Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — FROM NORTH DAKOTA [ARTICLE]

FROM NORTH DAKOTA

Jamestown, No. Dak., Oct. 22. Dear Editor ...Demicrat: —As I haven’t written to the good old Democrat for some time, I will write a few lines. The Hoosiers are well, except my brother Sidney, and he is improving slowly. The wheat crip was very short; the black rust almost ruined it in this locality. Oats were a fair crop; some good corn in North Dakota this year. Sidney has 90 acres that has been estimated at 50 bushels per acre. While we can’t speak very highly of North Dakota as we have had two short crips; we will admit that they have the soil here to raise the crops it thej- could get the season. f The people in general have plenty of food to run their stock through. But it is going to make it pretty hard on some people to get through another. year. As to our condition, I can speak for ourselves only. We have plenty to run us through if nothing worse turns up. We haven’t even given it a thought that we were going to starve. We noticed in The Democrat that some Hoosiers were returning to old Indiana because their wives were homesick.; We just wondered if their husbands hadn’t got “stung” for the reason of their return. The weather is fine, haven’t' had any snow to speak of. Thrashing won’t be over for two or three weeks yet. Roy Scott and James Stanley are running a steam plow outfit, and old farmers here say they never saw a better job than it makes. The boys feel good. The farmers that had flax this year have struck it rich. The yield is extra good. As I fear I will worry your patience, I will close, SAMUEL H. HOLMES.