Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-01-25
$4,000 ACRE FARM
TO Be SLICED UP
HEIRS WILL DIVIDE eI0 NORTH
DAKOTA TRACT
New Holdings, Large In Area ~
Eastern Standards, VIII BE
Laid Out Next Year.

counties. North Dakota. said TO be
the largest In the world and known
wherever agriculture on q mammoth
scale Is talked of. is to disappear.
That which remains OF the great hold
ings'of Oliver Dalrymple. In his day
the greatest farmer In the world. com.
prises $4,000 acres. II is to be cut In.
to about 100 small farms Of 100 to $40
acres.
New holdings. generous enough In
area as farms are measured In the
East. but tiny in comparison with the
parent farm. will be laid out.
There will be farmhouses and farm
buildings in every direction. as the
new small farms are taken up. where
now. in winter time. there lie a vast
unbroken tract that to tn traveller by
rail OF along country road suggesta IN
uninhabited country.
Casselton. Valley City. Fargo and
other prosperous North Dakota towns
viii be glad to see the big farm brok-
en- up. Time was when these bonanza
farms were a great asset anr the pub
licity that their successful operation
gave to the Northwest at time when
many people supposed grain could not
profitably be raised that far north.
was worth millions. But economically
North Dakota has changed.
Oliver Dalrymple. who was
Scotchman and a skilled farmer. ope.
rated a 3.000-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 +. Dairy mple. be-
came interested in North Dakota
land. They were convinced that IL
would raise good crops. -.
The Dalrymples interested &. B.. w.
J. and ]. 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 iasu-
in q period Of tight money. was issl-
ing land script with stock and the
land was acquired in this way In part
and partly by direct purchase.
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. Mr..
Dalrymple continued extending until
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. Writers for Eastern,
publications came to view and de-
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
Dalrymple farm. But for some years.
past crop rotation has been followed.
and the farm has produced vast guam
titles OF fax. barley, rye. oats, millet
and other crops In the process Of rest
ing and 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 st. Paul resident In the win
ter time and practical farmer on the
land in spring, summer and harvest
time. died in 1908. There was some
cutting of of parcels OF land before
and after his death, but even after
that had been done his two sons. WILL
lam Dalrymple and ]. 8. Dalrymple Of
Minneapolis, came Into possession OF
nearly 20 900 acres. Part OF this 10 In
Trail. but the major portion lies in
Cass County.
MY brother and have decided to
give up operating the farm and divide
It into small FARMS" William Dairy.
mpls says. 1T ia better. We think,
that this be done. for many reasons.
And We think It better for North
Dakota.
When my father went into what
then was Dakota Territory. few people
believed that grain could profitably be
grown 90 far North and there was .
very crude conception Of what the
country that we now speak OF as ths
Northwest really was. II was the big
farmer. doing things in a big way. that
woke up the world to what the possi-
bilitfes were. AS q means of publicity
for the Northwest, IL for nothing else.
the big farms were great assets.
, But economic conditions in North
Dakota have changed. The State 10
rich and prosperous. methods of agri-
cultural operation have changed.
everything IL different. It will be bet
ter for the State. for the towns and
cities OF the State and for all the
people interested In the development
of the State to have q great many
ANAL farms In the place OF the one
big farm"
Man Rolls 2,000,0 900 stooIss.
Wheeling, w. va.-Bsnjamin Wits-