Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-09-29
Still Among the
PROSPEROUS Farms

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old friends SO far as hospitality
is concerned, and this is doubly|
true to an Inter-O Ocean man.
spent night in the pleasant
home Of Geo. w. H. Davis and
found him as pleasant host as he |
lis successful farmer. Ia the %
years that he has lived in theI
county lie has accumulated q for
tune. He owns fifteen quarters Of
land. seven Of which constitute his
home farm, and which he farms
himself, the others being rented
to tenants. He has 600 acres Of
wheat which he estimates at col
bushels, 300 acres Of fax which
will yield Is bushels, and 45O
acres Of oats and barley which
will yield 40 and 80 bushels re-
.spectively. Mrs. Davis came from
Chicago to Join her husband q
month after he located, and her
story other early experience would
read like romance. Several
woman we're in the colony which
settled in the immediate. neigh
sborhood, and having little house
work, they spent the time visiting
each other, but in the autumn
after their settlement all the
women left except Mrs. Davis and
she did not see another woman for
nearly six months. She and her
husband remained in spite OF crop
failures in the early days and sas a
result have a home and wealth.
Mr. Davis told me that he had
charge Of a farm in the valley and
also one in the county foran east
ern estate, and that he kept exact
books Of yields of the two and that
the Ramsey county farm produced
from d quarter to5a5 third more than
the other. This proves the value
|of Ramsey county lands. Mr..
DAVIS has remodeled his farm
residence this summer, Joseph
Mckay, a splendid mechanic from
Webster, doing the work.
MS. Erickstad, who came to
this county in 1883, q few months
before most Of the others, and
who prot baby ploWed the first
furroW in Bergen township, has q
$50 acre farm with a good farm
house, and has 225 acres Of wheat
which will yleld % bushels, and
IS acres Of flax which will 90 from
IL to Is bushels. s'ss5 "a
"A few farmers in this part Of
Bergen were not at home, but at
Ed. Lewis [ foand the hired man
who told me Mr.. Lewis owned q
helf section Of land, had about It's
acres Of wheat which will be- aboatI
the average yield for this section
which will not be far from 90
bushels.
George Meiklejohn is known as
the bonanza farmer Of this part Of
the county, and when I visited his
farm { was not even prepared for
an understanding Of its immensely.
He owns 20 quarters Of land. ten
of which constitute his home farm.
He has la00 hundred acres Of
wheat which is yielding from 20
to 20 bushels, threshing operations
being in progress ut the time Of |
my visit. He has 200 aeres Of fax
which will yield 20 bushels, $50
acres Of oats, which will be- good
for go to 60 bushels. the largest
oats crop Il have yet found, and
200 acres Of barley, q part Of which,
has been threshed and yielded 35
bushels. Dinner time on thel
Meikleiohn farm is q rather inter.
esting sight. Nearly sixty head
Of horses are employed on theI
farm. and at this time nearly ifty L
men. and the rushing Of teams tol8
the stables, the gathering OF theI1
men and the hustle and burryII
look like 4 have always imagined 4
an artillery corps would look at theIi
Of q small battle.
" e Haig ID addition 10 hav-
ing q lumber business IN Stark
weather, owns s section of land |
just north Of the Bergen line. Itisil
in charge of I'll. "A. sswartz who Is 4
q splendid xample Of what mani
can do In Ramsey county. Hell
came here seven wears noe, and