Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Lark, North Dak., A-ug. 27, ’l6. Editor of Jasper County Democrat: Enclosed please find check for $3.00 for your paper. We are always glad when it arrives and scan its pages like a big letter from home. We sold our 316 acre farm in Kenosha, Wis., and bought a ranch of 1040 acres at Flasher, N. Dak. We are one and one-half miles from ,a railroad station on the Northern Pacific. I do not like it here, as well as in Wisconsin, but Mr. Reynolds thinks it a place of wonderful opportunities for a young man. We have over 4 0 Holsteins and I 2 horses', five of which are pure bred black Perclieron mares. Have three fine eo-Jts. Had between 350 and 400 acres of small grain, wheat, oats, sppltz and flax. The wheat was almost a failure on account of the black' rust. We had our crop insured afcainst hail, and enough hail came to collect 50 per cent damage, so we will be O. K. The ranch has good barns for horses and cows, silo, sheds and out buildings, but just a homesteader’s shack. So we had to build and are nutting up a seven-room cottage which we expect to get into before wo see any Dakota blizzards. Have had no frost yet and hope it will wait a month yet, but they itay around here we can expect it any time. We are all well and think it% a very healthful country. With regards to you, and all old friends in Jasper. I am, KATHRYN GILMORE REYNOLDS. P. S. —Send paper to Lark, No. Dakota.