People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — ON A 10,000-ACRE FARM. [ARTICLE]

ON A 10,000-ACRE FARM.

World’s Fair Visitors Shown How Wheat Is Harvested in the Northwest. Larimore, N. D., Aug. 80. The world’s fair foreign commissioners visited the 10,000-acre farm of the Elk Valley Farming company, a mile from this eleven-year-old town. At the station the guests were met by M. G. Larimore and his two sons, Walter and Clay, who manage the farm. The procession of carriages drew up in front of forty-two harvesting machines, which passed in review before the distinguished spectators, cutting and binding a 160-acre field of the yellow grain. Each harvester was worked by three mules and a driver, whjJLe a gang of men followed to “shock” the bundles as quickly as thrown out The sight was picturesque and a revelation in agriculture to many of the foreigners. In the afternoon the operation of thrashing was seen with four machines working at once. A prairie chicken lunch was served to the guests in picnic style on the farm under a tent