Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-10-18
THE CROP.

since MONDAY, the weather has
been dry and clear and the IT'S
threshing machines in the county
have been working harder than
ever before, all week. If these
machines get from three to four
weeks of good weather they will
have most of the crop threshed.
Threshers state that a large
machine can thresh SO acres of
flax in a day and. at this rate the
lis machines would thresh $3.50.
acres in one day or 262,5OO acres,
or all the faxin the county in 80
days? Another way to estimate
the length of time necessary to
thresh the crop is this: Under
favorable circumstances, a machine.
can thresh as much as, 1,0W
bushels of flax in a day, OF IT'S 900
for the It's machines in the
county. Cutting this down so
per cent. those machines could
thresh in 30 days, 2,625,OOO
bushels Of fax. There is every
hope, now, that all the crop will be
threshed and the entire population
of this county is feeling more
jubilant than a week ago.
So little grain has been sold,
to date, that it is very hard to get
correct estimates of the yield, but
it is safe to say, as the Inter Ocean
predicted that the fax crop will
average over Is bushels to the
acre, for the entire acreage sown.
And the wheat will average over
20 bushels to the acre, and oats
and barley about so bushels.
Many reports of satisfactory
crop yields have been heard dur
ing the past week. Below we give
the exact figures in a few cases. A
long list might be printed but those
mentioned will serve to demon
strate that at present prices Ram
sey county farm lands afford about
he best investment on earth.
Indeed, based on the crop show
ing of 1901. 500 an acre would not
be an excessive price to pay for
lands capable of producing such
results. This is true, even if the
crop of the county we're taken as
the basis on which to establish the
land value.
Capt. Anderson who lives a short
distance north of Devils Lake,
bought 80 acres of land for $4,000
in May 1900. He broke the land
that summer and cropped it in
1901 with the result that he got
1000 bushels of flax which he
sold for S2o8o.oo. He raised this
year 1900 bushels of flax from one
hundred and fifteen acres making
a total of 100000 or just $1,000
at acre for what he had in. His
wheat has yielded between 25 and
70 bushels to the acre.
MI. F. Price in Bartlett town
ship, a few miles east of here
broke and seeded to flax last
spring eighty acres in the North
west of section 26 in that town.
ship. He has just threshed 1892
bushels of grain which sold for
s1.25 a bushel, a total return of
SI4l5.oo or S16.4o an acre.
MI. George Meikeljohn, living
about 20 miles north of Devils
Lake has 2o4o acres of land. He
had five hundred acres in wheat
this season which yielded him in
dollars s6937.5o or s13.87 an acre.
His wheat went almost.26 bushels
to the acre. He had also 1910
acres in flax; as far as he has
threshed it has yielded him II
bushels an acre which nets him
about $4,000 for that one thous-
and acres. One hundred and sixty
acres of wheat went about thirty
five bushels to the acre. The crop
on his place is worth just $4,000
or $3.50 an acre.
Benjamin Hoy on section II
Royal Township threshed over 20
bushels of flax per ere from his
entire acreage, a return of over
$4,000 an acre.
These are not exceptional fig
ures culled from the whole coun-
tryside but just such returns as
have come to our ears by chance.
When threshlng is owe we ex-
pect to announce the record
breaking yields. They will go be-
yond anything yet noted for this
year.
II have used Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
remedy and find it to be a great