The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-26

, tunities. Mohall is another example of
the rapid development of North Da-
kota. 1t is bout one year old and is
town of about seven hundred per-
sons and growing very fast. It is one
of the best shipping points in the west
and has six large elevators, with a
combined capacity of 1000 bushels of
grain.
Corn a Coming Staple.
Corn is coming to be an important
,, crop in this state, and, notwithstand-,
ing the general opinion to the contra.
ry, North Dakota is fully establishing
The yield for 1903 in the state is esti-
mated at 100000 bushels. A large
portion of this is raised in the south
ern part of the state, but it is raised
in nearly every county.
The Indians were raising corn when
the Lewis and Clark expedition ex-
plored North Dakota one hundred years
been raising corn on his farm in Cass
county for thirty-two years. Three
times during this period his corn has
been, damaged by frost before it ma
| tured. He considers it an ordinarily
safe crop: The yield is all the way
On the Dalrymple farm, in Cass coun-
ty, about one thousand acres are plant
ed to corn annually. Mr.. Dalrymple
believes in rotation of crops and uses
corn, oats, millet, barley, ETC., in rota-
ton with wheat SO far as practicable.
He finds corn profitable crop.
Barley and Macaroni.
North Dakota produced over ten mil
lion bushels of barley in 1902, accord
ing to the returns to the county and
state auditor.
The growing macaroni wheat closely
resembles barley, in it's rank growth
and it's boards, but the straw has, on
closer inspection, a more blush cast
than ordinary barley. It grows from
four to nearly FIVE feet high in some
of this wheat is the fact that it ma
lures a week earlier than other varie-
ties of wheat, making it safer. It is
very hardy and is less liable to be af-
fected by frost. The yield is also uni
formly larger than the other varieties
OF wheat in adjoining fields, produced
under like conditions.
North Dakota Grasses.
United States experiment station at
the state agricultural college, says that
North Dakota has a grass area of 49,
100000 acres, capable of producing
each year as much beef as is repre-
sented by half million 3-year-old
steers, allowing twenty five acres to
each animal. These yolkoead together
thus giving an idea Of the immense pro-
ductiveness Of our pastures.
! Professor Waldron also makes the
statement that Of the 5000 or more
species Of grass known to botanists
| about 80 are natives Of this state.
States having more varied vegetable
conditions, like that Of New York, have
no state contains a larger number or
quantity of valuable species.
Stock Raising.
Stock raising in the western part of
the state has been from the first the
important industry. The first to engage
men who were connected with the va.
frious military posts along the Missouri
river at Fort Buford, at Fort Lincoln
and other points, in the seventies The
character Of the land and the sight of
countless buffalo which roamed over
the prairie doubtless convinced them of
the superiority Of that section as a
stock growing country.
j Some of the cattle sent out to the
Indians on the reservations eventually
! found their way to ranges controlled
by white men. Others had small herds
shipped up the Missouri river from
Iowa and other points, and for years
large herds were driven from points
farther south to fatten on the ranges
of the Missouri river country and then
shipped from there to market. In this
way some Of the nonresident stock
men found that cattle did much better
here than farther south, and during
the next few years numerous permanent
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western part of North Dakota, some Of
them representing large capital, and
consisting of large bands Of horses,
cattle and sheep