. The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . jifiSiS^ !, jj^iiun iisiii 11; r(. ■ . ^ill^i^ill!^;. pq ^ o £ C o 5 1 ^ E Qb u ■^ n. Northern Dakota. 85 age since 1879
. The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . jifiSiS^ !, jj^iiun iisiii 11; r(. ■ . ^ill^i^ill!^;. pq ^ o £ C o 5 1 ^ E Qb u ■^ n. Northern Dakota. 85 age since 1879. The wheat of northern Dakota has no equal for millingpurposes. It is preferred by the great millers at Minneapolis and elsewherethroughout the United States to any other variety, being best adapted tothe modern methods of making flour. It is raised from seed known asScotch Fife, and is graded in market as No. 1, hard, bringing an excess often or fifteen cents per bushel over the soft varieties. Under the new processof manufacture it has been demonstrated that flour produced from hardspring wheat is a far more profitable commodity than that made from win-ter wheat. For example, bakers are able to get 250 pounds of bread froma barrel of flour made from the hard spring wheat, and only 225 poundsfrom the same quantity of flour which is ground out of winter wheat. Prairie Farming.—The cultivation of the soil in a prairie country is,in some of its processes, very different from the methods pursued elsewhere,and has giv
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