Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — NORTH DAKOTA LETTER. [ARTICLE]

NORTH DAKOTA LETTER.

Thos. Callaghan Writes Interestingly of His New Home Minot, No. Dak., Sept. 27. Dear Editor and Jasper county friends:— —Enclosed please find the price of our old standby “The Democrat,” for another year. We still enjoy hearing from our old Indiana friends though its well-read col-

umns, and thought that we again would let those who are interested In us N and in ...North Dakota in general, in the same way. I suppose the news of the bumper crop in North Dakota has already been widely spread and I need say no more about it. But I must remark, however, on the bushels to the acre of the various grain. Oats from 75 to 125 per acre; rye from 25 to 40 bushels; barley varies between 50 and 60 bushels; wheat from 18 to 30; and flax, as nearly as I can estimate it, from 14 to 20 bushels. And Potatoes, the potato crop is the largest North Dakota has ever seen, or any other place for that matter. We put in what we thought would yield enough to do us and we 'have just finished selling over 100 bushels we had to spare. All .the garden, truck has yielded an amount of everything, which is simply amazing to see. And the size of all the vegetables mads u«, umused to North Dakota bumper crops, stare at the hugeness of them'. And we do not lack fruit either. Of course we do not raise it here, except such as currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries and the wild grapes, cherries land June berries, but Ithe fruit houses of Minot supply our further deficits at a very reasonable price. We were talking to a former Jasperite the other day, Amiel Scihrader, and he enthusiastically declared that he wouldn’t go back there if they deeded him the best 80 acres in Walker township. But another former Hoosier, A. L. Bouk, went still further, saying that 'he wouldn’t move back there if they deed him the whole of Wlalker township. And if any farmer back there raised what George Nichols has raised this year we would hear (him sing praises of that old Indiana farm, away ouf here on the prairie. Another sign of the golden times on, the prairie are those shown by the Moutz brothers in their good luck. A new threshing outfit, is being bought which would move any ordinary person to stare. Everybody here is still enjoying good health and happiness and we desire to express the hope that out Hoosier friends are doing likewise, hurrahing for Wilson and Marshall with us. ■ ‘ Would like to state that after October 15, 1912, please change the address from Minot to Plaza, No. Dak., as we will then be living in “our little old shack on the claim.” From your old-time friends, Thomas Callaghan and Family.