Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — HOME FROM NO. DAKOTA. [ARTICLE]

HOME FROM NO. DAKOTA.

Frank Welsh and Son Return From Two Weeks Visit in the Northwest. , Frank Welsli and son Merve of Jordan tp., returned yesterday morning from a two weeks visit in North Dakota. They visited Larimore, Castleton, Davenport. Sheldon, Buttzville, Lisbon and Fargo. The best crops were about Larimore, although they have had an excess of rain there and about Davenport, and the black rust will reduce the yield. If the straw would thresh out like it does here the wheat ought to go 23 to 25 bushels per acre. But it will not likely yield that much. Oats are extra good, also potatoes. Oats look like they ought to thresh 50 bushels per acre and potatoes yield 100 to 150 bushels per acre. Corn is also looking, well. j They visited many,former Jas-; per county • people, including.

Bert Welsh, Charles Antcliff, Mrs. Shide and sons, David Harris, Jake Wagner, Wm. Stover, Henry Simonin, Ralph Martin, Henry Hoffman, Albert Beaver, Wr. Dunn, and Bud Hammond. Bud Hammond and sons who are farming together, have out 2,200 acres of wheat, oats, flax and millet, and Bud is one of the big men of Ransom county. They have put about 40 acres of corn and will cut 200 to 300 sons of wild hay. They own two sections of land one section having a fair house, barn 60x89 with cattle shed and stable for 24 head 'of horses and 60 head of cattle. This farm has a grain elevator 20x60 with driveway and dump at side, an artesian 3% inch well that will throw a stream of water 30 feet high, which is piped to hquse and barn. Four threshing outfits were hauling water from this well. Their other section has a good modern house, ordinary barn, and two granaries of 5,000 bushels capacity. They have 100 head of horses, including 25 work teams, two driving teams, 28 coming two-year-old colts and 21 sucking colts. They also have 50 head of cows, yearlings and calves, and 80 head of hogs. They have two threshing outfits, one new this year, 9 binders and 25 farm wagons. Their personal property alone is worth a small fortune. Besides the two sections which they own they rent several hundred acres more land, Bud himself living on a rented section. Mr. Welsh found everyone well and they desired to be remembered to all inquiring friends.