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with water-pipes, all furnished from three windmills at the river, pumping into 250 and 

 1200-barrel tanks, through one and one-half miles of pipe. Among other modern, and, on 

 such an immense farm, necessary conveniences, we find four miles of telegraph (telephone) 

 wire, leading from the headquarters office to the offices of the different superintendents on 

 the three sub-divisions. 



The railroad station, Fargo, from which the products of the farm are shipped, being on 

 the Red River, this river is used as the channel of communication, and, with a view to cheap 

 carriage for the present, as well as future products, the proprietors have built, and now run 

 their own steamboat, with four barges, and at Fargo have their own elevator, with 50,000 

 bushels capacity, upon a plan that can be enlarged to any needed wants, besides their own 

 freight warehouse. By the aid of the facilities thus made use of, wheat from the farm is 

 landed in the Duluth elevators at eighteen cents per bushel. The steamboat proved a good 

 investment, independent of the benefits arising from the cheapness of transportation of the 

 farm crop, for when not engaged in their own work, it was employed to a profit in regular 

 river trade between Fargo and Winnipeg, Manitoba. 



The first crop, in 1877, from 2,600 acres of wheat, was 62,660 bushels; in 1878, as 

 before stated, from 4,000 acres, was 80,000 bushels, the first an average of 24^ bushels per 

 acre, the second 20 bushels per acre. Prices realized, net, 1877, 95 cents; from 1878 crop not 

 less than 85 cents. Shipment is made direct to the Buffalo or New York markets, saving 

 all the cost of middle-men in handling, which in these quantities is in itself a good profit. 



The superintendent adds From the above you can draw your own conclusions; we are 

 well satisfied with results so far, and will push enlargement as rapidly as we can. &quot;We neither 

 know nor care what other people expect to realize from wheat-farming; at the figures given 

 you, the percentage of gain is so far better than any income we can expect from Eastern 

 investment, that we will not be discouraged even if we occasionally meet with loss of an entire 

 crop; the margins on ordinary average, to say nothing of good years, is large enough to 

 carry a good many losses. &quot; 



The net profits, as estimated by the superintendent of this section was, according to the 

 above authority, $2.50 per acre, and the cost of producing the crop about $8.50 per acre. 



Good business management must, of course, be one of the principal factors in the suc 

 cess of such extensive farming, while it is equally dependent upon the soil and climate being 

 peculiarly adapted to wheat culture. Our space will not admit ^&amp;gt;f an equally extended 

 description of the Case, Cheney, and Alton farms, which, as has been previously stated, form 

 different portions of the famous Dalrymple farm ; but sufficient data has already been given 

 to illustrate the perfect system and magnitude of the enterprise. 



Quiim Farm, Glenn Farm, etc. Dr. Quinn, of California, is reputed to own fifty- 

 five thousand acres of rich grain land, forty-five thousand of which are in cultivation. A 

 leading California paper states that the proprietor, who is one of California s millionaires, 

 keeps twenty ships busy transporting his wheat to England, and that one continuous furrow 

 on this farm is seventeen miles in length. 



A San Francisco correspondent of a leading Philadelphia journal writes as follows 

 respecting the Glenn farm, etc.: &quot;The largest wheat-producer in California is Dr. H. J. 

 Glenn. He was formerly from Monroe County, Missouri. He is a man of great enterprise 

 and energy. His ranch lies in Colusa County, and comprises 60,000 acres, nearly all arable 

 land. He has this year 45,000 acres in wheat, which, at a low calculation, will produce 

 900,000 bushels. His wheat will sell for 85 cents per bushel, or $765,000. 



Another farm in California, owned by Mr. F. A. Schaeffer, of Hamilton, Butt County, is 

 described as containing several ranches, one ranch numbering 2,223 acres of choice land, 240 

 acres of which are devoted to barley, and 1,700 acres to wheat. The average height of the 

 barley in one season is given as four feet and three inches, the heads being remarkably heavy, 



