Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-22

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miles northwest of that city and with
a few COWS started farming. Mr..
Hagerott gives his subsequent expert
ence in his own language: Every
thing was awful high priced in those
days and I made some mistakes buy
ing machinery, ETC., till l pretty near
used up what I had saved.
"I believe strongly in mixed farming
and stock raising. There is no reason
why a man who will work, can't make
money here farming unless he loses
his head in some way like buying I'M
necessary machinery, but there is any
amount of good grasses which pays
him to have stock to eat, too, and the
same men can attend to both farming
and stock. Besides he can have straw
stacks for his stock to run to in win
ter when there is snow, and he can
break his horses while making them
farm, haul grain, etc.
81 don't believe there is a place in
the United States l like sc we'll for
my purpose. Besides my claims, l
have bought 32O acres of railroad
lands. I farm 175 acres; have 100 head
of cattle (have, because of good prices,
sold off pretty close), have seventeen
horses; have good comfortable farm
buildings. Have one spring and two
wells of good water; one well twelve
feet deep, one eight feet deep; school
one mile off, church seven miles. Have
good coal on my land, but there is a
six-foot vein opened five miles off from
which I generally haul; cheese factory
four and one-half miles off on Square
Butte creek. 1 wouldn't want a better
country than this to make a living in
and to get along.
81 have every year raised wheat,
my smallest yield being 1883, but
seven bushels; my biggest in 1891,
thirty-two and one-half bushels per
acre, for which I got IS cents. 1t aver
ages about sixteen bushels per acre.
My poorest crop of oats was in 1855
thirteen bushels per acre; best in 1872
sixty bushels to the acre. l consider
corn the surest crop, and when raised
to feed at home the best paying crop
[ a raise. The best kind to raise
here is a smaller kind of corn than is
raised in Missouri, but has lots of
ears to make up for size. Straw here
in the dry climate makes a much bet
ter fodder than in wetter countries.
I find no trouble to sell good horses
we'll broke. Many people don't break
them enough. I get timber from the
Missouri river for building stables,
etc.; sawed lumber costs here $40 a
thousand. There is but about three
or three and a half months on an
average that cattle would not do better
ranging than foddered. Flax pays;
I raised nineteen bushels per acre
three years age. 1t is a healthy coun-
try for man or beast. I am raising
seven children, never lost a child,
never called a doctor.
Mr.. Hagerott's post Office address is
Mandan.
FRANK SCHAFF.
Mr.. Frank Schaff came from the land
of the car and located in the Little
Heart valley, twenty miles south of
Mandan a dozen years age, and thinks
there is no better place for a farm
than North Dakota. He says: Il have
800 acres of government land and 800
acres I bought of the railroad com
pany. All the finest kind of land
down in the valley, while right back
of me is plenty of rough land not
owned by anybody where I cut hay.
II haven't seen any place I like
better. came here from Russia poor
in 1890. Had last summer 800 acres
in crops; 100 acres of it was wheat
sixty acres oats. thirty acres flax, the
rest in corn, potatoes, etc.
Il like stock raising first rate here
and 1 have a good place for it. and viii
in a year or two get some stock. likely
sheep, for my children to attend to
but just now I have all I can do tt
tend to my farm. Water is good; on
well six feet deep, mi sixty-three feet;
school m mile, church two and a hal
miles off. Farming is good enough TO-
me, and 1 haven't heard Of any bette
place than right here"
N. I. VAN WORST.
Mr.. N. l. Van Worst came to Man
dan from Holland, a lad of Is years
and helped his brother, who had
farm and a little stock about twenty
three miles northwest of Mandan Oh
Square Butte creek. II worked in tw,
or three places and at about % year
OF age began for myself, taking
claim e my brother on the sam
creek. Married and have one child
eve any sickness worth calling
doctor for.