The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-07
PROSPERITY STORIES
How the Wealth of the State is Gathered In

Truax Bros, Kermit farmers.
have 2,10O acres OF crop this
season.
Aug. Kruger, OF Burlington.
raised 125 bushels of potatoes
from a half acre.
M. L. Zorn reports II bushels
Of wheat and 20 bushels of oats
as his average yield. His neigh
Dor, Caswell got 10 bushels of
flax.
Steve Voyten threshed 829
bushels of No. / Northern wheat
from 70 acres; 148 bushels of flax
from ten acres, and 625 bushels
Of oats from Is acres.
Jacob Wise, northeast of this
city, will locate in Kansas, and
Tobias Provant will move to
Michigan. Both of these farm
ers "feathered their nests" in
North Dakota and can afford to
go anywhere they like.
S. o. Mcclure raised oats this
year that went IS bushels per
acre. He made ever $4,000 last
year from his farm and as much
this season. Five years a 20 Mr..
Mcclure did not know any more
about farming than hog does
about Latin.
Mrs. u. Renner sold As turkeys
to local butchers this week for IL
cents per pound, getting $48.65
for the lot. She will spend the
money on a trip to California
where she will visit this winter.
The turkeys cost but a mere
trif1e to raise.
Adam Blocker sold his fine half
section farm north of this city
to Moses Wise for $1,000 and will
move to Camden. Ind. his old
home. Mr.. Wise is "a young man
who is making a fortune out of
agriculture in this state. He
came to this state a poor lad six
or seven years ago and worked
by the month on the farm. To-
day he owns a section of land.
VIM. Sayers raised 11,OO0 bu.
Of grain on his DesLacs farm, or
about 5000 bushels more than
he did last year, a good gain for
an off year. He says he made
more money than he did last
year. He cropped 525 acres and
his flax averaged from IA to 20
bushels per acre. His threshing
bill was over $1,000 and he in
tends investing in a a small rig
of his own next year. He intends
to farm still more land next year.
S. Anderson, one of Ward
county's Oldest settlers, left for
the west where he and his wife
will spend several months look
ing up location. Anderson says
that during the Is years he has
lived in North Dakota, the old
state has been good to him, and
now he finds that he can afford
to buy a home in the west, raise
fruit and spend the rest Of his
days in luxury. North Dakota
has put many a man on his feet.
August Kruger, one of Berth
old's wide awake farmers, in
forms the Independent that he
cleared over $1,40O this year,
the first year he has lived in the
state. Il came from Minnesota
year ago and made more here
in one year than l did there in
three. / bought a relinquish-
r1ent for $500, and my boys also
have claims. Ibid all the work
with the assistance of one son. y
A German farmer who bought
a farm near Buffalo a year ago,
for $50 an acre, paid for the
quarter section with this season s
crop and has a surplus Of So, 282.
He seeded the entire farm to
barley, harvested IS bushels per
acre, which he sold for 80 cents
per bushel. The farm cost him
$464O, 50 he has made a good
thing. There is no country in
the wcrld where the farmer has
so good a show of making good
thing as North Dakota. It is
not infrequent that land will pay
for itself in single season.
Chas. Tatman, prosperous
Lynch farmer has sold his per-
sonal property and will go to
West Point, ILL.,, with his family
to spend the winter with his old
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