Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-10-02
FARMERS
ORGANIZE COLONY
IN BADGER STATE
Have Made Wonderful Record
On Reclaimed Land Allow
No One But Relatives Of
Workers to Inspect Gardens

hundred and seventy-five acres of re-
claimed land, territory which for
many years was nothing but
marshy wilderness in this vicinity,
are today yielding their second rich
harvest Of Chinese and Irish pota-
toes, cabbages, onions, hay, grain
and Chinese vegetables. which are
shipped daily to the restaurants Of
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul and
Minneapolis. And the American
farmers who scoffed at the yellow
men who came here from Chicago
under the backing of Nip Lung and
Toy Jung Of Chicago are beginning
to think that, after all, the Oriental
may have something ION them" when
1T comes to farming land which had
hitherto been regarded as no good.
The colony and the farm are be-
lieved to be the only ones of their
kind in America. The project was the
ambition Of Toy Jung, a Chinaman,
who was graduated from the agricul-
tural school Of the University Of Wis
consin and from Stockton, Calf, po-
tato fields, but he lived barely long
enough to see it we'll under way. Toy
Jung died last year of the influenza
and the colony, which was plunged
into gloom over the loss Of the man
who was at the helm continued the
work successfully, carrying out TO
the letter the detailed plans of the
manager.
The colony today comprises 80
Chinese who live in houses erected
for them near the fields. In this
town they: have large residence at
which visitors are entertained.
Women are not allowed on the
farms. None but relatives of the
workers may be shown over the gar
dens. g5
What are the Chinese crops they
are growing!
That ds something which Amer
leans have not been able to find out;
the Cinnamon preserve their puz-
zled demeanor when questions are
asked, pretend not to understand,
and tell nothing.
That the project is successful is
judged from the amount of farm pro-
duce that is shipped daily from this
station. The 1918 season, the first
one, proved a financial success and
the lands, which had been leased for
a period of five years, we're purchas-
ed outright by Chicago Chinaman.
But the second season, just terminal
ing has been even more successful
than the first.
Farmers around Mather still scoff
to some extent but they are being
converted. Some there are, even to-
day, who will concede that the SIM
pie Chinese method Of twice plowing
the land and narrowing it even unto
the twelfth time, without the use of
fertilizer, can long remain q success.
They insist the advancing years will
take the fertility from the soil rapid
".
There Is report that the farm
may be converted, partly at least,
into a vast celery field next year. It
has been Investigated by experts who
have pronounced it At for that pur-
pose. /
h At any rate the project is the won
der Of the American agricultural ex-
perts who have Investigated and, no
doubt. the years to come may see
many marshy lands reclaimed and
farmed BY the simple Chinese method
which Is being employed os success
fully here 81
PRIN CETON HONORS
CARDINAL MER Ger
Princeton, N. j. Sept. 29.---A
mightier yell than ever greeted any
Victorious hero Of the gridiro,l
echoed over Princeton today when