Morris tribune., 1903-04-25
Read About Oliver County, N. =,

amply provided for the education O
the children by giving two sections
of land in each township for this
purpose, School districts are or
ganized. and school houses are built
whenever they are needed; and every
community has it's district school; so
that education is provided for with
the greatest concern in the country
yet somewhat sparsely settled
Whenever there are nine children OF
school age more than two and one
half miles from school, an addition
al school must be provided.
Churches of all denominations are
represented, and religious services
are often conducted in some of the
school houses.
ACTUAL EXPERIENCE OF SET
TIERS.
We print the following letters from
farmers in this section. stating their
actual experience and giving the re-
suits they have obtained with the
great resources of this tract of country
MR.. NJ. N. TRIP.
A 1txyx nj "a fO
Missouri from Germany; didn't like it
there and came to New Medford, Wis,
after two years, where L stayed one year,
and then came here in 1885, still young
man. This struck me as the right place,
and I took a homestead and tree claim
32O-near Crown Butte, fifteen miles north
west from Mandan; started farming and
had few cows. Everything was awful
high priced in those days, and [ made
some mistakes buying machinery, etc.
until pretty near used up what L had
saved.
believe strong in mixed farming and
stock raising. There is no reason why
man who will work can't make money
here farming unless he loses his head in
some way like buying unnecessary ma
chinery, but there is any amount of good
grasses which pays him to have stock to
eat, too, and the same man can attend to
both farming and stock. Besides he can
have strawstacks for his stock to run to
in winter when there is snow, and he can
break his horses while making them
farm, haul grain, etc.
I don't believe there is place in the
United States like so well for my pur-
I, orb
one and one half sections of railroad lands.
farm 200 acres. have l3O head OF cattle
Chave, because of good prices sold off pref
ty c1ose,) have II horses; and good com
Portable farm buildings. 1 have one
spring and two wells of good water; one
well 10 feet deep, and one 50 feet deep.
There is a school one-haf mile off and
church seven miles. / have good coal on
nv land, but there is six foot vain open
ed five miles away from which l general
1y haul There is cheese factory ~
miles off on Square Butte creek.
I have every year raised wheat, my
smallest yield being in 1888. but seven
bushels per acre; my biggest in 1891, thir-
ty-two and one-half bushels per acre. for
which l got Is cents. Last harvest L
threshed $500 bushels of wheat, which
Yielded thirty bushels per acre. Forty
acres of breaking yielded 1,700 bushels of
wheat, by weight. My wheat crop has
me about seventeen bushels per
acre. Ny poorest crop of oats v as in 1883,
thirteen bushels per acre; best in 1892, six
ty bushels to the acre. consider corn
the surest crop, and when raised to feed
at home the best paying crop can raise.
a.. L. Iar &c 1o11 or
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
better fodder than in the wetter countries.
I find no trouble to sell good horses well
broke. Many people don't break them
enough. get timber from the Missouri
river for building stables, etc, native,
sawed lumber costs here up to Sis thous-
and. There is but about three or three
and half months on an average that cat
tie would not do better ranging than fod-
dered.
Flax pays. / raised nineteen bushels
per acre five years ago. This year my
crop of flax amounted to 500 bushels, 1861
bushels of which was from four acres of
old land.
It is healthy country for man or beast.
I am raising seven children. never lost
child, never called a doctor. 1 wouldn't
want better country than this to make
a living in and to get along.
Yours.
Mandan P. o. EDWARD HAGEROTT.
CORN.
In 1900 the Missouri Slope produc-
ed 6 1-3 per cent of the states total
of corn, which percentage
was two and one-halt times as great
as its percentage Of the number of
cultivated acres in the state.
In 1901 this same region yielded
about one-seventh of the states corn
crop, which fraction was four times
as great as its fraction of the states
total of cultivated land.
Oliver county's share of the corn
yield of 1900 was exactly five times
it's share of the total of cultivated