Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-09-07
AMONG THF FARMERS
OF BURLEIGH COUNTY
Observations Made by Special Represen=
tative of the Bismarck Tribune, who is
Visiting All Parts of the County.

Today Mr. Wilson owns 200 good
productive acres in Section 50, Lincoln
township and like others interviewed,
was for from being discouraged be-
cause of short crops. In fact it ap
pears that the farmers in this section
have the greater part of their land
in corn which will yield a full aver
age crop.
Jacob Swansons.
Just over the hill, as one goes
south from Ft. Lincoln, and nestled
in a grove of cottonwood trees is the
home of Jacob Swanson. In this
man one finds a striking example of
what good management caupled with
persistent industry can secure from
Dakota soil
Mr. Swanson settled on the reser-
vation about twenty-one years ago, his
world possessions consisting of
team of horses and two or three head
Of cattle He mortgaged his horses
prove up his claim and then started
in to make the good soil of same earn
him living. Today he still possesses
the original quarter section and has
purchased six quarter sections in ad-
dition thereto, which cost him $12 900.
Last year Swanson had most of his
land in wheat and realized good crop,
as did others. This year he 800 acres
in corn which will produce about 25
bushels to the acre.
Mr.. Swanson has recently purchased
the Small place for 5000, which ad-
Joins the place where he is now
living
FRANK cAMPAGNA.
!, Franw Campagna is French Can
adian who came to Dakota twenty-five
years ago. and, as he puts it, isn't
broke yet
The Campagna place is we'll known
| by most Bismarck people, their hospi
tality being traditional.
r 1t was here the correspondent stop
) ped for the night In the morning
t when Intervening Mr.. Campagna, he
r said: 81 have probably been lucky
e but / have nearly always had a croI
5 for every one of the twenty-five year
!. have lived on this place and vii
Y have one this year Maybe not a.
5 large as some years, but still enough
t to bring me living.
: Mrs Campagna is lover 6: chick
:. ems and raises a great many. this yeal
g having about 300 fowls.
2 Hayine is at Its Height.
i All the men and boys from all tht
farms are now hard at work in tax
hayfieds The writer went With Mr.
' Campagna down to the bottoms L
d watch the process of stacking hoy
n The hay crop is short; 1t is very spot
S ted and is not evenly distributed
}. causing the yield to fall far short o
what it should be- Last year a s;ril
S from which they cut 120 tons, this yea
S yielded but 80 tons.
J. D. r. McDonald's New PIow.
n Don is the proud possessor of nev
r tangled dish plow. which is the env.
e of his neighbors
s When | rode up he was adjusting
d here and there preparatory to plowin'
It a strip in the morning. 1t has thre
disks. each cutting twelve-inch fur
h row making total of thirty-six In
e ches. A very wide gang will only GU
k twenty-eight inches at best, and pull
r harder.
e Mr.. Mcdonald is another old settle
It who has been here twenty years o
more and has fund of interesting eX
If periences.
5. "The worst blizzard ! ever exper
s. enced," said Mr.. Mcdonald, "was tn
IS winter of 1896 When I woke up tn
morning after Thanksgiving | faile
to see any of my outbuldings abov
+. the snow. not even a hay stack. tha
n day ! started shOveling snow AM
in hardly got a chance to stop before tn
q middle of April, as it showed nearl
,r every day from that time on. Wei
is I had some cattle in a shed and so tur
re neled through to them and got ther
It. out into the corral, where they coul
H. get exercise. One Of the funnies
a. things ever knew happened after the
d. blizzard. l had some hogs in pc
I'd back of the sheds Supposing them
as be dead, paid no attention to thel
ad for over four days, when one day. b
ing on top of the shed heard the