Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-03-15
WHEAT STILL
PREDOMINATES
Stock and Dairy Pay Well, But
Grain is Chief Source
of Revenue.

Since the Sheaf took a notion to
print occasional items relating Sue
cessful examples of stock raising and
dairying that came under it's imme-
diate observation, it has had brought
to it's attention that possibly. some Of
our readers were under the impression
that the land about here was played
out for grain raising on the old scale,
which has made the fortune. OF SO
many in..years past.
| We don't want to dodge when we
see a grain farmer coming up the
street, so we have decided to give
those people little publicity also-
first stating that the Sheaf has been
Offering evidence to show that stock
will pay here, not that wheat raising
was a losing proposition.
| There is nothing equals bald
statement OF facts when you have a
story to relate. We will only give d
few. without any expansion, for we
haven't the space for it.. We can get
as many more in half an hour, on
l any street corner, most any day.
$ e. n Morkassel, owns u quarter
E section of land few miles west OF
q town. He rents it on shares. Last
). year S crop yielded as follows: Wheat,
IS % bushels per acre: oats, 65 bushels
g per acre; barley, 81 bushels per acre,
" and fax, Is bushels per acre.
Ia AS there is no waste land on the
2. farms around here. it needs no furth-
er figuring to show that both owner
and renter had something to show
for their summer work szs--zssz
erT Further towards the Red River is
ae Il quarter section farm that J.. 4.
ae Frank purchased last spring as an
10 investment He did not miss his
sh guess very badly this first year, any
1d way. as these figures will show
q There are ls acres in pasture on this
d sowed to mIllet. From the balance
Ew of the quarter they threshed l00t
nd bushels OF wheat. 1900 bushels of
rk oats. and $50 bushels of flax
About a mile and half from towr
sre is half section of land bought by K
sas j. TaraIseth and rented to c.. r
Engelstad in 1903. The renter fur
'ut nished everything and took three
ore quarters OF the crop. Mr.. Engesta'
am never boasts. so he would not ALLOW
he the publication of the actual dollar
SO and cents that came off that farI
ed. that year, but We can give the acre
sad age and the yield and let you hgur
md some. Out OF the 800 acres ther
Or were IS acres summer fallow, 80 acre
hot pasture, TO acres fax. l6 acres oat:
er- and about Lao in wheat. Th
The yield OF wheat, was 1904 bushe
ing 500 bushels OF fax, and s:
bushels of oats. Wheat and til
the sold for over 10 cents per bushel ths
ted wear. it we remember right. Sine
ted then the wheat on tnis farm b;
.Ver averaged l6 bushels to the acre.
parenthesis. we wish to add that NJ
Eng1estad is a successful. stock rails
and his wife one OF the best dail
managers in this section,
ger, AS the preacher says. one more al
Ne we are done. 1t is about Mike Lu
fu- emburg, who rents the Rafferty, far
she west of here. He tells that. in l9
hru he was 5000 in debt. Now he has
his stock and machinery clear, al
has he has d lot of it. Last year
way understand he cleared $1,000 for hil
self Did the owner make anythin
l.st 1T is safe to assume that he did.
a One More. Mr. G.. r. Wood b
told as that he. bought the Jarre
farm. a half sectIon,. in 1903 and
three years his, share of the ere
netted him nearly $1,000.
'usia Still we say that stock will increa
! 81 the grain yields.
tors