Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-25

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has tubular well outfit he has test
ed the country thoroughly for water
and says that it is readily found in
. every neighborhood and in an abun-
! dance.
The view of the country Irom this
| farm is fine and when the groves
grow a little larger it is going to be
hard to find a prettier country.
Albert Christensen lives just north
of the school house on an excellent
quarter section that he is improving
we'll, but on account of his wife being
4 partially paralysed, he thinks he will
be compelled to leave the farm. He
! likes the country, and would not.
think of leaving it if his wife's health.
was such that he could stay. 49,.
Charles L. Jones has been in the
4 country about Is months and is get
ting a nice start jim the way of i'm
proving his place. ."
II. S. Finn lives On a nice quarter
| in 22-140-75, which he is well pleas
ed with. He has good house and
barn, and considerable land under the
pillow. When his we'll was put down
the first formation was black soil
16 inches deep, yellow clay 80 feet
and blue clay 95 feet, with no sand or
gravel until the water was struck
which was in sand. The ground is
high and gently rolling. g--',.' .
B. F. Paisley came to this neigh
borhood five year ago from Iowa and
has prospered, but being away from
home he could not be interviewed.
Mrs Gunderson has a homestead
| in 4-140-75 upon which she is making
a support for her family. Her two
sons do most Of the farming.
~ Flax a Money Crop.
George L. Yackey comes from office
work in the state of Iowa to home
stead in North Dakota and is making
a fine farm out of his venture. His
land is rolling, little stony in places
but is rich and Is the best of hay
land. While Mr.. Yackey thinks that
grain farming is very profitable, he
is of the opinion, that with the excep-
ton of flax as a money crop, in or
der to get the most out of the land,
dairying is the most profitable thing
for the settler. Mr.. Yackey is the
ord. The Driscoll team has been very
for an amateur has an unusual rec
ord The Dsico1i team has been very
successful, they having played some
I of the best teams in the country with
} credit to themselves.
4 Bertram Lem, of Lein postoface
has been in North Dakota four years.
He says this country is a good coun-
try with rich soil and great possibi-
lities. That its yield of wheat when
: the methods of farming are consid-
cred is something wonderful and that
If the people of northeastern Iowa,
his old home, should follow as poor
methods of farming as they do here
in Burleigh county, that they would
go broke quick. There is no other
country that can stand as poor work
and grow such crops of small grain
, as this country can. But, accord
ing to his opinion, there is so much
more to be made by good framing
than by slipshod methods that no man
can afford to do any but the best as
soon as his circumstances will per
!, NIT of anything else. ri.
Favors Dry Farming.
J Mr.. Lem says that he has beer
experimenting what he could and that
!, close observation convinces him that
there is more in "dry farming thar
, the people believe. But he think
that about all there is to dry farm
! ing is extra good common sens
farming. That If he had gone int,
, his field with the harrow and KEEP
+ the curst broken on the plowet
. ground while his crops were growing
: this year that his crops would hav
been much better. That while tn
thresher showed a yield of eight bu
sishels of fax that he was sure iron
careful examination that at least on
l. half of it had been ground up in tn
= cylinder from poor management Q
!. the machine. But he thinks tina
y tillage and conservation of the moi.
/ Eture is all that Is necessary for sue
q cess in grain growing. AS an evi
= dence of this he says that in dig
/ ging post holes on the prairie wher
4 the sod had not been broken tina
III a foot or two deep there was moth
! ing but dry dirt but little bette
! than dust and that only a few fee
away in the stubbIe that the subso
was full of moisture and that tn
! difference could come only from th