Green pastures and vast wheat fields : a sketch, historical, descriptive and statistical

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library 2013
• Subjects: Hudson; Hudson Bay
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/3079

FABGO AND CABS COUNTY. 21 Hudson Bay Company is as productive as when the first furrow was turned, over fifty years ago. The subsoil is from three to four feet in depth, a spongy, porous clay marl, and fertile in itself. In the county and vicinity are operated the most extensive wheat farms in the world. The Grandin Brothers have this year seeded no less than 24,000 acres, which may almost be said to be but one vast wheat field without a fence. In harvesting they will employ about five hundred men, with 1,000 horses, upwards of 150 reaping machines and numerous threshing machines. The threshing is done from the shocks in the open field and is seldom interfered with by unfavorable weather. Besides they have a steam-boat of their own of considerable dimensions, and luxuriously fitted up, to convey their employees to and fro and transport their grain to their Fargo elevator, thence to be transported to the mills and to every part of the Union and to Europe. They would doubtless take the prize from the world for the largest and best appointed wheat farm. The Dalrymples have a farm, of which 13,000 acres are in wheat. From these the fields range to the little field of the man who arrived last year in his white-topped prairie schooner, with his all, including wife and per-* haps a half-dozen or more children. Although there is no government land vacant, little more than half has yet been plowed, and an abundance may be had on very moderate terms. Mr. W. W. Warren, the manager of the Grandin Bros.' farm, says the cost of raising a bushel of wheat on that farm, including interest on capital, wear in machinery, wages, incidentals, etc., is a little less than twenty-four cents per bushel. The following table shows the actual result of Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.