Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-11-01
FROM M. N. TRIP.
Another Interesting Letter About
Oliver County, North Dakota,

Nv dear Mr.. Ross ."
[ am hoping you can visit this
country soon, for am sure that we
have much better country here than
you Tor any one else who has not
seen it, can believe. "The other side
of the Missouri" has been 80 DIES
cribed and actually misrepresented
by the stock men (for the sake of
keeping tho free range") for so
many years, that most people do not
know what this country can do.
o [ am constantly finding out new
and more encouraging facts about
this county. The U S. Weather
Bureau Commission at Bismarck told
my son Harold, when he was down
there the other day, that we can
mature better corn here than they
can in the Red River Valley. Mr.. O..
Fl, Will had 81 busheys ger acre Of
dent corn last year; and the piece he
was hnsking when [ saw him this fall
yields 48 bushels. The commission
said also that the temperature is
several degree higher here than in
the Red River Valley; hot winas do
not touch US here! Last week the flax
on the low lands had not been
touched by frost not even the leaves
were touched.
I have been told of our nice crop
this year, but, the Z. S. Commissioner
told Harold that our rainfall this
year is not up to the average. Our
crop tho is above the average, be-
cause. he said, the weather has been
cloudy and cool and the moisture
has remained in the ground. This
proves that the rainfall here is very
ample. The man who keeps by
thorough cultivation the rain he gets:
realizes the big crops yearly that |
have written you about; the man who
plows his land once in two to four
years-as some do out hereof course
does not secure an average of more
than 10 to Is bushels during Is to 20
years. experience. So, crops this year
with poor farmers are above the
average; with these farmers they are
not at al! exceptional. [ have seen
cattle here this fall, fattened on grass
only, as fat as any cattle | have eyer
seen any place.
Wishing you all kinds of success
in your business, [ am.
Very truly yours,
NJ. n. TRIP.
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