Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1904 — From North Dakota. [ARTICLE]

From North Dakota.

Larimore, North Dakota, April 20, 1904. Editor Republican: They have not commenced seeding here yet. There was a big snow storm here the 9th and another the 13th of April. It still freezes a little at night end thaws in the day time. They commenced seeding here last year the 16th of April, but will do well if they get to seeding by the first of May. Land is worth all the way from S2O to $35 to an acre, it depends on where it is located. lamon a wheat ranch. They own and control about six thousand acres of land, and the finest that is out of doors. It is as level as a fljor. Wheat yields from 17 to 50 bushels to the acre, oats 30 to 75 bushels, flax 5 to 20 bushels and also barley, speltz, timothy and the finest climate for garden truck that can be found any where. They run about eight to ten men in the spring and when harvest commences they have 35 men till after thrashing, In cutting time they have 14 binders at work, do most of their plowing by steam, have twelve plows attached to a steam engine and away they go. They plow over 50 acres a day. They have no fences here to deal with, that is where they get ahead of the eastern farmer.

ARTHUR E. HILLING.