Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-11
$4,000 ACRE FARM
TO BE SLICED Up
HEIRS WILL DIVIDE Biz NORTH
DAKOTA TRkCT
New Holdings, Large In Area by
Eastern Standards, win Be
Laid Out Next Year.

Minneapolis, MINI Tho famous
Dalrympl, farm in Trail and Caa'
counties, North Dakota. sud 70 he
the largest in the world ari known
wherever agriculture On a mammoth
scale is talked Of is ;o disappear
That which remains OF TIE ra3 hold
ings Of Oliver Dalrymale, fiji his day
the greatest farmer in the worIa, COM
.prises $1,000 acres. Ii is to De- cut Ia-
to about 100 small farms 81 lS0 @ a-7
acres.
New holdings, generous enough in
area as farms are measured IN Tie
East, but tiny in comparlso. with the
Parent faria. will be laid ont.
There Will be farmhouse and farm
buildings in every direction, as the
new small farms are taken up, where
now, in winter time, there is Il 4-#@t
unbroken tract thar to IT traveller ut
rail or along country road susses aa
uninhabited country.
Casselton, Valley City. FARGO and
other prosperous North Dakota towns
will be glad to see the biz farm broh-
en- up Time was when these bonanza
farms were a great asset arr the pub
licity that their successful operation
gave to the Northwest al a time when
many people supposed grain could not
probably be raised that far north,
was worth millions. But economically
North Dakota has changed,
Oliver Dalrympla, who was
Scotchman and 4 skilled farmer ope-
rated a 3,Q00-acre farm south Of st.
Paul prior to 1875. That made him
an agriculturist Of some note even
then. In 1875 Oliver Dalrymple and
his brother, William F, Dalympie, be-
came interested in North Dakota
land. They were convinced that it
would raise good crops.
The Dalrymples interested T. e, W.
J. and j. L. Grandin, three brothers OF
Tidioute, Pa, also two Eastern capt.
talists named Cass and Cheney In
all $4,000 acres of land were bought
in period Of tight money, was i7su-
in a period of tight money, was issl-
ing land SCRIPT with stock aud the
land was acquired in this way In part
and partly by direct purchase
There was made from the $4,000
acre holding a number of farms that
were of such size that each was re-
markable in itself. But the Dalrymple
farm was the largest Of any and after
breaking 10000 acres in 1876, MIR.
Dalrymple continued extending until
at one time he had In excess Of $4,000
acres under cultivation
Visitors from every part Of the
United States and many from abroad
came to the farm, at harvest time to
see the wheat. Writer'S for Eastern
publications came to view and do
scribe the farm. Many columns were
written in magazine and Eastern peri.
odicals Of the scale on which opera
tons were conducted. The romance
of the bonanza farmer was written
and rewritten.
For twenty-five consecutive years
, nothing but wheat was raised on the
Dal "ymple farm. But for some years,
pas crop rotation has cen followed.
and the farm has produced vast guam
titles Of tiaX barley, rye. oats, millet
and other crops in the process Of rest.
ing aud restoring the soil and every
year a portion has been laid in sum
mer fallow
Oliver Dalrymple. his name known
in England. France and Germany,
himself a st, Paul resident in the win
ter time and q practical farmer on the
land in spring, summer and harvest
time, died in 1909. There was some
cutting oil Of parcels OF land before
and after his death, bur even after
that had been done his TWO sons. Wil-
lam palympie and J. s Dallymg)e Of
Minneapolis, came into posse hon or
nearly 28 900 acres- Par III tbia + IN