Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-02-01
WHAT 4 YEAR BROUGHT FORTH.
North Dakota's Magnificent Contribution to He'
Farmers for 1895-The Greatest Grain
and Stock Region in America.
Information About the Best and Cheapest Land in
the World-.-How 1t Can Be Had-
Facts for New Settlers

| Inc HISJ SeClleIS nave eApel1-
enced the hardships, incident to
! all new countries, but less SO in
North Dakota than in any Of the
western states. The railroad al
ways preceded. or kept pace with
settlements and the markets of
the world are now and always have
been within twenty-four hours of
the farm yard.
The beginning of the second,
and better immigration is now
seen, and this is destined by an un-
alterable law of the race, to be the
population that will place North
Dakota in the very front rank of
wealth producing states, giving
the most returns for the least labor,
and insuring the most lasting and
prosperous civilization of the con-
tinent.
Any one who travels through the
southern states, and observes the
absence of grass, of grain fields, Of
herds of cattle. and compares their
abundance in this Queen of the
northern states, can not but be
forcibly struck with the tremen-
dous advantages we have in sources
Of wealth over the south. In Of
fering new home to the immi-
grant North Dakota gives soil
and climate that develops the
hardest, brainiest, and the most
active and self reliant people, in
the world. It is a home that
stimulates effort, inspires ambi-
ton to get ahead. and rewards
labor in full measure; while the
possibilities Of food production of
the state are fairly beyond CON-
prehension and almost defy math-
ematics to calculate.
| THIS YEARS RECORD.
The great grain crop of 1895,
which has set the world wonder
ing. is an evidence of what North
Dakota can do in ono year. With a
population of about 100000 people
North Dakota farmers have raised
more bushels Of wheat in this one
year than the population Of the
United States, now numbering
67,O00,OO0.
While this years crop in North
Dakota has been an unusally large
one, it simply proves again what
the soil is good for. 1t may be
stated as positive fact that much
of the land, included in reported
Yields, has been under constant
cultivation to wheat in the older
settled portions Of the state, for at
least ten years, much Of it fifteen
years and there are fields in
the oldest settled county of tho
Red river valley, which have been
under cultivation to wheat or other
grain for fifty years. and this without
the application of manure or other
fertilizer. Give us the same at
mospheric conditions next year, or
any year, and the soil will produce
similar yield.
On these "old" lands, that would
have been long ago worn out in an
eastern state, farmers have again
raised this year, as high as SO bu-
shells of wheat to the acre. Of
course this is an exceptional yield
but 35 and 40 bushels are common
averages in wheat. What does
an eastern farmer think of raising,
on 20 acres of ground 5000 bu-
shells of wheat: of harvesting on
100 acres 400 bushels? What Of
one farmer having 1900 bushels
from a quarter section: OF 40 acres
yielding LAO bushels? Three
neighbors in one township with
200 acres each got respectivel ly 6,
200, 5000 and 1000 bushels of
wheat, nearly 10000 from 600
acres. 1t seems like a foolish
yarn or wild rural exaggeration to
make these statements, but they
are facts that can be proven.
Many North Dakota farms in