Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-24

distance 10 1853 miles. The Northern
Psci6c railroad rates from Adrian to
jamestown, 26.4 miles, 10 six cents also.
South Of Courtney short distance 10
ono Of the prominent landmarks in that
part Of Stutsman county, the huge barn
Of E. F. Horn. The building 10 one
hundred and eighty by sixty-two feet
and is believed to be the largest, without
exception, in the county. In it he has,
overhead, grain bins Of . capacity of
several thousand bushels. Also feed
mill where grain 10 elevated and ground
ss required. Cattle and sheep pens and
horse stalls occupy the ground floor.
Overhead IA large hsymow that will
hold seventy-five or more tons of hay.
Mr.. Horn lost 100 tons or more of hay in
the fire this fell, and he will be under
the necessity Of feeding oats or barley
straw instead with considerable grain
or else materially reduce the number of
head Of stock. Like many others in
that vicinity he was caught by the har-
vest with hsying only partly completed.
The hay In the meadows was punched
up in large wind rows with bucking
pole, and left in that condition until an
opportunity offered after harvest
to put the hay in . place Of safety. No
rslcs have fallen since harvest begun,
and the hay, except being slightly
bleached, was IN excellent condition, as
good a. il it had been in stack. Prairie
fires swept down over these meadows
without warning and thus tons of the
finest hay was swept out of existence.
There were no fire breaks and little or
no obstruction offered to the flames.
Mr.. Horn has a section Of land, about
400 acres Of which are under plow. At
present he does not contemplate turning
over much, if any, ground this fall, and
is undecided az to whether or not he
will crop land summer fsllowed this
year. He had in large acreage Of fax,
the land is seeded to mustard and the
only way that he can eradicate it is by
turning his sheep on the land and let
them pasture it out. If the stubble is
turned under the seed may lay dormant
for years, and future plowings would
bring it to the surface only to reproduce
itself in unlimited quantities.
S. n. Miner, farmer living three
fourths of q mile from the Stutsman
county line in Foster county directly
north of Courtensy, like many others,
has a big crop Of wheat this year. His
grain on $50 acres averaged 80 bushels
per acre. Altogether he had II or IA
thousand bushels of grain, five thousand
of which he had to dump on tho ground
for lack Of gransry room.
Little plowlng has been done in the
county at large because Of the excessive
dry weather, there having been no rain
of consequence that would assist in
plowing since July. The ground has
been baked hard, and plowlng would
only stir up the soil and give the winds
an opportunity to carry 1t away. In the
northern part of the county, along the
lines of the 500 and the jamestown &
Northern branch, where there has been
an unusually large crop yield, the har-
vest has greatly delayed plow1ng, if it
had been possible to do it, and for this
reason, and the dry weather, very little
land will he turned back this fall. This
means great deal of spring blowing
and probably q reduced acreage Of .
greater or less per cent.