Show fanning farming in dakota Bro brooklyn bagle yes sir sir resumed the dakota man as the crowd of agriculturists drew back from tho the bar and s seated themselves around the little table yes sir we do things on a rather sizable scale ive seena seen a man on one of our big f farms arms start out antho in tho spring and plow a straight strai glit furrow unil tit fall then he turned around and carry his grub with him asked a brooklyn farmer who raised cabbage on the outskirts no sir they f follow ollow him u up P with a steam hotel and have relays of men to change plows with him we have some big farms up there gentlemen A friend fiend r of mine owned one on which he lie had to give a mortgage and I pledge you my iny word the mortgage was astle due on oil one end before they could get got it recorded at the other you see it was laid off i iu 11 counties there was a murmur of aston astonishment idi and arid the dakota man continued I go got t a letter from front a man wit who iyce iu iti my orchard just before I eft left home and it had been three weeks getting to the dwelling louse though it traveled night and d day ay distances are pretty wide up here there aint they inquired a new utrecht agriculturist I reasonably reasonably relied plied the dakota man mail and the vorst worst of it is it breaks up families so two years years ago I saw whole ra milies prostrated with grief women yelling children howling and dogs barking ane of my men had lis his camp truck packed on seven bur four mule teams and was around d bidding everybody goodbye was he going t asked a man he ile was going half way across the farm to feed the pigs replied the he dakota man did he ever get back to his family it time for him yet returned the dakota gentleman 11 up here there we send young married coup les es to milk the cows and their children bring home tho the milk I understand you have mines up that way ventured a jamaica turnip planter lanter yes es but we only use the quartz for or fencing said the dakota man testing the blade of his knife with his lis thumb preparatory to whetting it t on his boot it pay to crush it because we can make more money on wheat I put in in eighty nine hundred townships last spring how many acres would that bo be we dont count by acres we aunt by townships and counties my yield was on wheat alone and pm im thinking of breaking I up from eighty to a hundred more counties next season how do you get the help belp for I such extensive operations asked I the new utrecht man I oh labor is cheap replied I the dakota man you can get all you want for from 29 to 47 a day in fact I never paid over stift sio 48 Is land cheap no land is high not that it costs anything for it dont but under berthe the lassof laws of the tho territory you have save to take so much or none I cas vas in luck I had a friend in yankton who got ot a bill through he the legislature allowing me square miles I which is the smallest farm there though it is look here said the barkeeper as the eastern husbandmen strolled out in a bunch to consider the statement is all this thing bouye been been telling true certainly responded the western man at least it is a modification of what I saw in a dakota pa per oer that was wrapped around a pair of last night I dont dare to put it as strong as the pr did for no one would believe it you can slate that last roun round dof of drinks and ill pay you in in the morning I live right hero here on myrtle myrtie avenue I 11 11 |