive crops of wheat
have been taken, Welded twenty-five
bushels per acre this season. How is
that for constant cropping, with no fer
tilizers returned to the Soil?-WahpetOn
On. d. Globe.
In the spring of 1890 w. NJ. Jones
bought quarter section of land of
Peter Fyfe, with horses and seed, prom
ising to pay in the future as they might
yield. Nov. Billy paid his debt, and
has everything clear.-Gilby IN. D.
Globe.
June 2, 1890, l sold a farm in 1raill
county on the crop plan-giving the
purchaser four years to pay for it. Not
a farthing was paid on the contract at
! the time of the sale. This morning |
received this notice: "Send deed:
money in bank to pay full amount of
purchase money; avais of first crop"
This is the kind of contracts [ am max
ing.-J. MacSmith in Fargo On. d. Re-
publican, OcT. 10, 1891.
John Busta threshed 2,147 bushels of
wheat, loo of oats, 825 of barley and
| 100 of millet this week. John thinks
farming pays. and when we figure the
! market value of his crop we agree with
| him.-LidgerwoOd On. D. Broadaxe.
Arthur Edmunds, of Caledonia.
! threshed 10000 bushels of wheat off of
500 acres. He raised in all 20,O06 BUSH
els of grain. Twelve years ago, "when
we were first acQuaint," Arthur was
holding down a clam Of 100 acres
Walsh County On. d. Times.
]. W. dollhouse. of Kelso, Trail
county, bought a 160acre farm last year
for 81, 100. His crop Of wheat this sea-
son sold for nearly $4,000. from which
he paid for his farm, teams. machinery,
etc, and had over $1,000 left after pay
ing all eXpenSes.-Grand Forks On. d.
| Herald.
1t is said that nearly every farmer
now carries check book, and they pay
all of their bills by giving checks on
the banks. They have too much money
to risk anywhere only in a good bank
Wahpcton On. d. Times.
Mr.. SpiIlman, the elevator man at
'VOss, takes the cake for big potatoes
this fall. There is big "Murphy'' in
the Journal sanctum from his garden in
NUSS which tips the scales at five and
one-fourth pounds.-Minto On. D. Jour
nal.
Frank Pitcher has completed thresll-
ing on his homestead and reports a
yield Of {, 400 bushels OF wheat from 65
acres, an average of 81 bushels to the
acre, and 2.99S bushels of oats from 81
acres.-Devips Lake On. D. Inter
Ocean.
r. 3. Warren threshed 149 bushels OF
wheat off from three acres and realized
Sl06.40 for it. 1wenty-siX acres yielded
LISP bushels. John Carpenter cleaned
up 1850 bushels of wheat from 15C
acres, and William Sprague had l 500
bushels of oats on twenty Accessibility
IN. d. GlobeGazette.
Last summer Messrs. Barnum e Rice
of this city, purchased quarter section
of land 4 few miles north of here, the
purchase price being SO per acre, or
$1,000. One hundred acres were pre-
pared for cultivation, and the yield was
thirty-siX bushels per acre, quality No.
l northern. The crop sold for 81, 700
which pays for the land and all eX-
penses, aud leaves tidy sum besides
Mayvilie On. d. Tribune.
John A. Percival threshed an eighty
acre field just east of town, the result
being 2,S22 bushels OF wheat, an aver
age Of 554 bushels to the acre, which
sold for $2,090-S26 an acre. HOw'S that
for crop? lie had the land on shares
furnishing seed and Irvine and paying
half the machine bill. After deductinl
for interest on The cost of the land anC
taxes, his half OF the crop nets him $50