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

old friends SO far as hospitality
lis 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 a host as he |
lis a successful farmer. In the %
years that he has lived in the
county lie has accumulated a 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 a
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
borhood, 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 sin months. She and her
husband remained in spite Of crop
failures in the early days and as a
result have q 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 quarter to third more than
/ ithe other, This proves the value
lof Ramsey county lands, Mr..
DAVIS has remodeled his farm
residence this summer, Joseph
Nc Kay, a splendid mechanic from
Webster. doing the work.
MS. FErickstad, who came to
this county in 1889, q few months
before most of the others, and
who probably ploWed the first
furrow in Bergen township, has a
$50 acre farm with q good farm
house, and has 225 acres Of wheat
which will yield 20 bushels, and
Is acres Of flax which will go from
l2 to l5 bushels. AZ
"A few farmers in this part Of
Bergen were not at home, but at.
Ed. Lewis I found the hired man
who told me Mr.. Lewis owned a
helf section Of land, had about l75.
acres Of wheat which will be aboat
the average yield for this section
which will not be far from 20
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 It's immensity.
He owns 20 quarters Of land, ten
Of which constitute his home farm.
He has 1400 hundred acres Of
wheat which is yielding from 20
to 25 bushels. threshing operations
being in progress at the time Of
my visit He has 200 acres Of flax
which will yield 20 bushels, 150I
acres Of oats, which will be- good
for so to 65 bushels, the largest
oats crop 4 have yet found, and
200 acres Of barley, d part Of which
has been threshed and yielded 35|
bushels. Dinner time on thel
Meiklejohn farm is q rather inter-
sesting sight. Nearly sixty head
of horses are employed on thel
farm, and at this time nearly fifty
men, and the rushing of teams toll
the stables, the gathering Of the,l
mon and the hustle and burryi
look like Z have always imaginedI
an artillery corps would look at theI
opening of d small battle.
W Il. Haig Id add dition to hay-
ing d lumber business iii Stark |
weather, owns a section of landt
just north of the Bergen line. It isl
in charge Of H ]. Al. ssWartz who is I
a splendid example Of what d man
can do ii Ramsey county. HeI
came here seven wears AGO. and