The Dickinson press., 1915-11-20

is wheat, the balance being oats and
barley. Mr.. Wiegum has his own
threshing machine. The wheat at
this farm, a few miles southwest of
Dickinson, averaged almost "a BUSH
els to the acre.
Geo. A. Ames, expert engine man,
finished at the James C. Young
farm recently. He had been out here
about two months, during which time
he plowed and disced 40 acres ready
for seeding in the spring and fin
ished the threshing Of 5000 to 1000
bushels of grain raised at this model
farm the past season.
William, H. w. and Charles David,
R. B. and F. w. Pelton, Ed. Culver,
Geo. Sorber and Russell Lawrence,
living northeast of Dickinson, have
purchased their own engine and
separator. One field of three acres
gave a yield of AZ bushels to the
acre. Thirty bushels was the aver
age for quite a sized field.
Robert Scott and Alfred Swarensen
came in last week in their car from
their ranch, eleven miles northwest
of Oakdale. These gentlemen had a
carload of cattle on the Chicago mar
ket recently and are feeling good
over the sale of their beef. The car
load brought $1,740. Two four-year-
old steers brought them $127 each,
the weight being 1,465 pounds per
head.
Lars Arne of Daglum has a good
deal of satisfaction in the fact that
his wheat will all grade No. 1 this
season. He had 1,430 bushels, ma
chine measure, of wheat from 70
acres of land. His oat crop amounted
to $40 bushels and his flax yielded 10
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Arne finds
that early sown grain gives the best
yields. He has already prepared so
acres for the 1916 crop.
Pat Wright, who is carrying on
the L~iederbach farm, had $40 acres
in crop this year and got fine yields.
Hog raising is an important indus
try on this farm and speltz and corr
are raised for feeding them and they
have the run of a 1O-acre alfalfa
pasture. Mr.. Wright is raising 100
hogs at the present time. The 60
acres of timothy on this place, Mr..
Wright finds, yields more hay than
600 acres Of prairie grass and a lot
of time and labor thrown in. A large
barn is being erected on this farm.
Commissioner John j. Lob has one
of the well-managed farms of the
He has 1000 bushels of his
this years wheat stored in the ele-
vator and 1900 bushels in the home
granary. He had an average of 80
bushels per acre for durum and IS
bushels for bluestem. The 1900
bushels of wheat which he has at
home is clean and will be kept for
seed. Mr.. Lob threshed early and all
the fall his team of fine heavy horses
has been on the gang plow turning
the stubble for next years crop. Mr..
Lob farms we'll and always gets good
results.
A. F. Bartik raised some handsome
winter wheat at his farm ten miles
north of Dickinson. The crop con-
sisted of ten acres, which vas cut the
last of July and gave an average
yield of 16 bushels per acre, machine
1t graded No. 1 and would
sell at the highest market price but
the owner will keep his Turkey Red
for seed. He seeded a field of winter
wheat this year, drilling the grain in
to the stubble. Winter wheat does
we'll as a rule, following a barley crop.
Emil Stransky and son are doing
good work this fall with their new
threshing rig. They will use their
International engine in the spring
for blowing 500 acres, which they
plan on seeding. Mr.. Stransky re-
Gently purchased 100 acres of land, |
making him a total of GAO acres. He
a large barn the past year
and will otherwise improve the place
another season. The planting of trees
one of the things he has in mind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stransky took their
home quarter of land 20 years ago
and at which time there very
few farmers in the neighborhood.
They have a large dairy.
Peter Schmidt was in with a load
If wheat from his farm 7k miles
southeast of the city. The price was
50 1..-1-1 M. C-l-ask 1-1I