The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-10-08
LETTER FROM LILLIAN FLEMING.
Tells Of Her Impression of Town and
COr1try in the Great North
State.

mloo hlllldu lellllHP, OI Cledl
Ridge, a former Fulton County
school teacher who could not re-
sist the offer of a nine months
term at 70 bones" month in
North Dakota, writes of her i'm.
preston of her new surround
ings. Editor.
Kenmare is a progress iv e,
growing, enterprising city of a.
bout 1000 inhabitants, on the
main line of the Minneapolis, st.
Paul and Sault Ste. Marie rail-
way, 518 miles northwest of Min
neapolis, in the Deslacs River
Valley, on Deslacs Lake, and is
surrounded by one of the most
fertile and productive farming
sections in the Northwest. Ken
mare derives the name Park
City" from park in the center
of the business section and it is
one of the most beautiful parks
in the State, and would be a cred
it to a city many times the size
of this one which has electric
water works, sewerage,
fire department, cement sid e.
walks, and an active commercial
club. Baptists, Catholics, Metho
dists, Dunkards, Lutherans and
Presbyterians have church e S
here. A $500 high school,
graded schools, and a parochial
school furnish educational facili-
ties.
Small grains are, the principal
cereal production of North Dako-
to, wheat being the chief among
them. Grain is threshed in the
fields by a crew of from twenty
two to twenty-five men furnish
ed by the threshing contractor.
About one dozen men of the crew
are required to haul the bundles
to the thresher in "bundle-wag-
ons." Bundle-wagon drivers get
SS per day for their work, and So
f they furnish the team. He
has, also, a cook car, and employs
me or two women, or a man, to
,ook for the crew. One person
who cooks gets S. to SO a day.
The man who furnishes the crew
provides all cooking utensils and |
he material for cooking with the |
exception of milk and potatoes
which are furnished by the farm
II for whom the threshing is
lone. When the grain is thresh-
ID the straw is burned in the |
ield. Some of the farmers have
he grain hauled directly from
he fl cid to elevators. The
:harge for threshing wheat is
'leven cents a bushel (by meas
rement.) The wheat is light
md will not hold out by weight.
The present crop was damaged
~ drought, hot winds, and black
ust- some fields yielding from
tx to ten bushels per acre. 9th
II grains raised here are; oats,
'arley, and speltz; flax, timothy,
lover, broom grass, and other
anne grasses are grown. Flax
5 usually raised on new ground.
This state does not grow much
ruit, but a great deal is shipped
0 this part from other western
tates. North Dakoto excels in
he quality of potatoes raised, al
hough, very few farmers raise
1ore than needed for home use.
and here is divided into sec
ions; and, as rule, the farms
re very large. Threshing for
his year, is over, and farmers
re ploughing for spring sowing
{ wheat. Riding plows drawn
Y five or six horses, or some
ines by traction engines, are
sed; and, on account of the
loughing, farmers change resi-
ence in the fall, when change is
ecessary.
Lumber is very high in this
tate, and any groves seen are
nose that have been planted.
dwellings, are built very warm. {
Inc lady who has a great many
overs told me that she did not
ave one house plant freeze dur
lg the past sixteen years.
There are 273 consolidated
,hools in this state. The State '
University is at Grand Forks.