Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1912 — Letter from North Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Letter from North Dakota.

Albert Bouk, a iformer resident of Jasper county and trustee of Walker tp., writes The Democrat from his new home as follows: N. - 'D^'Mclf _ 6. Mr. F. E. Babcock, Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir: Herewith find money order for $2.25 for which please extend my subscription to The Democrat one year and send a copy 6 months to W. M. Brey, Surrey, N. D. Judging from the weather re-, ports in my Chicago dally I should say you have been experiencing a pietty fair sample or a real bad winter in North Dakota. However, we have had no such a winter here this winter, and here let ine say that North Dakota winters are not nearly so dreadful as is generally believed by those who have never been here. This is the closing of my fifth winter here and I can truthfully say that they have been so free of work and worry I am always sorry when they are "gone. Every day is Sunday here tn the winter. | The last two crop seasons have been very unsatisfactory to farmers here and while some had almost complete failures one or both years, { many who follow mixed Or diversified farming and some who did not but were in the most favored localities, have had very satisfactory results both years. As for myself I will say I am well pleased with i results of my farming each of the four years I have farmed here. We' are all learning by hard experience' that exclusive grain farming won’t 1 do, and we are also learning to dur I pleasure and profit that we can 1 raho just as good and better' horses, cows, hogs and poultry here 1 as we could in “God’s country,” as! you put it for Indiana. It is a 1 demonstrated fact that we can, raise corn amid alfalfa, and the farm in Ward Co., without a cornfield and, some alfalfa will be mighty hard to find this very summer-. You may think we live in the land of cheap farms, and I guess it is cheap, only in price which is from $25 to $5,0 per acre. Not I much has changed hands during the 1 last two years in this locality, but' what has sold at above figures. We have reason to look forward to the coming crop season as the' most promising for a number of years, and everybody is making ut-' most efforts to put out a big crop. I The ground is in fine shape, and with the usual amount of rain a 1 good crop is assured. Farm hands' are in good demahd at $35 per J month for the entire season of seven to eight months. A number of steady hands are wanted .right in my neighborhood. I have a neighbor who just recently shipped in a number of per-' cheron mares and stallions, some of them imported and all? full-bloods. I Several car loads of dairy cows are 1 being shipped in, mostly of the 1 Guernsey breed. Farmers are or-' ganizing in every township, and this' means co-operation, and that spells success. * Space is limited so I will close. A. L. BOUK.