52 LAND AND LABOR. 



New York ; and the whole farm property of the 

 Grandins would furnish sites for five such cities. 

 Whatever else may be said of these operations, they 

 certainly are not wanting in grandeur. 



It was claimed that the yield of wheat on these 

 three farms would not be less than twenty-two bush- 

 els to the acre ; some portions of the fields on the Al- 

 ton farm were the finest I had seen. 



A careful estimate of the cost of wheat growing on 

 the four farms under Mr. Dulrymple's management 

 would show a cost materially less than that given by 

 Mr. Kendall, on the Thompson & Kendall farm, 

 which was $3 24 per acre, land, stock, and tools be- 

 ing given. But calculated on the Thompson & Ken- 

 dall basis of $3 24 per acre of cost, with twenty 

 bushels per acre of yield, at 70 cents per bushel, 

 would give a cost of a little more than 16 cents a 

 bushel, allowing 10 per cent, interest on entire invest- 

 ment and 25 per cent, for wear and tear of tools, and 

 a net profit of $10 76 per acre. This would give a 

 profit on the crop of wheat on the four farms of 

 Nl.T7,763; or for the Grtmdin farm alone, $52,239. 

 The total value of the whole amount of wheat, at 70 

 cents, would be $205,268 ; or for the Grandin farm, 

 $67,970. But the proprietors confidently expect to 

 realize not less than 90 cents a bushel for their wheat, 

 on account of its superiority and the facilities they can 

 command for transportation and storage. They, also, 

 have "special railroad rates." 



Between Fargo and Bismarck, a distance of 194 

 miles, are many farms of the size of thousands of acres 

 that are already under partial cultivation, or are being 



