Usually with three horses, but in wet seasons like the recent harvest, four horses are used. The covers are necessary to protect the horses from the sun and mosquitoes. A Straw-pitcher. value of this crop would be what the old fashioned books used to call "a king's ransom." If this crop had to go to mill the old-fashioned way, in two bushel sacks on a mule, the procession would stretch more than halfway from Brooklyn to Buffalo, and would give every man, woman, and child in Oklahoma Territory a mule $2 apiece for the to ride and pay them work if the wheat should find a dollar market. This year's crop of the Red River valley would put all the people in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts on muleback and make a procession clear around the globe and back to the Klondike country. The As a general thing the titles to these great farms lie in the names of individuals. corporation is rarely found operating a farm. Frequently the private partnership exists. Sometimes one of the partners is manager of the farm. But more often the land owners live in the East. Many live in the smaller towns of Pennsylvania and New York. A wellknown farm in North Dakota is owned by three brothers, living in seaboard States. They do not concern themselves with the active management of the farm, but hire a manager who is paid a salary equivalent to that of the superintendent of an important railway division, and upon this manager rests the actual business of the farm-the growing of the product and selling it. worth about $35,000. There are three divisions of the farm, each division having its division superintendent. Upon each division is a large white-washed dining hall and dormitory. In the front of this building is a smoking and loafing room for the men. The beds are clean-better than those in the average American farmhouse. The kitchen is not a large affair, but it is arranged with that nice economy of space which makes the dining-car kitchen on the Pullman train a delight to housewives' eyes. Every kitchen utensil has its place, and two men cooks prepare the meals in it. At each division house there are stables and implement barns. In each division-stable are about one hundred head of horses, and it may be noted in passing that stable hands are employed the year around to look after the horses, and the men who work the horses in the field are never allowed to feed the horses. In the machine - shed upon each division are ten fourhorse ploughs, eight fourhorse drills, half a dozen harrows, and seven binders of the new "right-hand-binding" pattern. There are three steam - motor threshing machines on the place, but except while they are in use they are kept at the division nearest the manager's house. This is all the big machinery. But of course there are wagons, carts, wheel-barrows, and small farm tools in proportion to the number of large machines on the place. A blacksmith's outfit, and a woodworker's shop is maintained on the place the year round. The Engineer. This is his plant: First there is the land -about seven thousand acres of it. The raw land—if there were any raw land in this part of the world-would be worth about $175,000. The improvements are Two elevators, one with a capacity of 40,000 bushels and the other with a capacity of 60,000, are located upon opposite corners of the farm by the railroad track which runs through the great field. A central office, wherein the book-keeper and the manager conduct the business of the farm, is connected with the three division houses and with other important points on the farm by telephone. A handsome modern home is provided for the book-keeper and a comfortable home of an older fashion |