Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-12-12
A MODEL FARM.
The Big Darlington & Casey
Grain Ranch.
Yields Of All Kinds of Grain
the Past Season.
Improvement in Farm Methods
Under New Conditions.

trip Saturday evening. He expects to
visit Chicago, New York and Washing
ton, before returning. While absent he
will attend the annual meeting of the
stockholders Of the Carrington & Casey
Land Company. The farming opera
tions this season have been even more
satisfactory, from the point Of produc-
tion, than usual. Thorough work and
good results, is the record on the Car
rington & Casey farms. The office work,
in closing up the years large business,
has kept Mr.. Casey and asslstants busy
for some weeks. Wheat will be raised
more extensively than ever next year,
and the farm now has facilities for q
cheap cost Of production, storage. trans
portation, ETC., whereby wheat can be
grown at ss small cost ss perhaps any
large wheat ranch in the state. Mr..
Casey Is firm believer that wheat rails.
ing will continue to be the best and
chief crop Of North Dakota, as the older
states will eventually abandon trying to
compete with this great natural wheat
belt. He believes wheat is not only to
continue as our staple crop but that
more of it will be raised than ever.
North Dakota is preeminently wheat
state, and will so remain, when others
have dropped from the race.
The business of farming North Dakota
land hns become reduced to an exact sys.
tenn on the Darlington & Casey farms
The best results from different methods
of sowing, plowing, cultivatlng; from
seed and following, and from careful
study of the land itself have been &C.
quired by long experience and expert.
ment. Il is now generally known that
the Darlington & Casey farms are the
model farms for this part of the state. il
not for the entire state. The manage.
| ment has been economical, yet whereve,
/ necessary liberal in the matter Of making
experiments. Experience has been the
constant teacher. The best machinery
is used, and carefully preserved. Nc
new invention to reduce the cost oi
wheat growing long remains untested on
the farm. Every effort has been made
to conform to the new conditions OF low
prices that prevail for agricultural pro-
ducts, and to force the cost Of thorough
farm work below the returns for the
same. 1t is doubtful il any large farm
in North Dakota can present better
record, not even the famous bonanzs
plantations 10 the Red River Valley
Yet good wages are paid for all labor.
This result is due chiefly to the study
and personal efforts Of ex-senator L. R
Casey, assisted by his efficient resident
manager, Mr.. Geo. Palmer.
This season there we're 2,65O acres il
wheat, which averaged 221l bushels pei
acre; 600 acres OF oats that averaged Al
bushels; 1850 acres OF fax that averaged
1O15 bushels, aud 800 acres of barle,
that averaged 81 bushels, besides othel
crops. There we're nearly 10000 bushels
! OF wheat raised on the farm or 100 aver
age carloads; nearly 25O00 bushels o
oats; over $4,000 bushels OF fax, and
nearly 10000 bushels of barley. The
farm produced over 100000 bushels o1
grain, which, il all had been shipped
would heve required over l76 average
freight carloads. to transport to market
and would mean to the railroad comps'
nies over $4,000 in cash for freight from
this one farm. These figures bewlldel
the grain farmers OF the eastern and
middle states, and chow the tremendous
/ possibilities ct North Dakota prairie soil
when properly cultivated. The Alert
has not obtained the figures for the total
| cost per acre OF this seasons crops, but
it is understoon that handsome profit
| is assured at present prices. and in case
the markets advance, even slightly, the
returns for the year will be so satisfac.
tyry as to warrant further extension
of acreage than ls even now contem.
plated.
The total amount under cultivation ie
nearly 5000 acres, an immense area. but
! the coming season this will be increased
by eight or nine hundred acres. Abou,
! oDe-third OF the land is summer-fsliowed
each year. so the soil is kept strong. A
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